MARY ADDISON HACKETT
(Hackett, Mary Addison)
b. Atlanta, Georgia
EDUCATION
MFA, Studio Art/Video University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
BFA, Painting, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
SELECTED GRANTS / AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
Desert X Relief Fund, Desert X Foundation, April 2020
Honorable Mention, LAUFF, Los Angeles, CA, (Anonymous was a Vlog: Lost) 2019
Audience Choice Award, Extremely Shorts Film Festival, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX (Anonymous was a Vlog: Lost) 2019
BAVC Preservation Access Program, Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco, CA 2018
Residency Fellow, The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA 2016
Professional Development Support Grant, Tennessee Arts Commission 2015
Professional Development Grant, Watkins College of Art & Design 2013
Professional Development Grant, Watkins College of Art & Design 2012
One-year Artist-in-Residence, Cummins Station Community Arts Program, Nashville, TN 2011
Art in The Embassies Program, U.S. Embassy, Montevideo, Uruguay 2007
Project Grant, The Ruth Chenven Foundation 2006
Two-month Residency, Stichting Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, Netherlands 2004
Two-week Residency, Painting’s Edge, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA 2003
Artist-in-Residence, The Arts Center At Little City Foundation, Palatine, IL 1996
CAAP Grant, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs 1995
Artist-in-Residence, The Media Arts Center at Little City Foundation, Palatine, I
1994 Video Artist-in-Residence, Centro San Bonifacio, Chicago, IL 1995
Teaching Assistantship (Video I, II; Drawing I), University of Illinois at Chicago 1994
Workshop Grant , P.O.V. Television & The American Documentary Inc., St. Paul, MN 1994
CAAP Grant, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs 1992
OxBow, Artist Residency and Staff Fellowship, Saugatuck, MI 1986
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
SRLBX Videoart Annual, Serial Box Projects, Columbia, MO (Digital Projection, Dec 1-2, 2017)
2016
The Repair Project, Seed Space, Nashville, TN (May 7 - June 6, 2016)
A Tin of Egyptian Cigarettes, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA (Jan 7 - Feb 6, 2016)
2014
Crazy Eyes, David Lusk Gallery, Nashville, TN (Oct 11 - Nov 8, 2014)
2013
Le Rayon Vert, Leu Gallery, Belmont University, Nashville, TN (Sept 9 - Oct 17, 2013)
Shell Game, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN (Aug 24 - Sept 28, 2013)
2012
Mary Addison Hackett, Customs House Museum, Clarksville, TN (May 1 - July 1, 2012)
Paintings, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY (May 24 - June 17, 2012)
2011
Acts of Moral Turpentine, Track 13 Gallery, Cummins Station, Nashville, TN (11/5 - 12/4/11)
Flying Solo Exhibition Series, Nashville Int’l Airport, Nashville, TN (3/15 - 9/8/11)
2010
Fluid: Elusive Chapters from the Passage of Time,” Kristi Engle Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (9/25 - 10/31/10)
2008
I forget now what all this is about…, Kristi Engle Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (5/3 - 6/7/08)
2007
Tornado Face Drawings, TAG Art Gallery, Nashville, TN (August, 2007)
2005
Scramble: A Series of Unruly Drawings and Paintings, McNish Gallery, Oxnard College, Oxnard, CA (6/27 - 7/9/05)
2004
Klusje Van Niks, Stichting Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, Netherlands (July 2004)
2003
New Roles for Spare Parts, Gallery 825 at Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (7/19 - 8/23/03)
2002
