Hackett, Mary Addison

Mary Addison Hackett (b.1961) is an artist who uses her day-to-day life as a catalyst for ongoing critical investigation. Her visual language is informed by research and prompted by curiosity and temporal moments in the everyday world. Her practice spans painting, photography, video, and writing.

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, Burnaway, New American Paintings, Two Coats of Paint, and The Nashville Scene. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Getty Research Institute, the Escalette Permanent Collection of Art, the Riverside Art Museum, and has been supported by the Desert X Artist Relief Fund, the Tennessee Arts Commission, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and residencies in the United States and abroad. She was a nominee for the 2022 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship Grant.

Mary Addison Hackett was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. She earned her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her BFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She spent several years documenting rural life Joshua Tree, California before returning to the American South in 2021. She is currently based in Nashville, Tennessee.