Alyssa Fanning was born in 1985 in Teaneck, NJ. A graduate of Pratt Institute (BFA) and Montclair State University (MFA), Fanning has exhibited at AC Institute, New York, NY; the Glass House, New Canaan, CT; Newark Museum, Newark, NJ; Platform x David Zwirner, New York, NY; Pocket Utopia, New York, NY and Teckningsmuseet, Laholm, Sweden, among others. Solo exhibitions by the artist include A Thousand Moons and Suns at Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY and Alyssa Fanning: Drawings at Carlton Hobbs, New York, NY. She has been published in Battery Journal, BOMB Magazine, Forever Magazine, Hyperallergic, Peer Review, and Two Coats of Paint. Her curatorial projects include exhibitions at Eagle Studio, Brooklyn, NY; Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY; and Radiator Gallery, Queens, NY. Fanning is co-founder of Show&Tell Art Talks, an artist lecture series held at the New York Irish Center in Long Island City, NY. She teaches drawing and design at Montclair State University in Montclair, NJ and Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, where she received a Distinguished Teaching Faculty Award in 2022. In 2026, she was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.