About
Nerissa Tutiven is a native of Northern New Jersey- and a woman on a mission to empower 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, to help evoke, inspire, and guide✨ others through their creative processes.
She is deeply committed to being a story-teller, and visual artist, as well as a guide and creator of inspiring spaces.
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Bio for Press: As a Visual Artist, Nerissa creates illustration and Fine Art, on paper and canvas, and is inspired by her roots as a Latin-American Woman as well as the history of our earth. Her work emulates, joy, expression-, music, mythology, and passion.
With big nods to her contemporaries, Audrey Kawasaki, James Dean, Khalil Gibran, Yuko Shimuzu, and Kay Neilson, she intends to create visual narratives that can be shared and passed down, to the generations to come.
Nerissa is currently seeking studio space to develop her work further.
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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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