Alyssa Reiser Prince was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, spent her childhood in the northeast, and in Charlotte, NC. She has exhibited at Miami University's Young Painters Competition in Oxford, OH., the Zhou B. Art Center's Wet Paint Exhibition in Chicago, IL., the Center for Visual Arts in Greenville, SC., the McColl Center of Visual Art in Charlotte, NC., and the NoDa arts district in Charlotte, NC., among others. She graduated from Clemson University with an MFA, emphasis in Painting, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, with a BFA, emphasis in Painting with an Art History Minor. She currently lives and works in Hartsville, SC.