Past Exhibitions
Curator Tour of Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist
2024 Middle Tennessee Scholastic Art Exhibition
2023 Martin Shallenberger Artist-in-Residence Sarah Nguyen
Positioning the Body: Explorations in American Figural Studies
LIGHT: Bruce Munro at Cheekwood
Featuring the work of British installation artist Bruce Munro, LIGHT: Bruce Munro at Cheekwood celebrates the 10th anniversary of an exhibition by the same name held at Cheekwood in 2013.
Carmen Herrera: Estructuras
American artist Carmen Herrera will be featured in Cheekwood’s gardens. It’s an opportunity to celebrate this indomitable woman’s lifelong passion for creating art.
Orchids in the Mansion
The Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Ruralism and Regionalism in American Art
In the early 20th century, Regionalist art celebrated American agrarianism and its adherents with emotion-laden landscape scenes.
Spanning the Atlantic: The Arts & Crafts Movement in America
Spanning the Atlantic: The Arts & Crafts Movement in America brings together over 100 objects from this period.
Inside the World of Charles Addams
“They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky,” so describes the characters to spring forth from the mind of Charles Addams.
Glamour & Style: Portrait Photography from the Golden Age of Cinema
Get a glimpse into Hollywood’s Golden Age through the photographs of George Hurrell.
INTERVENTIONS: Michael Eden
Made with 3D printing technology and displayed throughout the period rooms, Eden’s works are visual links to the historic objects in the Cheek’s collection.
Two-Part Tour: Light, Space, Surface at the Frist Art Museum and James Turrell’s Blue Pesher at Cheekwood Estate & Gardens
Two-Part Tour:
Light, Space, Surface at the Frist Art Museum and James Turrell’s Blue Pesher at Cheekwood Estate & Gardens
Chroma: The Exploration of Color Field Printing
This exhibition features works by artists who embraced the boldness of pure, saturated hues and regularly employed basic geometric shapes in their compositions.
COLORSCAPES
COLORSCAPES is an immersive, site-specific installation by the Chicago collaborative Luftwerk.
2022 Martin Shallenberger Artist-in-Residence Craig Black
Craig Black is a Scottish visual artist who specializes in bespoke artwork, murals, and installations.
Spanning the Atlantic: The Arts and Crafts Movement
2022 Middle Tennessee Scholastic Art Awards
Orchids in the Mansion
A Valentine’s Day Wedding Legacy
The Wildly Weird World of Werner Wildner
Manhattan Memories: Soaring Towers and Park Visions of Jefferson Hayman and A.C. Webb
Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Capturing Culture
INTERVENTIONS: Fortuna
2021 Martin Shallenberger Artist-in-Residence Michael McMath
The Sculpture of William Edmondson: Tombstones, Garden Ornaments, and Stonework
Art Bark
En Plein Air
For the second year, Cheekwood will invite established Nashville painters to use our spring blooms as inspiration in the annual En Plein Air exhibition.
MINIMALISM
Sean Kenney’s Nature POP! Made with LEGO® Bricks
In a New Light: American Impressionism 1870-1940
Women to Watch: Celebrating the Centennial of Women’s Suffrage
2021 Middle Tennessee Scholastic Art Awards
Umwelts 2019 (As the Crow Flies)
Cheekwood welcomes David Brooks as its 2019 Artist-in-Residence. Brooks will explore the connection between the built and natural worlds.