Mary Addison Hackett : About

HACKETT, MARY ADDISON

Mary Addison Hackett (b. Atlanta, Georgia) is an artist whose work examines the construction of meaning, memory, and representation. Her practice is informed by research and prompted by curiosity and temporal moments in the everyday world. She works across painting, photography, performative video, installation, writing, and other time-based projects.

Hackett has presented her work at museums, galleries, film festivals, and non-profit spaces across the United States and abroad. Her work has been reviewed by Christopher Knight in the Los Angeles Times and written about in The Atlanta-Journal Constitution, The Tennessean, Hyperallergic, New American Paintings, Two Coats of Paint, and The Nashville Scene. Permanent collections include the Getty Research Institute, the Escalette Permanent Collection of Art, Music City Center, and the Riverside Art Museum. Her practice has been supported by numerous grants and honors including a Desert X Artist Relief Fund grant (2020), BAVC (Bay Area Video Coalition) (2018), the Tennessee Arts Commission (2015), and residencies at The Hambidge Center (2016), and Stove Works (2024). She is a 2022 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship Grant nominee and a 2024 participant in Burnaway’s Arts Writing Incubator.

Mary Addison Hackett earned her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1995 and her BFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, she spent several years in Los Angeles and the Mojave Desert before returning to the American South in 2021. She is currently based in Nashville, Tennessee.