About
Nerissa Tutiven is a native of New Jersey, with Borinquen and Ecuadorian roots, (her ancestors hailing from Puerto Rico, and Guayaquil) - and is a woman committed to creatively empowering others, during this difficult time on our planet. 💙
Holding a BFA in “Illustration” from the former "University of Arts" Philadelphia- she currently creates Visual Art, and instructional content.
Her mission is to help evoke and inspire Artists’ and Creative Professionals’, to expand more confidently through their creative processes. She is deeply committed to being a storyteller of our time, and an inspiration for younger creatives, interested in the Arts. ✨
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Artist Statement:
As a creative visionary, Nerissa creates illustration and fine art on canvas and paper. She develops her work in a multi-faceted way, utilizing writing, mythology, and modern dance to share her stories. She is deeply inspired by her ancestry as a Latin-American and Multi-Racial Woman- as well as the history of our earth.
Her work emulates, joy, passion, expression-, music, and myth. With gratitude to her influences and contemporaries, Frida Kahlo, Audrey Kawasaki, Autumn Whitehurst Yuko Shimizu, and James Jean, as well as her University of the Arts Colleagues and Professors, she intends to create visual narratives that can be shared and passed down, to the generations to come.
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Past Exhibitions 2016-Current:
“Greenspace Studios” Artist in Residence, Awardee, Union City, NJ 2025 Artist Series,
“The General Store Co-Op” Featured Artist, Dec 2024-Feb 2025, Maplewood, NJ,
“Daughter of Frida” Exhibit, @ “The Cannabosslady” Art Gallery June 2024, + “SOMA Studio Tour” Fall 2023 @ “The Cannaboss Lady”, Maplewood, NJ
“Goddesses’, Our Ancient History” Women’s History Month feature @ “The Cannaboss Lady” Maplewood, March 2023,
Group Exhibit, “A Que, Donde” Cafe, Chelem, Mexico, Yucatan 2022-current.
“Women’s History Month” Exhibit, City Hall 2020, Jersey City, NJ.
“The Divine in Action” Summer Artist Residency Awardee Smush Gallery 2019, 430 Summit Ave, Jersey City, NJ, August 2019.
"Nerieda's Odyssey" 2017, Art House Productions 2017, Jersey City, NJ.
“Nerieda’s Odyssey” Solo Exhibit, “The Factory JC” Heights. January 2016
313 Gallery 2016, 107 Bowers Gallery Curator: Kristin J. DeAngelis 2016, Barrow Mansion 2016 Curator: Maria Ross, JCAST 2016 Pacific Ave Building, (JC Heights), Art as Meditation, Curator: Andrea A. Mortis Vito A Lofts 2017, LITM 2016.
“Modern Illustration” @ The Tiny Green House, Jersey City, JCAST Exhibit, 2015.
Full List available, upon request.
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