About
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. His photographs have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions internationally.
For his most recently completed project Louisiana Trail Riders, he was the recipient of 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 named the 2018 Louisiana State Fellow. The photographs have been exhibited nationally, and a monograph of the work is available from UL Press (2018). The book has been featured in the Paris Review, U.S. News and World Report, Oxford American, among other publications. To learn more about Louisiana Trail Riders, please visit: www.LouisianaTrailRiders.com
His current project, The Fourth Estate features newspaper offices across his home state of Kansas.
Ariaz is a Professor at Louisiana State University.
Contact
JeremiahAriaz@mac.com
GALLERIES:
Zeitgeist Gallery | 516 Hagen Street #100 | Nashville, TN 37203 | http://zeitgeist-art.com
Baton Rouge Gallery |1515 Dalrymple Dr, Baton Rouge, LA 70808 |https://www.batonrougegallery.org