Vanessa Mitter

Vanessa Mitter is a painter and a performance artist, who lives and works in London. She graduated with a BA in Fine Art: Painting from Central Saint Martins and a Postgraduate Diploma and an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design.
Mitter’s work is held in private collections in Europe and America, and in various public art collections, including the Mark Rothko Art Centre Collection, Latvia.
Mitter is the recipient of various awards, including The Mark Rothko Memorial Trust fully-funded Art Residency, which she undertook at the Mark Rothko Centre, Latvia in August 2022 in the town where Rothko was born. The award was selected by a panel that included: Rebecca Salter RA (current President of the Royal Academy of Arts, London), Timothy Marlow OBE (current Director of the Design Museum, London; broadcaster, writer, art historian and former Director of Exhibitions at the White Cube Gallery), Laura Culpan (Director of Artwise Curators) and Paul Huxley RA (renowned British painter and Royal Academician).
Mitter has exhibited extensively in the United Kingdom and in the rest of Europe. Her most recent exhibition took place from October-November 2023 at the Künstlerhaus, Bregenz, Austria.