Series 100 + Spare Parts, Zone 9 Art Flatfile Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (11/3 - 11/ 30/02)
1994
Fresh: Dartboard Maintenance, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL (May 1994)
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS
2020
2020 Oracle Show, curated by Colleena Hake, La Matadora Gallery, Joshua Tree, CA (Dec 14, 2019-Jan 26, 2020)
2019
Summertime Sadness, PØST Kamikaze, MiM Gallery, curators: Katie Grip/Tessie Salcido Whitmore, Los Angeles, CA (Jul 26, 2019)
With Feeling, curated by Christina Renfer Vogel, Ground Floor Contemporary, Birmingham, AL (Jul 11-28, 2019)
Extremely Shorts Film Festival, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX (May 17-18, 2019)*
Vitrine, Plexus Projects, Brooklyn, NY (April 19, 2019)
Paradise:Parallax, The Joshua Treenial, curators: Bernard Leibov/KJ Baysa, BoxoPROJECTS, Joshua Tree, CA (Apr 12-14, 2019)
Dreamhouse vs. Punk House! curators: Kristin Calabrese, Joshua Aster, Los Angeles, CA (Mar 23- Sept 29, 2019)
When the Dust Settles, curated by Emily Silver & Stephanie Digregorio, Unpaved Gallery, Yucca Valley, CA (Jan 19- Mar 1, 2019)
2018
Temporal and Corporeal: A Broad Scope of Performance Art,” Ohio University Art Gallery, Athens, OH (Jan 23 - Mar 3, 2018)
Con - Testi, Opere e Dialoghi, ROMA - LOS ANGELES,” curated by John O’Brien, Galleria Sinopia, Roma, Italia (May 3 - June 15, 2018)
2017
Various Positions, Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN (Jan 7 - Jan 31, 2017)
2016
Encore, curators: Sam Yates/Eric Cagley, Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (July 15 - Aug 28, 2016)
Absolutely Incredible,” Apothecary, Chattanooga, TN (Mar - April 2016)
Gallery Tally, organized by Micol Hebron, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Hollywood, CA (May - June, 2016)
2015
Community Slide Show: Lost Art, curated by Vesna Pavlović, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN (Sept 5 - Oct 31, 2015)
Art in America, curated by Julie Torres, Tiger Strikes Asteroid at the Satellite Show, Miami, FL (Dec 1 - 6, 2015)
SPE Caucus Exhibition, Ogden Museum, New Orleans, LA (Mar 12 - April 5, 2015)
Traveled to: University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL (May 13 - May 28, 2015)
Gallery Tally Poster Project, organized by Micol Hebron, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL (May 27 –June 25, 2015)
Right Before My Eyes, Customs House Museum, Clarksville, TN (Jan 8 - Mar 6, 2015)
2014
Monuments, Hotel Soap & Linear Progressions, Currey Gallery, Watkins, Nashville, TN (Sept 4 - 26, 2014)
Opening, David Lusk Gallery, Nashville, TN (Mar 1- 29, 2014)
2013
Influx: Art at LAX, Levitational, curated by John O’Brien, LAX, Los Angeles, CA (June 28 - Dec 31, 2013)
Mas Attack, L.A. MART, curated by Max Presneill & Artra Curatorial, Los Angeles, CA (Jan 26, 2013)
Still Lifes, Landscapes, and Posers, (curatorial), threesquared, Nashville, TN (Feb, 2013)
2012
10 Years L.A. @ Foundation Kaus Australis, curated by Carl Berg, The Prospectus, West Hollywood, CA (Jan 26 - Mar 2, 2012)
About Face, curated by Daniel Weinberg, ACME., Los Angeles, CA (Nov 17 - Dec 22, 2012)
To Live and Paint in LA, curated by Max Presneill/Jason Ramos, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA (Jan 21 - Mar 10, 2012)
Hot Paint, curated by Jay Erker/John Mills, Weekend, Los Angeles, CA (June 1 - July 1, 2012)
Line up Round 4, From the Gut with Heart, curated by Gwendolyn Skaggs, SUGAR, Brooklyn, NY (April 21 - June 24, 2012)
2011
Asynchronous Salon, curated by Carla Knopp, Marsh Gallery, Herron School of Art & Design, Indianapolis, IN (Aug 3 - Aug 26, 2011)
