Past Exhibitons
Past Exhibitions
En Plein Air
June 4 – September 5, 2021
Sean Kenney’s Nature POP! Made with LEGO® Bricks
May 1 – September 5, 2021
Art Bark
August 3 – 29, 2021
MINIMALISM
May 8 – August 29, 2021
In a New Light: American Impressionism 1870-1940
March 13 – July 4, 2021
Women to Watch: Celebrating the Centennial of Women’s Suffrage
February 6 – May 2, 2021
Orchids in the Mansion
January 30, 2021 – February 28, 2021
The Middle Tennessee Scholastic Art Awards
February 6, 2021 – February 21, 2021
Chihuly at Cheekwood
July 18, 2020 – January 10, 2021
@home
July 22, 2020 – September 20, 2020
En Plein Air
July 18, 2020 – September 6, 2020
2020 Martin Shallenberger Artist-in-Residence Hiroshi Sato
January 31, 2020 – June 14, 2020
The Middle Tennessee Scholastic Art Awards
January 31, 2020 – March 15, 2020
Orchids in the Mansion
January 31, 2020 – March 1, 2020
Selections from The Cheekwood Collection
October 5, 2019 – January 5, 2020
2019 Martin Shallenberger Artist-in-Residence David Brooks
September 19, 2019 – January 5, 2020
Childhood Classics: 100 Years of Children’s Book Illustrations
June 22, 2019 – September 22, 2019
Diana Al-Hadid: Sublimations
May 24, 2019 – September 1, 2019
In Bloom: Works from Cheekwood’s Permanent Collection
March 21, 2019 – August 25, 2019
Derived from the Decorative: Works by Faig Ahmed, Beth Lipman and Bouke de Vries
February 1, 2019 – June 9, 2019
The Middle Tennessee Scholastic Art Awards
February 2, 2019 – March 3, 2019
Orchids in the Mansion
February 1, 2019 – March 3, 2019
Continuity of Context: Five Artists in Dialogue with Cheekwood’s Collection
September 22, 2018 – January 6, 2019
2018 Martin Shallenberger Artist-in-Residence: Gabriel Dawe
September 22, 2018 – December 30, 2018
Cracking Art
June 16, 2018 – September 2, 2018
Amanda Parer: Intrude
May 1, 2018 – May 27, 2018
1958-2018: Sixty Years of Collecting at Cheekwood
March 17, 2018 – May 27, 2018
The Middle Tennessee Scholastic Art Awards
February 3, 2018 – March 4, 2018
Snowbound
November 24, 2017 – January 14, 2018
Estates of Elegance: Bryant Fleming and the American Country Place Era
October 7, 2017 – January 14, 2018
Visions from Above: The Life and Work of William Edmondson
June 16, 2017 – September 17, 2017
Dressing Downton: Changing Fashion for Changing Times
June 16, 2017 – September 17, 2017
Achromatic
November 5, 2016 – January 1, 2017
American Artists at Home and Abroad
June 18, 2016 – January 1, 2017
Kensuke Yamada – Diving Through Clouds
June 11, 2016 – October 16, 2016
International Playhouses
May 21, 2016 – September 4, 2016
Steve Tobin: Southern Roots
March 19, 2016 – September 4, 2016
Cheekwood POP
November 27, 2015 – January 31, 2016
Norman Rockwell’s Home for the Holidays
November 27, 2015 – January 17, 2016
Jaume Plensa: Human Landscape
May 22, 2015 – November 1, 2015
2015 Artist-in-Residence: Soo Sunny Park
August 8, 2015 – October 25, 2015
Charles Brindley: Trees of Myth and Legend
February 4, 2015 – April 19, 2015
Patrick Dougherty: Little Bitty Pretty One
March 22, 2014 – April 26, 2015
William Edmondson and Friends: Breaking the Mold
September 27, 2014 – January 4, 2015
Eduardo Paolozzi: Portfolio Selections
July 12, 2014 – November 2, 2014
Cheekwood Pop-Up Gallery featuring Lonnie Holley
October 4, 2014 – October 11, 2014
Fashion: Flowers (Andy Warhol Film Screening)
July, 2014
Andy Warhol’s Flowers
June 14, 2014 – September 7, 2014
David Rogers’ Big Bugs
May 23, 2014 – September 7, 2014
Patrick Dougherty: Stickwork Photographs
March 22, 2014 – June 29, 2014
Japanese Woodblock Prints: Selections from The Judith and Joseph Barker Collection
March 22, 2014 – May 25, 2014
Modern Twist: Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Art
March 22, 2014 – May 25, 2014
More Love: Art, Politics and Sharing since the 1990s
September 20, 2013 – January 5, 2014
LIGHT: Bruce Munro at Cheekwood
May 24, 2013 – November 10, 2013
More Love Pop-Up Gallery
October 5, 2013 – November 2, 2013
Permanent Residents: Artists from Cheekwood’s Collection
March 31, 2012 – August 25, 2013
Affectionately Yours: American Miniature Portraits and the Stories They Tell
February 14, 2013 – August 25, 2013
Trains at Cheekwood
November 23, 2012 – December 30 2012
Treehouses: Great Works of Literature
May 26, 2012 – September 3, 2012
Visions of the American West: Masterworks from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center
October 22, 2011 – March 4, 2012
Trains! Tennessee in G
April 9, 2011 – December 31, 2011
David Wood: Double Heliotrope: A Conversation between Earth and Water
May 30, 2011 – October 31, 2011
Drawn to Nature
July 16, 2011 – October 2, 2011
William Edmondson: The Hand and the Spirit
August 2011
Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
March 19, 2011 – June 19, 2011
The Matilda Geddings Gray Collection of Fabergé
March 20, 2007 – June 5, 2011
Cheekwood Collects: The First 50 Years
October 9, 2010 – January 2, 2011
Chihuly at Cheekwood
May 25, 2010 – November 7, 2010
The American Impressionists in the Garden
March 13, 2010 – September 6, 2010
From Washington to Warhol: Americana Redefined
July 11, 2009 – January 3, 2010
Passing Time: The Art of William Christenberry
March 14, 2009 – June 14, 2009
Artists Collect: The Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong Private Collection
October 11, 2008 – January 4, 2009
A Century on Paper
June 28, 2008 – September 21, 2008
Happily Ever After
May 24, 2008 – September 7, 2008
Painters of American Life: The Eight
March 7, 2008 – June 15, 2008
A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era
October 6, 2007 – December 30, 2007
Music City Picks: Choices from Cheekwood’s Collection
July 7, 2007 – September 16, 2007
Once Upon a Garden
May 26, 2007 – September 9, 2007
Material Terrain: A Sculptural Exploration of Landscape and Place
March 17, 2007 – June 17, 2007
Portraiture: Private Lives / Public Faces
September 9, 2006 – December 31, 2006
Looking East: Orientalist Art From Nashville Collections
May 13, 2006 – December 31, 2006
American Art Pottery: From Rookwood to Weller
October 2006