Artist Bio
Arianna Papai is an Abstract painter currently working and living in Cleveland, OH. Attending the Cleveland Institute of Art pursuing her BFA in Painting. Papai’s work focuses on the exploration of beauty in relation to decay, time, and death. Utilizing dead flowers, textile, dirt, and other mediums to mix into paint or attach within the painting. The paintings are blooming, crumbling, and seemingly creating a strange aerial landscape view of the living and their traces as they pursue their journey in life.
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Education
2021-Present
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibitions
2024
Ready, Set, Relay! Progressive Campus One, Cleveland, OH
Laced With Love, Kelvin Smith Library Gallery, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
2023
100s Show, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2022
Foundation Spring Show, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
100s Show, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Grants and Awards
2021
CIA Merit Scholarship, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Professional Experience
2023
Creativity Works Internship, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH