Ariel’s work addresses the physicality, indexicality, and limitations of photography . She draws upon photographic tools and processes to make photographs, sculptures, and installations. She has exhibited work nationally and internationally including at the University of New Mexico Art Museum, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 516 Arts, SRO Photo Gallery, Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, and in the Pingyao International Photography Festival. She was recently awarded a 2025 Utah Artist Fellowship from Utah Division of Arts and Museums, named on Silver Eye Center for Photography’s national 2023 Silver List, and offered the Joan C. Edwards Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Arts Award from Marshall University. Her ongoing project, from where the sun is…, is a collaboration with artist Matt Kowal, and has received a Project Grant from the Salt Lake City Art’s Council and a Juror’s award within the 2025 Utah Statewide Annual Exhibition. Ariel holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of New Mexico and a BA in Studio Arts from Willamette University. She is currently based in Salt Lake City where she is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Weber State University and an Artist-in-Residence at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art.