Exhibitions
IN HER PLACE: NASHVILLE ARTISTS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Frist Art Museum / 919 Broadway January 29, 2026 - April 26, 2026
Women artists have long been at the center of Nashville’s vibrant visual arts community. Especially during the recent period of remarkable growth, they are showing their work across the country and globe and receiving prestigious grants, residencies, and critical acclaim. Many have also dedicated years, even decades, to teaching or building impactful community organizations.
In Her Place draws attention to the prominent position of women artists in our region and beyond through the presentation of nearly 100 paintings, sculptures, textiles, and installation works made by an intergenerational group of 28 celebrated Nashville-based women artists. Selected works relate broadly to concepts of place, whether that be the literal view of a garden outside a studio window, the more general influence of being raised in the American South, a place in time, or the evocation of an ancestral homeland outside of the United States. On view in the museum’s largest gallery space, In Her Place is part of the Frist’s 25th-anniversary celebration, underscoring its commitment to the local arts ecosphere. This project will be accompanied by a catalogue coedited by Katie Delmez and Laura Hutson Hunter and published by Vanderbilt University Press.
Organized by the Frist Art Museum and cocurated by Katie Delmez, Frist Art Museum senior curator, Shaun Giles, Frist Art Museum community engagement director, and Sai Clayton, independent curator and artist.
Image: Karen Seapker. You are Spring, 2023. Oil on canvas; 72 x 48 in. (182.9 x 121.9 cm). Collection of Sasha and Charlie Sealy. Photo credit: Sam Angel
