Ariel Davis is an artist living and working in Fort Worth, Texas. Her work reflects on humanity, relationships, and time, in the form of stylized figurative paintings and mixed media works. She earned her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied under Melissa Miller and Dan Sutherland in painting. Primarily a painter and muralist, Davis has been a member of the Fort Worth Art Collective for ten years. Her most notable artistic contributions include: two large-scale paintings commissioned for Globe Life Field by the Texas Rangers Baseball Organization, one of the largest street murals in Texas for the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo 2022 (measuring approximately 600 feet in length), and in 2022 she was selected to create the official artist gift for Paul McCartney to commemorate his only performance in Texas.
Davis has exhibited across the state in Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston, Austin, Nacogdoches, Granbury, and Texarkana in over 35 exhibitions. She has co-organized over 100 art events and exhibitions in the DFW area over the past 4 years through her leadership with Art Tooth, Artspace111, and Artspace111 Consulting partnerships with other organizations. In 2018 she was named Best Fort Worth Artist by Fort Worth Texas Magazine and was Fort Worthian of the month in Feb of 2020, In 2022 she was awarded 40 Under 40 by the Fort Worth Business Press. She co-owned and and managed Love Texas Art Gallery and Studios from 2022-2023.