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Frist Art Museum
919 Broadway, Nashville, Tennessee, 37203
Sept 25, 2026–Jan 3, 2027
Ingram Gallery
Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman features 16 artists, including Marina Zurkow, working with both analog and emergent technologies to visualize the interrelationship between humanity, other species, and the earth itself. Using media such as digital animation, augmented and virtual reality, and artificial intelligence, artists challenge the view of human exceptionalism that prevents an ethics of care for the planet. Like the surrealists, these artists tap into the transformative agency of the marvelous, the uncanny, and the unpredictable. In their fluid and floating creations, images morph, flicker, and dance, forming psychologically charged archetypes within a new collective unconscious.
Pictured: Marina Zurkow, Mesocosm (Wink, TX), 2012
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Child/ren of the Bloom by LaJuné McMillian is an interactive, multidisciplinary installation that explores the threshold between land and sea, and the body’s return to its origins. Developed alongside the artist’s 2026 OceanX Education’s artist residency, piloted in partnership with Pioneer Works, the exhibition transforms her research on phytoplankton, algal blooms, and bioluminescence into a spiritual, embodied encounter with oceanic systems.
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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Look Alive presents a selection of installations by the internationally acclaimed Mexican-Canadian artist, whose work over the past three decades has explored the intersections of contemporary art, architecture, performance, and technology. Featuring the premiere of Pulse Map, the newest work in the artist’s celebrated Pulse series, the exhibition invites visitors into responsive environments that evolve through light, movement, sound, and participation.
UPCOMING: OFFSITE
In TIME FRAMES, Siebren Versteeg presents five live-feed video artworks that transform familiar places through techniques of re-cropping, mirroring, pixelation, and other forms of digital manipulation. Installed on flat-screen monitors within the gallery’s hallway vitrines, each video is surrounded by a painted frame bearing the work’s title. Fabricated in collaboration with artist April Childers, the frames connect the individual works into a continuous visual poem along the corridor while extending authorship, along with the live video feeds, beyond that of the individual artist.