Ariel Basson Freiberg is a Boston-based painter whose work explores the accelerators and brakes of sexuality through the body and gestures. Born in Texas of Iraqi/Israeli background, she has a MFA in painting from Boston University and a BA from Smith College. She is represented by Abigail Ogilvy Gallery in Boston. She has had multiple solo and group shows and including exhibitions at Faction Art Projects, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Samson Projects, Dartmouth College, Tufts Art Gallery, Northeastern University, Danforth Museum, Montserrat College of Art and the Art Center of Macedonia.
Her work is reviewed in ARTnews, Boston Globe, Big Red and Shiny, and featured in Modern Painters for the Tenot Foundation Bursary for the residency, Camac in France. In addition, performance and installation, Love Like Salt, was exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in June 2017. In December 2017, Ariel completed a large-scale installation commission, Ziv, for the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Jewish Arts Collaborative. In 2019, Ariel was an artist in resident at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA) the summer of 2019. While at Mass MoCA, she collaborated with the School of Dance at Jacob’s Pillow. Ariel is an inspired collaborator and educator. Ariel is currently a Professor and Coordinator of the Post-Baccalaureate Studio Art Program at Brandeis University.