Arianna Khmelniuk is an experimental artist based in Oakland, CA, and an MFA candidate in Art Practice at UC Berkeley. Her research-based projects, Zapah Lab and Olfactory Playground, explore the application of scent in art and design.

Arianna presented at UC Berkeley, Stanford, Georgia State University, Georgia Tech, SCAD, and MIT. 

Numerous exhibitions have featured Khmelniuk's work, including Collapsense at UC Berkeley's Worth Ryder Gallery (Berkeley, 2024), Sense Bath at Upper Market Gallery (San Francisco, 2023), Asortymentna Kimnata (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, 2023), Controlled Burn at MOCA GA (2019), something missing, something promised at MINT, and Phantoms and Soft Time at Swan Coach House (Atlanta, GA, 2019).

She is the recipient of grants from the Berkeley Center for New Media, the Race and Gender Center at UC Berkeley, the Hughley Fellowship, the Distinguished Fellowship stipend of the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, and others. Having participated in numerous residencies, she has also been published in Olfactive Material Glasgow, and Vogue Ukraine, among other publications.