About

Vivianna Mercado is a young artist whose work is heavily influenced by pop culture, especially the cartoons, video games, and anime of the late 90's-early 2000's. Most of their childhood, to their parent’s dismay, was spent in front of some sort of screen or sketchbook in their tiny house in New Jersey. Dreaming up of worlds and characters often colorful and chaotic by using watercolors, acrylic markers, and whatever they can get their paint stained hands on.

Their found-object piece “Growing Pains” was displayed at the annual juried show Profiles of the Future(2016) in the Ben Shahn Galleries at the Ben Shahn Center for the Visual Arts. Their work was also featured in the Winter Paper exhibition in Carthaigh Coffee in Stone Ridge, New York. They have a B.F.A with a concentration in illustration from William Paterson University as of spring of 2018. As of 2020 they have sold their work online at Castle Point Anime Con and participated in a charity zine. They also plan to participate in more artist alleys in the future.