Arielle Tesoriero (b. 1997) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in New York City. She has exhibited with Steven Zevitas Gallery, New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), The Painting Center, and The Untitled Space. Recently, she was recently awarded the Martha T. Rosen Memorial Scholarship from the Art Students League of New York. In 2022, she received the Kylemore Abbey Artist Residency in Ireland and was named a finalist for the New American Paintings Emerging Artist Grant. Her work has been featured in publications including New American Paintings and The Untitled Magazine. Tesoriero has exhibited across the United States and internationally, and holds an MFA from the New York Academy of Art.

Growing up, Tesoriero became fascinated by the relationship between the body and food within culture and art history. She observed women around her, including herself, constantly being consumed by others while simultaneously consuming themselves. This led her to become obsessed with cake as a symbol within her work. Cake is made to be looked at, desired, and ultimately destroyed, much like the ways memory, fantasy, and identity are constructed and projected. Influenced by the abject and surrealism, Tesoriero creates figures that are melted, sliced, and reconstructed, reflecting the ways perception can physically reshape the body. Through a combination of hand sculpting, life casting, and layered materials such as resin, silicone, wax, spray foam, and found objects, she uses both artificial and bodily materials to explore the relationships between subject and commodity, body and object, and attraction and disgust. Drawing inspiration from artists such as David Altmejd and Meret Oppenheim, Tesoriero transforms familiar symbols of femininity into unsettling, psychologically charged forms. Her work questions what it means to be looked at, consumed, and reshaped by the expectations of others.