Curatorial Projects

The river remembers—carrying the echoes of those who fought for liberation. In Between Rivers and Revolutions, Vanessa Charlot’s lens moves between the waters of the Mississippi Delta, the tides of Haiti, and the currents off Florida’s coast and traces the spiritual, cultural, and revolutionary ties binding these landscapes.

In 1992, Donald Locke was one of the first artists in residence at Nexus, now Atlanta Contemporary. Three decades later, the exhibition returns to the site and to the 1990s as a generative chapter where an ethos of experimentation and boundlessness flourished and the idea of nexus itself permeated his work.

James Kuol Makuac has spent his life navigating between worlds. From the savannahs of South Sudan, to the plains of Ethiopia where he fled civil war, to the refugee camps in Kenya that offered temporary safety. And to Nashville, the city that nurtured his art practice of contemporary Sudanese painting for the past twenty years.

In Are We Free to Move About the World, global contemporary artists examine the great paradox of the passport in the context of our migration crisis—its ability to grant freedom of movement as well as curtail it.

In a year defined by great turmoil, sorrow, and division, Encounters features women artists from the South Asian diaspora who came together across geographical, cultural, political, and religious boundaries.

Women’s Work presents five global contemporary artists-activists who continue to expand the definition of women’s work and expose its complexity, nuance, and ever-evolving nature.

Race, Myth, Art and Justice explores the premise of “race” as a social construct rooted in myth, while simultaneously interrogating its profound implications and indignities on our 21st century lives.

Un | Fixed Homeland brings together an inter-generational roster of artists of Guyanese heritage who, via photography and photography-based art, explore their intimate relationship to the experience of migration and homeland.