Ariel Dizon Barish was born in Riverside, California in 2002. She graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a BA in Art in 2024, where she was awarded the William Hyde and Susan Benteen Irwin Scholarship and earned Phi Beta Kappa membership. She graduated from Idyllwild Arts Academy High School, an international arts boarding school, in 2020 as a Visual Arts major. Her work has been shown at Idyllwild Arts Parks Exhibition Center, the Riverside Community Arts Association Gallery, the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, Kookmin University in Korea, and the Eduardo Carrillo Gallery. In addition, she was cast as the lead in UC Santa Cruz’s Arts Division Dean Celine Parreñas Shimizu’s film “So To Speak“, where her artwork is heavily featured. She strives to explore femininity in the context of her mixed-race heritage through her work, which mainly consists of oil paintings and woodcut reduction prints.
