Ariana Boussard-Reifel

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Biography

Ariana Boussard-Reifel was raised on a ranch in western Montana by artist parents. She graduated from Carleton College with a BA in Studio Art and a concentration in Political Science.  She completed a post-baccalaureate sculpture residency at VCU where her work moved toward large-scale installation pieces.  Her work is currently on exhibit at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York as well as in a touring museum show through out the Northwest.  When not making art she is running her internet fashion company or renovation her turn of the century brownstone apartment on national television.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• 2003 - B..A. in Studio Art (with distinction), cum laude, Carleton College,Northfield, Minnesota

Selected Museum Shows

• 2009-2010 - Slash: Paper Under the Knife, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
• 2008-2010 - Speaking Volumes, traveling exhibition through The Human Rights Network
• 2003 - Sense of Place, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado

Group Exhibitions

• 2008 - Homegrown, Punch Gallery, Seattle, Washington
• 2007 - Hot Box, Locker Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
• 2007 - Draw, Soo Visual Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• 2004 - Visible Fringe, Calhoun Square Gallery/ Thorp Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• 2004 - Midwest Juried Sculpture Show, Minnetonka Art Center, Wayzata, Minnesota

Fellowships & Awards

• 2007 - Post-Baccalaureate Residency, Virginia Commonwealth University
• 2003 - 2004 - Post-graduate Fellowship, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
• 2003 - I Dismantle, Documentary Performance with Lesley Dill, Northfield, Minnesota
• 2003 - Outstanding Thesis Award, Studio Art, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
• 2002 - Ursula Hemingway Jepson Memorial Award
• 2002 - Hyslop-Warnholtz Grant funding documentary film work

Bibliography

• Time Out New York, “A Humble Material Takes Center Stage as an Artistic Medium,” Jane Harris, January 14, 2010
• The New York Times, “Transforming Paper at the Museum of Arts and Design,”,Karen Rosenberg, October, 19, 2009
• Museum of Arts and Design, “Slash: Paper Under the Knife” (exhibition catalogue), 2009
• PBS, “Montana Focus”, 2008
• Holter Art, “Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate” (exhibition catalogue), 2008
• The Voice, “Point of Entry,” Stephanie Wilber Ashe, 2004
• “Visible Fringe” (documentary film), Peter Avington, 2004