About the Artist

Nepsilon (Neps) Piercey is a queer, nonbinary interdisciplinary artist. Born and raised in the wintery state of Minnesota in the USA, they spent much of their early life with illustrated fairy tale books and fantasy stories. By the time they were in their teens, anime and manga began to spur on their fascinations with fiction. The fantastical tales inspired them to create fantastical worlds in their works, while also trying to touch the hearts of others. Their nonbinary and queer identity often inform their work, to blend gender and sex together often through themes of transformation. While working with digital mediums with textured line work and limited color pallets, their traditional work is with graphite drawings and mixing the soft blending of gouache paints with the sharp colors of acrylic paint and ink. Their comic work tends to take on a story-like quality and deals with hard topics like neurodivergency, C-PTSD, and social commentary. Their fiction writing is exact, with flourish and flowers to fluff their meaning, often writing about Queerness, Fantasy, and Identity. They earned the Comic Art scholarship at MCAD in 2025. Neps has curated an exhibition called Off the Shelves: Non-Traditional Comics in 2024 and Habits of Seeing in 2025, and won Juror’s Choice in Made at Mcad: All-Student Juried Exhibition in 2025, along with other exhibitions they have been in since 2022.They graduated from Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Majoring in Comic Arts and Minoring in Creative Writing and Curation.

Awards and Merit

EXHIBITIONS
Love in the Time of Resistance
MCAD, Minneapolis MN, February 2026
Co-Prosperity, Chicago IL, April - May 2026Art for All: Art Glow
Northrup King Building, Minneapolis MN, December 4th - December 20th, 2025Habits of Seeing (Curator)
Wesley Andrews, Minneapolis MN
Co-Curators: Ellie Needham, Paulina Solkahava, November 2025Shape of Absence, Memories and Metamorphosis
Jackson Flats, Minneapolis MN, November 2025Made at Mcad
Juror’s Choice Award Recipient
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN, 2025Off the Shelf: Non-Traditional Comics
(Curator)
Minneapolis College of Art and Design Library, Minneapolis, MN, 2024Breaking Ground
Eagan Art House, Eagan, MN, 2024Deep Listening
Eagan Art House, Eagan, MN, 2024MCAD Zine Fest
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN, 2023-2025 (Admin in 2024/2025)No Strings on Me
Northside Artspace Lofts Main Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 2023Material and Media Exploration
Homewood Studio, Minneapolis, MN, 2023PUBLICATIONS
MCAD Comics Club 2025 Anthology: What Goes Bump in the Night
_{Editor and Organizer}MCAD OC Club Zine
No.1 & No. 2, 2023-2024MCAD Furry Zine: Horror
No. 2, 2024MCAD Health and Wellness Zine
No. 1, 2023AWARDS
MCAD Portfolio Scholarship Award 2022-2026
Fourth place in Phantomacy 1st Art contest
MCAD Merit Comic Art Scholarship 2025Other Work
Backgrounds for Catharsis by Roman Schroeder

• AO3 Writing

Please Email Neps at [email protected] for any questions

After the World Ends Visual Development

After The World Ends is a post apocalypse story about two young adults navigating a world that no longer has the same convinces as before and trying to find joy in everyday life. Vendy and Kelly-dog are companions that help ground them and keep joy in their hearts.