Education
- BFA, Photography, Bowling Green State University
- MFA, Photography, Ohio University
Marissa Nicole Stewart is a photographic based artist residing in the Midwest. Her practice is based on ideas involving Black families, matriarchal lineage, race, oral history, aging, and health. The root of these ideas takes shape through traditional and experimental storytelling practices.
Marissa’s work has been shown in mosaicARTs Gallery in Fairfax, VA, Ohio University Art Gallery, Southern Ohio Museum, Hopkins Hall Gallery at The Ohio State University, The Neon Heater in Findlay, OH, Praxis Gallery in Minneapolis, Minnesota, East Window Gallery in Boulder, CO. Recent exhibitions include solo show Call Me When You Get Home at Northern Kentucky University as part of FotoFocus, and group show I Was Here at Beeler Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, also apart of FotoFocus.
Stewart’s honors and awards include: an Ohio Art Council ADAP Grant in 2024, Greater Columbus Art Council Grant for Individual Artist in 2023, 1ST place in the Emerging Archives call for entry. She was an Artist in Residence at Columbus Printed Arts in 2023 and has received numerous artist honorariums for public talks/artwork.
Published works including artwork: Of Covid(2024) book, by Humble Arts Foundation and KGP Books.
