NISSA KAUPPILA
BIOGRAPHY
Nissa Kauppila was born and raised in the small, rural town of Monkton, Vermont, USA. She holds both a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a M.Ed. from the University of Vermont. Expanding on her sense of curiosity, while exploring the unsettling and concrete, Kauppila has found painting the nature of flight, life, and the natural world a rewarding exercise in rediscovery.
Her immersion in Chinese traditional painting techniques and materials has awakened a sense of detail and fragility; her work explores the use of line and color as tendrils of tension while embodying a sense of wonderment for the natural world. Kauppila reaches beyond perception and disintegrates her subjects in ways that are not actual in her works in traditional Chinese watercolor and ink on traditional Chinese rice paper. In her newest works, Kauppila explores and expands on the play between delicacy and stability by pushing the boundaries of rice paper, resins, fiberglass, and hidden structures in a series that speaks to the contrast of the fleeting and precarious nature of both traditional and modern materials and the delicate and crumbling state of our natural world.
Kauppila’s paintings and art have been showcased internationally in Dubai, Macau, Hong Kong, New York, Atlanta, London, Singapore, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hamburg, Taipei, and Seoul, with current exhibitions and representation in Vermont, Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore.
EXHIBITIONS
2024
Solo Exhibition, Nissa Kauppila, Art Curator’s Hub Gallery, Hong Kong
World Art Dubai Group Show, Dubai
Solo Exhibition, Nissa Kauppila, Amagao Gallery, Macau
Solo Exhibition Nissa Kauppila HKI Gallery, Hong Kong
Group Show, Soapbox Arts, Vermont, USA
2023
Solo Exhibition Nissa Kauppila HKI Gallery, Hong Kong
Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong, HKI Gallery, Hong Kong
Group Show, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA USA
Group Show, Miaja Gallery, Singapore
Group Show, Soapbox Arts, Vermont, USA
2022
Affordable Art Fair Singapore, Miaja Gallery, Singapore
Group Show, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA USA
Group Show, Miaja Gallery, Singapore
Maltex Exhibtion, BCA, Vermont, USA
Group Show, Soapbox Arts, Vermont, USA
UVMMC Exhibit, BCA, Vermont, USA
2021
Group Show, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA USA
Group Show, Miaja Gallery, Singapore
Group Show, Epsilon Art Share, Hong Kong
Maltex Exhibtion, BCA, Vermont, USA
Group Show, Soapbox Arts, Burlington
UVMMC Exhibit, BCA, Vermont, USA
2020
Group Show, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA USA
Group Show, Miaja Gallery, Singapore
Group Show, Epsilon Art Share, Hong Kong
Maltex Exhibtion, BCA, Vermont, USA
Group Show, Soapbox Arts, Burlington
UVMMC Exhibit, BCA, Vermont, USA
2019
Affordable Art Fair Singapore, Miaja Gallery, Singapore
Sustainability Citi Bank Dinner—Invited Artist Presentation, Singapore
Group Show, Bill Lowe Gallery
Mid-Summer Art Jam, Miaja Gallery, Hong Kong
Maltex Exhibtion, BCA, Vermont, USA
Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong, Miaja Gallery, Hong Kong
UVMMC Exhibit, BCA, Vermont, USA
2018
Winter Gala Exhibition, Miaja Gallery, Singapore
Burlington City Arts Rotating Gallery, BCA, Vermont
Affordable Art Fair Singapore, Miaja Gallery, Singapore
A Private Vernissage Group Exhibition, Miaja Gallery, Singapore
Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong, Miaja Gallery, Hong Kong
Affordable Art Fair London, Artered Gallery, London
Serene Chaos, Solo Exhibition, IINNOO Gallery, Shanghai
Occuring, Female Group Exhibition, IINNOO Gallery, Shanghai
2017
Scape Vogue, Joint Exhibition, Blanc Art Gallery, Macau, China
Affordable Art Fair (AAF) Hamburg, Artered Gallery, Hamburg, Germany, November
Nissa Kauppila, Artered Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Static Suspensions, Solo Exhibition, Amanda Wei Gallery, Hong Kong
Tales From China: Nissa Kauppila, Miaja Gallery, Singapore
Affordable Art Fair New York City, Artered Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong, Miaja Gallery, Hong Kong
Wings of a Woman, Joint Exhibition Miaja Gallery, Fullteron Hotel Singapore, Singapore
Shanghai Tang Fashion Show Jardin Orange Gallery, Shenzhen, China
Nissa Kauppila, Jardin Orange Gallery, Shenzhen, China
2016
Holiday Exhibition, Nissa Kauppila, Miaja Gallery, Singapore
Asia Contemporary, Nissa Kauppila, KF Gallery, Hong Kong
A Fleeting Moment: When East Meets West, Solo Exhibition Nissa Kauppila Above Second Gallery, Hong Kong
Featured Artist Nissa Kauppila, Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong, KF Gallery, Hong Kong
Affordable Art Fair (AAF) Seoul, KF Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Affordable Art Fair (AAF) Taipei , KF Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Nissa Kauppila, KF Gallery, Shenzhen, China
Nissa Kauppila, Westbranch Gallery, Stowe, VT, USA
2015
Nissa Kauppila, Shenzhen Contemporary Art Fair, KF Artspace, OCT, Shenzhen, China
Artistic Stone Exhibition: Nissa Kauppila and Justin Y, D2 Place Lai Chi Kok, Hong Kong
Nissa Kauppila, Kiwisual, Guangzhou, China
Flight: Explorations in Movement, Migration, and Freedom Westbranch Gallery, Stowe, VT, USA
Nissa Kauppila, KF Artspace, OCT, Shenzhen, China
Nissa Kauppila, All Souls Gathering Gallery, Shelburne, VT, USA
Nissa Kauppila, Westbranch Gallery, Stowe, VT, USA, USA
Nissa Kauppila, Burlington City Arts, Burlington, VT, USA
Nissa Kauppila, Dosti Brothers, Burlington, VT, USA
Menagerie: Animals in Art, Westbranch Gallery, Stowe, VT, USA
Nissa Kauppila, Burlington City Arts, Maltex Building, Burlington, VT, USA
Nissa Kauppila, Westbranch Gallery, Stowe, VT, USA
2014
Cradle and All, METRO Gallery, Burlington, VT, USA
Nissa Kauppila, Opening Reception and Exhibition, Westbranch Gallery, Stowe, VT, USA
Nissa Kauppila, Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, VT, USA
Nissa Kauppila, Tao Studio, Burlington, VT, USA
Nissa Kauppila, Burlington City Arts Exhibition, Marriott Hotel, Burlington, VT, USA
Nissa Kauppila, Burlington City Arts Exhibition, Burlington International Airport, South Burlington VT, USA
Nissa Kauppila, Burlington City Arts Exhibition, Logic Supply
2013
Affordable Arts Fair, Chelsea Tunnel, New York, NY
People’s Choice and Juried Winners Artist Show, SEABA Gallery, Burlington, VT, USA
Inaugural Exhibit: This to That, Alpers Fine Art Gallery, Andover, MA
Juried Artist Show, curated by Pavel Zoubok, SEABA Gallery, Burlington, VT, USA
Show Your Independence, SEABA Gallery, Burlington VT, USA
2012
In the Trees, Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, VT, USA
People’s Choice and Juried Winners Artist Show, SEABA Gallery, Burlington, VT, USA
Juried Artist Show, SEABA Gallery, Burlington, VT, USA
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