RESUME

Marissa Delano (b.1991) is a self-taught artist and writer based in New York. She holds a B.A. in Literature from Hunter College. Recent exhibitions include THIRD BORN (MX, 2025,) MEGA Art Fair (IT, 2025,) The Salon by NADA & The Community (FR, 2024,) NADA House (NY, 2024,)  NADA Foreland (NY, 2023,) P.A.D. (NY, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018,) Walter’s (NY, 2021,) Department of Reflection (Miami, 2021,) Plank Road (NY, 2020,) New Museum’s New INC (NY, 2020,) Special Special (NY, 2020,) Serving the People (NY, 2020,) and 182 Ave. C (NY, 2019.) Recently, her work was included in Amant's publication On Education. 

Her writing has appeared in Topical Cream and Serving the People’s blog. In 2017 she founded Big Fat Baby (BFB) as an outlet for collaboration across divergent creative practices.

EDUCATION

2017 New Media, The International Center of Photography (ICP) New York, NY
2015 B.A. in Literature, Hunter College, New York, NY

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2026 Spill 180, Brooklyn, NY forthcoming
2025 TD Spotlight at NADA, Spill180, Miami, FL
2025 Depraved Family!!!!!, THIRD BORN, Mexico City, (MX)
2025 MEGA Art Fair, Milan (IT)
2024 Double Plaisir, The Salon by NADA & The Community, Paris (FR) GROUP EXHIBITIONS

GROUP EXHIBTIONS

2027 Amant, Brooklyn, NY forthcoming
2026 Window Fourteen, Geneva (CH) forthcoming
2026 Twenty First Century Occupational Adjustments & Considerations, EPISODE 8: I Wanna Sex U Up?, Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick, Bern (CH) forthcoming
2026 Art-O-Rama, Window Fourteen, Marseille (FR) forthcoming
2025 NADA Miami, Spill 180, Miami, FL
2025 Thresholds, White Columns Online #34: curated by Antonia Machado Oliver
2024 NADA House, P.A.D. Gallery, New York, NY
2024 Peer Review, P.A.D. Gallery, NYABF at Printed Matter, New York, NY
2024 Etchskay, Barely Fair, Chicago, IL
2023 NADA Foreland, P.A.D. Gallery, Catskill, NY
2023 NADA Flea Market, NADA Gallery, New York, NY
2022 In with the Old: (Nearly) Six Years of P.A.D, Yeh Gallery, NY
2022 Block Party, P.A.D. Gallery, New York Art Book Fair at Printed Matter, New York, NY
2022 In with the Old: 5 Years of P.A.D, The Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase, NY
2021 In with the Old: 5 years of Project Art Distribution, Walter Elwood, Amsterdam, NY
2021 Door to DoR, P.A.D. Gallery and Department of Reflection, Miami, FL
2020 Permanent Maintenance, Plank Road, Queens, NY
2020 Yard Sale, Serving the People, online only
2020 Transfer and Disappearance II, NEW INC: with Eva Davidova, New York, NY
2020 Tie me up! Cam Shows, Special Special, New York
2019 Conditions of Exchange, 80 Nassau, New York, NY
2019 FBI Recruitment Seminar, 182 Ave C, New York
2018 Put your phone away, hOlO, Queens, NY
2018 T&N, Beyond Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2018 fashion fauxward, P.A.D. Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Signal Crossings, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2018 big fat baby, Cultural Traffic Art Fair, New York, NY
2016 Concrete & Barbed wire, Bushwick Open Studios (BOS), Brooklyn, NY

PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS

Miami Art Week Is Fast Approaching. Here’s What to Look Forward to at NADA’s 23rd Edition, artnet, December 2025
On Education, Amant, August 2025
Editors’ Selects: May 2025, Impulse Magazine, May 2025
Fractured Innocence: Marissa Delano Confronts the Violence Beneath Depraved Family!!!!!, 1202 Magazine, April 2025
Art Fairs Are Blooming All Over Paris: Your Go-To Guide to What’s On This Week, artnet, October 2024
Your Concise Art Guide for 2022 NYC, Hyperallergic, November 2022
Belonging to P.A.D, Art Spiel, March 2021
The Last Resort pt. 2, rivulet, September 2021
Witching Hour w/ art dealer Kendra Jayne Patrick, Serving the People blog,  September 2020
Qualeasha Wood - God is a young hot ebony and she's on the internet, Topical Cream, 2020
From the year you beat me, burn magazine, October 2013

RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

2025    TD Bank Curated Spotlight at NADA, Miami, FL 
2024    Virreina, San Gil, Colombia 
2023    Cobertizo, Jilotepec, Mexico
2017    Director’s Scholarship, ICP, New York, NY