Ariel Ruby (b. Hobart 1993) is an Australian/Italian interdisciplinary artist working across video, sculpture, and installation. Her work explores storytelling, ritual, and memory through tactile and digital means. Ariel’s multimedia practice employs practical effects, projection mapping, stop-motion, and still-life techniques, with sculptural and video processes continually informing one another.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Feast for the Eyes, Food for the Gods, Kaohsiung Taiwan, 2025The Italian Museum: Nonna’s House, Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, Sydney NSW, 2025
The Ripple Effect, Penny Contemporary, Hobart TAS, 2023
The Jellyball Effect, Soulangh Cultural Park, Tainan TWN, 2023
Crystal Castles, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney NSW 2021
Among stone and stars, Rosny Farm, The Barn, Hobart TAS 2021
All The Things (with Jacob Leary), Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart TAS, 2019
A Real Ruby (solo show), Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart TAS, 2019. 

Selected Group Exhibitions

Floorislava, Tiles Lewisham, Sydney NSW, 2024
In Bloom, Saywell Gallery, Sydney NSW, 2024
Global Gambits and Playful Revisions, Art space on the concourse, Willoughby Council, Sydney NSW, 2024
Home, Saywell Gallery, Sydney NSW, 2023
Exploration 2020, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne VIC, 2020
The Fun Room, Wangaratta Regional Gallery, Wangarrata VIC, 2020
Mermaids in the Basement, Good Grief Studios, Hobart TAS, 2019
Dear Kunanyi (group show), Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart TAS, 2018
Subterrain: The Organic Sublime, (with Jacob Leary) Flinders Lane Gallery pop-up at Collins Place Gallery, Melbourne VIC, 2018
Liquidity (with Jacob Leary), Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne VIC, 2018 
Shrines (group show), Visual Bulk, Hobart TAS, 2018
Shit Talk/RealTalk, 107 Projects, window box, Redfern NSW, 2017.

Prizes

Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, 2024
Burwood Art Prize, Burwood NSW, 2023
York Botanic Art Prize, Gallery152, York WA, 2020
Arts in the Valley, Kangaroo Valley NSW, 2020
The Henry Jones Prize, Hobart TAS, 2019
Tasmanian Portraiture Prize, TAS, 2019
Womens Art Prize, RANT Arts, TAS, 2019
Tasmanian Portraiture Prize, Winner Sponsors Choice Award (acquisitive), TAS, 2018
Womens Art Prize, RANT Arts, TAS, 2017.

Festivals and screenings

Melbourne Fringe, Entangled Worlds, Collingwood Yards, Melbourne, VIC, 2025
Now or Never, Intraconnection, Federation Square, Melbourne, VIC 2025
Bunjil Place, Art After Dark, Melbourne, VIC 2025
Lightwave Festival, Turrakana Tasman Arts, Nubeena TAS, 2025
The Jellyball Effect, Adelaide Festival Centre, external screens, 2024
Project Forward 2047, Chiang Mai Thailand, 2024
Lightwave,  Turrakana Tasman Arts, Nubeena TAS, 2023
Project Forward 2047, Inner West Fest, NSW 2022
Flora (July) and Atlantis (Oct), Adelaide Festival Centre, external screens, 2019
The Loop, digital art platform, Flora, Hobart TAS, 2019
West Projections, Nonna’s House, Melbourne VIC, 2019
Is This Art, dLux Media Arts, Artereal Gallery, Sydney NSW 2015.

Public Art Projects

Fantality, Arts Tasmania, Riverside High School, Vinyl imagery applied to glass, Launceston TAS, 2020

Residencies

K.A.T. Sugar Refinery Artist Village, Artist in residence, Kaohsiung TWN, 2025
Centre for Projection Art, Artist in residence, Melbourne VIC 2025
Soulangh Cultural Park, Artist in residence, Tainan TWN, 2023.

Publications

Art Guide AU, Exhibition feature, Nov/Dec 2023 edition
Aesthetica Magazine, Artist listing, Issue 94 Apr/May 2020 
Hag Mag, Photography feature, Issue #2 Oct 2020
I’m Not Sorry, UTS Women’s Collective Magazine, Inner covers and artist feature, 2017/18 edition.

Education

BA Visual Communications - University of Technology Sydney, 2013-15.
Hons Fine Arts (Sculpture) - University of Tasmania, 2017.