Ariel Klein is an emerging artist based in North Adams, Massachusetts. His diverse and expressive portfolio includes portraits, murals, and collaborative projects. Klein’s work offers expansive and liberal daubs of color, evocative of joyful and bright expressions of hope for the future.

A graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art (BFA 2012), Klein also studied at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Klein’s experience spans set painting for GALA Hispanic Theatre in Washington to crafting hyper-realistic facial prostheses at the Bronx Veteran’s Hospital. He also participated in transforming plywood-covered storefronts in his Inwood neighborhood into murals following George Floyd’s death, later exhibited in The Eclipse Mill Gallery in 2020.

His work is featured on album covers, skateboards, and in the collections of rap artists El Trainn, Ola Runt, and Trill CG. Klein’s United States Marine Band series was created during a year-long residency at Strathmore, with some pieces displayed at the Marine Barracks in Washington. Klein recently helped recreate the mural genius of celebrated AfriCOBRA artist Nelson Stevens in a major restoration project in Springfield, MA.