Everything’s Coming Up Roses, co-curated by Luisa Caldwell and ML McCorkel, WG News + Art, Brooklyn, NY (May 6 - May 28, 2011)
2010
Rebus Reconstructuring, curated by John O’Brien, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA (Feb 20 - Mar 25, 2010)
Devise and Evolve, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA (May - June, 2010 )
2009
Rebus, curated by John O’Brien, Amelia Museum of Archeology, Umbria, Italy (August, 2009)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Best of Quarantine, Float Magazine, curated by Dana Stirling and Yoav Friedlander, online exhibition, (May 11, 2020)
Greg Swiger, “Final Friday Interview: 025 Mary Addison Hackett,” Final Friday Podcast, Aug 26, 2016
Sara Estes. “Seed Space examines art of mending.” The Tennessean, May 29, 2016
Erica Ciccarone, “Mending as Metaphor: Mary Addison Hackett at Seed Space, Nashville,” Burnaway, May 23, 2016
Matthew Terrell, "Review: In “A Tin of Egyptian Cigarettes” Mary Addison Hackett’s joy is inherent.” Arts ATL, 26 Jan. 2016
Jordan Amirkhani, “Review: Mary Addison Hackett at Marcia Wood Midtown.” Burnaway, 26 Jan. 2016
Felicia Feaster, "Charming Approach to Daily Life in Mary Addison Hackett’s Art." Rev. Atlanta-Journal Constitution 12 Jan. 2016
Nikil Saval and Dayna Tortorici, n+1, literary magazine, 7. Dec. 2015
Joe Nolan, "Paint, Process & Poetry: Mary Addison Hackett at David Lusk in Nashville.” Rev. Burnaway, 21 Oct. 2014
Megan Kelley, "Reconsiderations: Through Painting, Mary Addison Hackett Rediscovers the True Language of Things." Nashville Arts Magazine, Mar. 2014
Jim Ridley, “Go Green with Mary Addison Hackett's Le Rayon Vert.” Nashville Scene, 07 Oct. 2013
Joe Nolan, “Le Rayon Vert is Mysterious and Masterly.” Rev. Arts Nash, 03 Oct. 2013
Veronica Kavass, “Cool and Collected.” Nashville Scene,16 May 2013
Karen Parr-Moody, “Thick, colorful brushstrokes evoke nature.” Rev. The Leaf Chronicle, 22 June 2012
Chris Hoff, “Small Is Big At The Torrance Art Museum.” Rev. OC Art Blog, 7 Feb. 2012
Sharon Butler, “Visitors in New York: Mary Addison Hackett and Raffaella Chiara.” Two Coats of Paint 10 May 2011
Terry Martin, "Artistic Spectrum in ‘Devise and Evolve’ exhibition at Brand Library.” Rev. Glendale Press, 9 June 2010
Christopher Knight, “Visual feast of color, technique,” Rev. Los Angeles Times 16 May 2008
Christopher Knight, “Critics’ Choices,” Rev. Los Angeles Times 1 June 2008
Nick Sousanis, “F*ck You/Commentary Criticism.” Rev. www.thedetroiter.com 21 June 2007
Jonathan Marx, “Art Makes a Splashdown,” The Tennessean, August 3, 2006
Ellen Fox, “Suite on Art.” Rev. New City May 15, 1999
J. Gluckstern, “An ‘Eye’ful, but Not Enough?” Rev. Colorado Daily 10 April 1998
Steve Rosen, “Eye-For-I Cinema looks at Short Films,” Rev. Denver Post 10 April 1997
CATALOGS / COMPILATIONS
Joanie 4 Jackie Archive, http://www.joanie4jackie.com/chainletter/the-m-i-a-chainletter/
n+1, literary magazine, 7. Dec. 2015 (image), 2015
Open Studio Press. New American Paintings. South Edition #118, 2015
David Lusk Gallery. Exhibition Catalog. Essay by Sara Estes, 2014
Music City Center. Permanent Collection. Catalog, 2014
Torrance Art Museum. Exhibition Catalog, 2012
Two Coats of Paint Press. Against The Tide. Catalog, 2011
Chapman University. Permanent Collection. Catalog, 2011
Artra Curatorial. Exhibition Catalog, 2009
Kristi Engle Gallery. Exhibition Catalog. Essay by Max Presneill, 2008
United States Embassy. Exhibition Catalog, 2007
Open Studio Press. New American Paintings. Pacific Coast Edition #61, 2006
Open Studio Press. New American Paintings. Pacific Coast Edition #49, Essay By Anne Ellegood, 2004
