Ariana Swei

Ariana Swei (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and organizer based in New York. Their visual arts practice queers space by blurring boundaries and disrupting power structures. Ariana’s work interrogates how systems such as racism, imperialism, and the patriarchy converge to impede and complicate what could be beautiful, intimate connections. Drawn to highly tactile materials and playful processes, Ariana often works experimentally with fabric, food scraps, found objects, and handmade paper.

Ariana’s art, teaching, and organizing practices are motivated by their grief and rage in response to personal and systemic injustices, as well as their desire for a softer, more interconnected world.