Scott Alario (American b. 1983) is an artist living and working in Providence, RI. Alario received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2013 and a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in 2006. The majority of his practice consists of photography and is a collaboration with partner Marguerite Keyes and their children Elska and Marco Moon (Mooni). The family works together to stage, perform, and edit the images. This experimental approach includes the use of multiple exposure, color separation, and macro lenses, to document the movement and actions of the young members of his family: “I’m looking for: unseeable squirming, shifting, and growth, arms flailing in ecstasy, or light slowly moving across our walls.”

Group exhibitions include Surface to Air, (curated by RJ Supa) RadiatorArts, Long Island City, NY, 2016, Love 2016 (curated by Rachel Stern), LeRoy Nieman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University, NY, 2016, and Touch the Moon, (curated by Kristen Lorello) Louis B. James, NY, 2014. His work has been discussed in Collector Daily, Time Lightbox, Vice.com, American Photograph, and The New Yorker, among other publications.

In addition to visual artwork, Alario has been a music collaborator with composer Alex Somers since 2004. More recently the two co-scored (with Forest Kelley) the 2019 Oscar-nominated documentary film Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018, directed by RaMell Ross).

His co-score of Hale County This Morning, This Evening was the recipient of the Best Music Score award from the 2018 IDA Documentary Awards. His photographic work received the Winter 2017 TIS books Essential Non-essentials Grant. Alario was a 2013 Critical Mass Finalist and the recipient of a 2012 Fellowship Merit Award from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.

Alario’s artwork  is represented by Kristen Lorello, NY and held in private and public collections including the RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island.