HACKETT, MARY ADDISON
Mary Addison Hackett (b.1961, Atlanta, Georgia) is an artist with an autobiographical practice who documents day-to-day life through a combination of situations, both found and staged. Her work addresses self-representation, memory, sense of place, and loss, and often combines performance with wry humor. She works across painting, photography, video, writing, and other time-based projects
Since the early 90s, Hackett has exhibited and screened her work in museums, galleries, 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.
She was awarded a 2024 Current Art Fund Grant, a regranting program administered by Tri-Star Arts through the Andy Warhol Foundation. Her work has been supported by grants from Desert X Artist Relief Fund grant (2020), BAVC (Bay Area Video Coalition) (2018), the Tennessee Arts Commission (2015), and recent residencies at Stove Works (2024) and The Hambidge Center (2016). She is a 2022 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship Grant nominee and a 2024 participant in Burnaway’s Arts Writing Incubator.
Hackett received her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her BFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, Hackett lived and worked between Los Angeles, Nashville, and Joshua Tree, California before returning to the American South in 2021. She is currently based in Nashville.