Mary Addison Hackett (b.1961, Atlanta, Georgia) is an artist whose work examines the construction of meaning, memory, and representation. She documents day-to-day life as a catalyst for ongoing critical investigation, calling into question the tenuous divide between art and life, personal experience and philosophical inquiry. She works across photography, painting, performative video, installation, writing, and other time-based projects.

Since the early 90s, Hackett has exhibited and screened her work in museums, galleries, non-profit spaces, and film festivals across the United States and abroad. Her work has been reviewed and featured in the Los Angeles Times, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution, Hyperallergic, Burnaway, Two Coats of Paint, New American Paintings, and The Nashville Scene.

Recent grants include a 2024 Current Art Fund Grant, a regranting program administered by Tri-Star Arts through the Andy Warhol Foundation. She is a 2022 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship Grant nominee and a 2024 participant in Burnaway’s Arts Writing Incubator. Her work has been supported by grants from the Desert X Artist Relief Fund (2020), BAVC (Bay Area Video Coalition) (2018), the Tennessee Arts Commission (2015), and recent residencies at Stove Works (2024) and The Hambidge Center (2016). 

Hackett received her MFA from the University of Illinois Chicago and her BFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is currently based in Nashville, Tennessee.