jeremiah ariaz
Jeremiah Ariaz received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and MFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His photographs examine the constructs of American identity within personal, community, and political contexts.
Ariaz is a recipient of numerous awards and grants, including an ATLAS grant, the Michael P. Smith Award for Documentary Photography from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the 2018 South Arts Finalist Prize and he was named the 2018 Louisiana State Fellow. His photographs have been featured in publications including Oxford American, The Paris Review and The New York Times. His writing has been published in the Symphony in the Flint Hills Field Journal, Southern Cultures and The Washington Post.
His photographs have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions internationally, including venues such as the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans, LA), Lawndale Art Center (Houston, TX), Des Moines Art Center (Des Moines, IA), Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus, GA), Museum of Contemporary Art (Jacksonville, FL), the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University (Durham, NC), Zeitgeist Gallery (Nashville, TN), Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art (Manhattan, KS), the Acadiana Center For The Arts (Lafayette, LA), Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN), B Gallery (Rome, Italy), Photographic Gallery (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico) The Foreign Correspondents’ Club (Hong Kong, China).
A monograph of his photographs, Louisiana Trail Riders (2018) is available from UL Press. His most recent publication, The Kansas Mirror: The Fourth Estate in the Heart of America (2023) features newspaper offices across his home state. He has been a professor of art at Louisiana State University since 2006.
Artist Member since 2020
Bachelors of Fine Arts, Kansas City Art Institute
Masters of Fine Arts, State University of New York at Buffalo
current works: Talking hard travelling battleground blues, verse ii
previous works: Talking hard traveling battleground blues, verse i
archival color print
24" x 30"