Destiny Arianna (b.1999) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice interrogates themes of identity, land, and cultural memory through the lens of Black and Indigenous experiences. Born and raised in Harlem, NY, and currently based in Dutchess County, she is a citizen and current Tribal Councilor of the Chappaquiddick Tribe of the Wampanoag Indian Nation. Her work functions as both a mode of storytelling and an act of cultural preservation, engaging with historical erasure, personal lineage, and the complexities of contemporary Indigenous and African diasporic existence.
Destiny earned her degree from Bowdoin College, where she studied Art History, Visual Arts, and Africana Studies. Her academic and creative research emerged in response to the systemic absence of BIPOC representation within institutional curricula, a realization that catalyzed her commitment to centering Black and Indigenous narratives in the visual arts. Her thesis critically examined these gaps, solidifying a practice rooted in reclamation and archival intervention.
Working across painting, collage, photography, and installation, Destiny employs material convergence to navigate personal and collective histories. Her work has been exhibited in galleries throughout Poughkeepsie, NY, with her debut solo exhibition, Beauty in Remembrance (2022), on Noepe (Martha’s Vineyard).
Through an interdisciplinary approach, Destiny seeks to disrupt colonial frameworks of representation, constructing visual languages that honor ancestral knowledge, lived experience, and the evolving narratives of her communities.