Mariel Harari is an interdisciplinary artist working in fiber art, biomaterial, sculpture, drawing, installation, photography, performance and video. Grounded in laborious processes and bright, tactile surfaces, her work explores how human made structures impact organic beings. Harari draws parallels between the effect of memory and built environment on emotional and physical capacity.

Harari layers hand painted fabrics, draws on tracing paper, prints photographs on sheer silk and creates translucent encasements with Alganyl, a bio-textile that she cooks and sews in her studio. She hangs sculptures from thin strands of thread and hand crocheted wire. The range of opacities, multifaceted surfaces and tenuous suspension speak to the malleability of recall and how elements make up and inform present conditions.

Harari is a recipient of the Chicago Cultural Affairs and Special Events Individual Artists Program grant. She has attended residencies at Chicago Artists Coalition (CAC), Annas Projects, High Concept Labs, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been featured in publications including Brooklyn Magazine, Sixty Inches From Center and Surface Design Association. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Co-Prosperity, Northeastern Illinois University and Ignition Project Space as well as group shows at Hangaram Art Museum in Seoul, CAC, MDW Fair, and Comfort Station. Harari was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY and currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.