Marissa Nicole Stewart is photographic based artist residing in the Midwest. Her practice is based on ideas involving Black families, matriarchallineage, race, oral history, aging and health. The root of these ideas take shape through traditional and experimental storytelling practices.

She received her BFA in photography from Bowling Green State University and her MFA in photography from Ohio University.
She has been awarded numerous awards including the Greater Columbus Art Council Grant for Individual Artist and the Ohio Arts Council Artists withDisabilities Access Program Grant.

Marissa’s work has been shown in mosaicARTs Gallery in Fairfax, VA, Ohio University Art Gallery, Southern Ohio Museum, Hopkins Hall Gallery at TheOhio State University, The Neon Heater in Findlay, OH, Praxis Gallery in Minneapolis, Minnesota and East Window Gallery in Boulder, CO.

She is also featured in the book Of Covid: A Collective Trauma published by Humble Arts Foundation which is included in the collections of TheMuseum of Modern Art, Southern Oregon University and Costal Carolina University.