Miranda July. Joanie 4 Jackie. Video compilation. 1998
Joel Bacher, Independent Exposure’s All Erotic Shorts Program. Video compilation. 1998
College of DuPage. Exhibition Catalog. Essay by Eileen Broido, 1997
ARTIST LECTURES / COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Advisory Council—Artists' Tea, Joshua Tree, CA, 2018-2019
Board Member—Arts Connection-the Arts Council of San Bernadino County, 2018- present
Juror—Art Extravaganza, Twentynine Palms Elementary School, Twentynine Palms, CA, 2017
Advisory Council—Locate Arts, Nashville TN 2016-2019
Guest Artist—JT Lab Program: Artists’ Tea, Joshua Tree National Park, Joshua Tree, CA March, 2018
Moderator—Seed Space & The Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville, Insight? Outta Site! with Nicole Caruth, Nashville, TN 2017
Curator —Alice Clements, ‘Wrapping,’ COOP Gallery, Nashville TN 2016
Board Member, Press relations— COOP, curatorial collective and gallery, Nashville, TN 2015-2017
Festival Screener—2016 ATLFF ’16 Screening Committee, Atlanta Film Festival, 2015
Artist Talk—David Lusk Gallery, Nashville, TN 2014
Selection Panelist— Metro Public Arts, Nashville, TN 2013
Artist Talk—Belmont University, Nashville, TN 2013
Curator—Still Lifes, Landscapes, and Posers, threesquared, Nashville, TN 2013
Artist Talk—Kristi Engle Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2010, 2008
Artist Talk and Studio Tour, Skirball Cultural Center, Educational Program, Los Angeles, CA 2010
Juror—2010 National Watercolor Society (NWS) All Members Juried Exhibition, CA 2010
Artist Talk and Studio Tour, FOCA (Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 2008
Artist Talk—Rio Hondo College, Artist Talk, Whittier, CA 2008
Artist Talk—Kristi Engle Gallery, Artist Talk, Los Angeles, CA 2008
Artist Talk—LA Artcore, Artist Talk, Los Angeles, CA 2007
Artist Talk—McNish Gallery, Oxnard College, Artist Talk, Oxnard, CA 2005
Film & Video Committee—Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA 2003-2004
Panelist—Gahlberg Arts Center, Glen Ellyn, IL 1997
Time Arts Committee—N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL 1994-1996
PUBLISHED ARTS WRITING
"TEXTING:Julia Schwartz at LA Visitor Welcome Center," Two Coats of Paint, Aug 12, 2018
"Made in LA: The personal is political," Two Coats of Paint, June 20, 2018
“The Desert is Not Barren, 2: John Plowman and Bernard Leibov at BoxoPROJECTS,” Two Coats of Paint, Feb. 18, 2018
“The Desert is Not Barren, Part 1,”Two Coats of Paint, Feb. 7, 2018
“15 Questions for Abigail Lucien,” Locate Arts, July 21, 2016
“Street Smarts: Charles Goldman at Songs For Presidents,” Two Coats of Paint, June 22, 2016
"Forged by a Creative Community ," Nashville Arts Magazine, April, 2015
"PhotoNOLA and The Big Easy," Nashville Scene, Dec. 17, 2014
"Mary Addison Hackett's Report From Miami, Day 1: Basel," Two Coats of Paint, Dec 6, 2013
"Mary Addison Hackett's Final Miami Round-up," Two Coats of Paint, Dec 9, 2013
"Miami, Day 4: Claire Sherman, Enrique Martínez Celaya, Joel Kyack and More," Nashville Scene, Dec 11, 2013
"David Lusk Gallery, Keith Mayerson, Julian Schnabel and More," Nashville Scene, Dec. 10, 2013
"Miami, Day 2: Daniel Heidkamp, Cordy Ryman, Fahamu Pecou and More," Nashville Scene, Dec. 7, 2013
"The Miami Art Fairs are Decadent and Depraved," Nashville Scene, DEC 6, 2013
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
J. Paul Getty Trust, Research Institute Library, Los Angeles, CA
Music City Center Public Art Collection, Nashville, TN
Phyllis and Ross Escalette Permanent Collection of Art, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Private Collections