2025 Utah Artist Fellow

Ariel’s been named one of the 2025 Utah Artist Fellows, awarded by the Utah Division of Arts & Museums, juried by Lana Meador, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the San Antonio Museum of Art.

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Juror’s Statement:

Ariel C. Wilson’s lens-based practice questions the indexicality of photography in works that examine the medium’s inherent limitations. Wilson’s recent body of work focuses on the natural world. In images of sunsets, the expansive landscape of the American West, and self-proclaimed “bad moon photos,” she reflects on the complexity of visual culture today. In contrast to the sharp focus historically valued in landscape photography, Wilson embraces the low-resolution imagery of cell phones and webcams to consider our mediated experiences with the environment.