Yanira Vissepo
Yanira Vissepo is a Puerto Rican artist living and working in Nashville, TN. She creates vibrant paintings using techniques including stain painting, printmaking, cyanotype, dye resists, and hand embroidery. Her work is heavily influenced by her experience of living in the Puerto Rican diaspora and examines the ecosystem of her culture through the natural world, as well as recent residencies in Japan to study traditional woodblock printmaking. She has shown regionally at the Frist Art Museum, Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, Lipscomb University, and 21c Museum, among others.
My textile paintings are centered around gradient linocuts of native plants and the natural terrain of my birthplace in the Caribbean sea and of my adopted home in the American South. As an artist living in the diaspora - I represent ideas of transition, environmental impacts and impose healing through bursts of deep colors, vibrant organic forms, and stylized landscapes. - Yanira Vissepo
Solo exhibitions: On The Mountainside By The River (Nashville, 2026)
Group exhibitions: New Mid-Century Modernism (Nashville, 2022)
See below for selected works and CV.
Yanira Vissepo
Wild Seed, 2026
Acrylic, oil relief on linen
34 x 22 in (86.4 x 55.9 cm)
Yanira Vissepo
Waiting For Dusk, 2026
Acrylic, oil relief on linen
44 x 39 in (111.8 x 99.1 cm)
Yanira Vissepo
Water Meadow, 2025
Acrylic, oil relief, embroidery on linen
72 x 216 in (182.9 x 548.6 cm)
Yanira Vissepo
Water Meadow, 2025
Acrylic, oil relief, embroidery on linen
72 x 216 in (182.9 x 548.6 cm)
Yanira Vissepo CV
Born in Santurce, Puerto Rico in 1992. Lives and works in Nashville, TN
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2026 On The Mountainside By The River, ZieherSmith, Nashville, TN
Yanira Vissepo, BNA Arts, Nashville International Airport, Nashville, TN
2025 Water Meadows, Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA
2024 Our Love is a Shady Garden, Sheet Cake Gallery, Memphis, TN
Bioluminescence, Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN.
2022 In Between Floating Worlds, Electric Shed, Nashville, TN.
2020 Drizzle, COOP Gallery, Nashville, TN.
2018 Blue Yards, Fort Houston Gallery, Nashville, TN
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 In Her Place, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN
2025 MI-LAB AIR Exhibition, Udatsu Craft and Paper Museum, Echizen, Japan
Let’s Go Swimming, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville TN
Puerto Natural, Galeria San Rafael, Quebradilas, Puerto Rico
2024 La Pinta, Van Hiram Gordon Gallery, Nashville, TN.
Mi Huella, Conexión Americas Gallery, Nashville, TN
2023 Art of Resilience, Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, TN
The Future of Print, Julia Martin Gallery, Nashville, TN
Halos, Studio200NYC and Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN
2022 New Mid-Century Modernism, ZieherSmith, Nashville, TN
The Leftovers Show, Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN
My head’s in the clouds, 21c Museum, Nashville, TN
Locational Shift, COOP Gallery, Nashville, TN
2021 A Tender Harkening, Open Gallery, Nashville, TN
To Get To The Other Side, Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN
2018 Clown Show: Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN
Residencies
2025 MI-Lab, Echizen, Japan.
Lost Coast Art Colony, Quebradillas, Puerto Rico.
2021 Nashville Public Library, Nashville, TN.
2020 COOP Gallery, Nashville, TN