About
Ariel is a multidisciplinary artist and photographer based in Toronto. Her practice examines memory, materiality, and perception. Inspired by landscapes and personal histories, her recent textile work considers the window as both subject and metaphor, reflecting on the act of seeing, and tensions between the ephemeral and the permanent.
Ariel has worked in curatorial and educational roles across galleries, museums, and community settings in the GTHA and Montréal. She was a founding member of HAVN (Hamilton Audio Visual Node), an interdisciplinary and experimental arts collective and creator of Soft Serve Pillows. Her practice continues to evolve through explorations of image, touch, and time.
All greetings & inquiries can be sent to: abadershamai@gmail.com
Education
• Toronto Metropolitan University, MA Photographic Preservation and Collections Management (2015-2017)
• McMaster University, BA Art History and Communication Studies (2009-2013)
Selected Group Exhibitions
• Orchid Contemporary, ‘Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most’ (2025)
• HAVN, ‘Nodality’ (2017)
•CONTACT Photography Festival, ‘Darkroom 5.0’ (2016)
• The Black Cat, ‘Salon of Inclusiveness’ (2015)
• Supercrawl Music + Arts Festival, ‘The Cocoon’ (2014)
• Workers Arts & Heritage Centre, ‘Steeltown Views’ (2013)
• HAVN, ‘Manifest’ (2012)
• Temporary Projects, ‘History that Happened or was Dreamed’ (2011)
Publications
•Needlebound Volume 2 (2025)
• Solecism Volumes 1-3 (2017-2019)
Panels, Presentations & Workshops
• Art Gallery of Burlington, ‘Photographing Your Artwork’ (2025)
• Hamilton Artists Inc., ‘Space for Artists: On the Cost of Living Crisis and Disappearing Space’ (2024)
•POP! Montréal Kids Programming, ‘Book Fair, featuring local presses and Tomson Highway’ (2023)
•POP! Montréal Kids Programming, ‘Puppet-making and Mile End Parade’ (2022)
•Centre[3] for Artistic+Social Practice, ‘Chemigram Workshop’
Bibliography
•CBC Arts Online 2020, Can you weave a landscape? A poem? A memory? by Chris Hampton