About

Jeremiah Ariaz is a photographer whose long-term projects examine the constructs of American identity within personal and political contexts. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Robert Frank Foundation Fellowship, an ATLAS grant, the Michael P. Smith Award for Documentary Photography from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, a Louisiana State Fellowship and the South Arts Finalist Prize. He received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and MFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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 Kansas Field Journal, Southern Cultures and The Washington Post.

His photographs have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions internationally.

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.