Selected Exhibitions:
2024
Earth Day Show, Yarmouth Art and Frame, Yarmouth, ME
2023
Brush with Nature, Maine Audubon, Falmouth, ME
Holiday Show, Ocean House Gallery, South Portland, ME
Holiday Show, Yarmouth Art and Frame, Yarmouth, ME
2022
Restoring the Wild, solo exhibition, Maine Audubon, Falmouth, ME
Wild Ecology, solo exhibition, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, ME
MECA Collect, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
Farm to Easel Art Auction, Wolfe’s Neck Center, Freeport, ME
2020
Farm to Easel Art Auction, Wolfe’s Neck Farm, Freeport, ME
MECA Collect, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
. The Portland Show, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
Artist’s Sing Out for Life and the Planet, Merrill Memorial Library in Yarmouth, ME
2019
MECA Collect, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
Art + Healing Project, New England Cancer Specialists, Scarborough, ME
2018
Visions of Place: 30 Maine Artists, Thomas Moser Gallery, Freeport, ME
A Further Sea: Marine Gardens by Vanessa Nesvig and Assemblages by Andre Benoit,
LA Arts, Lewiston, ME
2017
Spring Gallery Show, Archipelago, The Island Institute Gallery, Rockland, ME
MECA Collect, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2016
The Portland Show, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
21st Annual Juried Show, juror, Bruce Brown, Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, ME
2015
Winter Green, MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
Holiday Show, Ocean House Gallery, Cape Elizabeth, ME
2014
Microbiota, solo exhibition, Seacoast Science Center, Rye, NH
Hydrographic: Erin McGee Ferrell and Vanessa Nesvig,
Thomas Moser Gallery, Freeport, ME
2013
Micro-biotic, solo exhibition, Wells National Estuarine Reserve, Wells, ME
Summer exhibition, Thomas Moser Gallery, Freeport, ME
Silent Spring: Enduring Legacy, George Marshall Store Gallery, York, ME
Art Meets Science, Mount Desert Biolgical Laboratories, Seal Cove, ME
2012
Three Artists: Nesvig, Niles, and Scheu, Flat Iron Gallery, Portland, ME
2011
Women Artists of Maine, Thomas Moser Gallery, Freeport, ME
Freeport Artists, Thomas Moser Gallery, Freeport, ME
Black and White, River Arts, Damariscotta, ME
Black Frame Invitational, Portland, ME
2009
A Passion for Painting, Cygnet Gallery, Portland, Maine
Art Takes Flight, Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Falmouth, ME
2000-2003
Pastel Painters of Maine Annual International Exhibition, ME
Press/Publications:
Native Ground Covers, Wild Seed Project, Book jacket and inside illustrations, 2022
Bringing Nature Home, Maine Audubon, Initiative illustration, 2021
Field Days, Maine Homes by Downeast, July/August 2020
Wild Seed, Wild Seed Project quarterly magazine, April 2020, cover and introduction page artwork
A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis, Contributor, Littoral Books, 2019
Maine Home + Design, Ones to Watch: Vanessa Nesvig, 2017
Maine Home + Design, Canvas Profile: Capturing the Forces of Nature, 2014
Portland Press Herald, Environmentally Tuned-in Artists Pay Respects to 'Silent Spring',
by Daniel Kany, 6/23/13
Auctions:
2020-2022 Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment, Farm to Easel Auction
2004-2014 Maine College of Art Auction, Portland, ME
2009-2011 Paint for Preservation, Cape Elizabeth Land Trust,
Cape Elizabeth, ME
2005-2024 Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine, Portland, ME
2006-2014 Waynflete School, Portland, Maine
2004-2011 Heartwood College of Art, Paint the Port, Kennebunk, ME
2008-2010 Paint Bath, Chocolate Church, Bath, Maine
2001-2008 Laudholm Trust Painterly Day, Wells, ME
2006-2008 Trust in Art, Kennebunkport Conservation Trust,
Kennebunkport, Maine
2006-2008 Maine Audubon Art Auction, Falmouth, ME
2000-2006 Kennebunk Land Trust, Kennebunk, ME
2002-2006 Visiting Nurse-Home Health Auction, Scarborough, ME
2002-2004 Florence Griswold Museum Summer Auction, Old Lyme, CT
2005-2008 Lyme Academy of Fine Arts Ball, Old Lyme, CT
Education:
Boston University, B.A. Art History
American College in Paris, Art and Art History
Independent Study with Peter Seltzer, PSA
Independent Study with Frank Federico, PSA, NWA
Awards:
2005 Honorable Mention, River Club Art Show, Kennebunkport, ME
2001 Art Hahn 3rd Place Award, WSCH Portland Sidewalk Art
2001 Blue Ribbon, River Tree Center for the Arts, Critters exhibition
2001 Merit Award, Saco Sidewalk Art Festival, Saco, ME
2000 Presidents Award, Pastel Painters of Maine, International Exhibition
1999 People’s Choice Award, Old Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT
Teaching Positions:
2015-2019 Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, ME
2008 Haystack, Deer Isle, MAEA Conference
2005-2008 Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
2000-2005 River Tree Center for the Arts, Kennebunk, ME
2002-2014 Star Island International Affairs Conference, Star Island, NH
2000-2005 Wells Estuarine Research Reserve, Wells, ME
2000-2003 Heartwood College of Art, Kennebunk, ME
Selected Public Collections:
Laudholm Trust at the Wells Estuarine Research Reserve
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratories
WCSH Channel 6, Portland, ME