Nyssa Juneau
Nyssa Juneau is a studio artist whose practice includes painting, drawing, and small sculpture. Juneau studied painting at Louisiana State University, sculptural drawing installations with Phyllis Bramson at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado, and Interactive programming at Rice University, later using that knowledge to create an interactive geometrical program for her solo exhibition, “Three Sides to Every Story.” In 2015 she was a Rice University Authors, Editors, Composers, and Artists Honoree. In 2018, Juneau exhibited paintings in the exhibition Mythologies Louisianaises at Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans. The exhibition catalog is in the collections of Rice University, Louisiana State University, and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris. These paintings were shown again most recently in a year-long exhibition at the Capitol Park Museum in Baton Rouge, a division of the Louisiana State Museum. In 2023 and 2024, she created The Send Nudes Project in partnership with Art League Houston in Texas, with the goal of re-engaging with the figurative tradition for a 21st century public. This project received extensive coverage in Texas Monthly, a publication with a monthly circulation of ~250,000. Before moving to New York to pursue a MFA at SUNY-Purchase, Juneau completed a residency in stone lithography as an artist-in-residence at The Printing Museum in Houston, TX.