Ario Elami is a Hudson, New York-based artist, graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts’ graduate program through Tufts University, and a composer and author besides. Elami claims dual citizenship as both an Iranian and North American, and has spent his life growing among the east coast and midwest.

Elami's art mainly explores architecture as visceral and botanical analogy; and the tension between human design and nature on the verge of reclaiming its birthright. This work has developed in tandem with an understanding of the earliest architecture as numinous altars, upon which were laid sacrificial items such as teeth, eggs, skulls, and vertebrae; and a perception of nature as a roiling mass of aggressive life, perpetuating itself through overabundance. In this sense, architecture manifested out of spiritual violence, and was a site for the inner to become externalized.