Ariel Baron-Robbins holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of South Florida and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Mississippi. She currently serves as a Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor at Florida International University and Curator-in-Residence at Lynn University. As an artist, Baron-Robbins maintains an interdisciplinary practice specializing in Digital Media and Drawing. A significant part of her long-term work involves evolving video drawings, a practice she initiated in 2008 which adapts over time. Her practice also includes site-specific and long-term durational projects that explore repetition and the artist's process. A recent site-specific piece at MIFA Miami in 2024 was a repeat of previous works from 2015 and 2008. Baron-Robbins' work conceptually explores the artistic process as a repeated effort, world building, feedback loops, and impossibility. She views the role of the artist as making impractical visions tangible in some form, referencing Lawrence Lek. Her work has been exhibited in various solo and group shows, including solo exhibitions Cycles at MIFA Miami in 2024, Tabla Rasa in Hudson, NY in 2010, and from 2013–2016 in Leavenworth, KS. Her artwork is held in collections such as the Lynn University NFT Museum and the MUD Foundation. She has also participated in artist residencies including La Maison Verte in France, ArtCenter South Florida, and Vermont Studio Center.

With over a decade of teaching experience, starting digital art classes at Florida Atlantic University in 2011, Baron-Robbins has taught at institutions including Miami Dade College, Broward College, Florida International University, Hillsborough Community College, and the University of South Florida. Her teaching spans digital art, video art, and animation, focusing on the role of animation within the contemporary fine art world and its evolution in the post-internet era. Her pedagogical approach emphasizes bridging technology and fine art and encourages students to utilize new technologies to create work that reflects and interrogates contemporary society, employing methods such as self-directed learning, peer teaching, and constructivist approaches. A key aspect of her teaching involves integrating art and emerging technologies, including AI, NFTs, AR, and the metaverse, guiding students to use tools like generative AI for creative exploration and critical analysis while understanding the nuances of AI training and its outputs. She teaches about the difference between various visual AI models and the new terrain for formalism and style, emphasizing innovation over regurgitation. Baron-Robbins views AI as a tool that can level the playing field and make students more competitive, adding "members" to their creative team. She incorporates interdisciplinary collaboration, such as the AR Mural Project with Graphic Design students, integrating augmented reality using AR applications. She also focuses on developing student skills through critiques and understanding why feedback is so important to their process.

Beyond her teaching and personal studio work, Baron-Robbins is deeply engaged in the art community. Concurrently to her other roles, she is also the founder and director of Loop Art Critique, an artwork she began in 2022 which has evolved into an experimental art community space in the Onland.io metaverse. She also plays a role at The MUD Foundation, a non-profit arts space, and serves as a member of both the Chairman’s Council and the Acquisitions Committee at ICA Miami. As Curator-in-Residence at Lynn University, she has curated several exhibitions at the Lynn University NFT Museum, including Variations with Robert Stratton (aka Madubutter), Screen Deep, The Present is Everything, and For A Limited Time with Siebren Versteeg and ARSNL Arts, and led panel talks such as What to Call Digital Art, Now? with Carla Gannis, Doreen Rios, and Dr. Nava Dushi. Outside Loop and Lynn, she curated the solo exhibition Demolition at Drift Curator’s Space with artist Peng Zhou. Baron-Robbins is a frequent participant in panels and podcasts discussing the intersections of art and technology, such as AI, NFTs, AR, and the metaverse, and has been featured in forums like the Techspressionist Salon.