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