Ariana Vaeth is a Baltimore-raised artist focused on contemporary narrative through the self-portrait. Her work presents an entanglement of tender interactions between friends, family, and chosen-family.

Vaeth received her undergraduate degree from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, and she teaches Interdisciplinary Drawing at Beloit College.

She’s had solo exhibitions at the Miller Art Museum in Door County and at the Lynden and Haggerty Museums in Milwaukee.

Vaeth is a 2018 “Emerging Artist” Mary Nohl Fellow and received the gener8tor Art creative entrepreneurial grant. She also received a 2020 Wisconsin Visual Art Achievement Award and spent fall of 2021 in Door County at the Al & Mickey Quinlan studio and housing residency.

As part of a collaboration between Pigment International & Ayzha Fine Arts, Vaeth exhibited at EXPO Chicago 2022.

Her work will be on display for the Trout Museum of Art’s Art is Her series in Appleton in late-February 2023, and her next scheduled solo exhibition (curated by Stephanie Trenchard & Jeremy Popelka) will be in the Fall of 2023 at SŌMI Gallery in Door County.

Vaeth is currently the Artist-in-Residence at Ayzha Fine Arts Gallery—a program developed by gallerist and 2022 Milwaukee Arts Board: Friend of the Arts awardee Cynthia Henry.