Ari is a Two Spirit, cultural practitioner, interdisciplinary artist, work ranges from photography and collage to performance art. On the faculty of URI and Montserrat College of Art. Graduated with Honors in Fine Arts at Brandeis University, awarded the Rosland W. Levine Award. Earned his MA in Art and Education Columbia, MFA Hoffberger School of Painting, MICA. Pursued a studio practice committed to challenging the canon. Curated Black Futures at HallSpace Gallery in Boston MA 2023 and Material Matters at The Jamestown Arts Center in 2024.

Persuasions, a mid-career retrospective exhibition, was presented at the BCA. Residencies include four Yaddo Fellowships, the Art Matters Inc. NYC Artist Fellowship, Skowhegan residency and a VT Studio Center Grant. Dune Shack Residency Cape Cod MA in 2019 and a Blue Mountain Residency NY. Received 2 Connecticut Commission Arts grants, NEA Artist Fellowship, the New England Foundation, Art Matters Grant and two Pollock Krasner Foundation International Grants, In 2020 recipient of A.R.T. Grant Berkshire Foundation.

Representation Yezerski Gallery Boston, affiliated with June Kelly Gallery NYC. In the collections of the RISD Museum, Chrysler Museum, Fitchburg Art Museum DeCordova Museum, Taft Museum, Scottsdale Arts Center, Visual Artists Fellowship Archive Smithsonian Institution’s NMAA and the Haas Family Arts Library Yale among others. A 2023 recent acquisition at Rose Art Museum Brandeis. Fellow Brown University’s (CSREA) Center for Study of Race and Ethnicity in America for 2020-21.