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. Her junior year, she completed a semester at the Maryland Institute of Art and Design in Baltimore though the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) Exchange program.

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

Vaeth is a 2018 “Emerging Artist” Mary Nohl Fellow and received the gener8tor Art creative entrepreneurial grant the following year. She also received a 2020 Wisconsin Visual Art Achievement Award. Her fall of 2021 was enriched a love for sewing and life study 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.

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. She taught Interdisciplinary Drawing at Beloit College the spring semester of 2023. Vaeth will be teaching Observational Drawing and Direct Painting at her alma mater fall of 2025.