ariana swei is an artist, educator, and arts worker based in new york. their practice spans sculpture, installation, paper, and production work for live performance.
through play with textured, translucent materials and processes, ariana queers space, blurs boundaries, and disrupts power structures to chase their desire for intimacy.
contactahswei@gmail.com
ariana has learned, worked, taught, and shown artwork at institutions which they refuse to name here. cv/resume available upon request.
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i am proud to be an asian american full of rage. i am a retired horse girl. (i was actually raised by a pack of horses.) the cat pictured above is named bao and i love her very much. i think i experience emotions in a very intense way but i am somehow always wanting more of that. i tend to type in lowercase not for the aesthetic, but because it’s faster. (ok but maybe it’s also for the aesthetic.) when i was a child, i was very shy– they called me “meep” because i would only make noises and not speak real words– but now i’m a real yapper. can you tell that i’m an oversharer? i think i overshare so that i can feel closer with people sooner. i want to be understood and i want to understand you. but some people kinda suck. how often do you get angry? i am proud to be an asian american full of rage. i am a retired horse girl. (i was actually raised by a pack of horses.) the cat pictured above is named bao and i love her very much. i think i experience emotions in a very intense way but i am somehow always wanting more of that. i tend to type in lowercase not for the aesthetic, but because it’s faster. (ok but maybe it’s also for the aesthetic.) when i was a child, i was very shy– they called me “meep” because i would only make noises and not speak real words– but now i’m a real yapper. can you tell that i’m an oversharer? i think i overshare so that i can feel closer with people sooner. i want to be understood and i want to understand you. but some people kinda suck. how often do you get angry?