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Knoxville
Highlight Events

Chattanooga
Highlight Events

The highlight events will include receptions and celebrations at select participating venues.

Additionally, note community venues listings on this page for exhibitions or special projects that respond to the theme of RE-PAIR.

KNOXVILLE

  • Curated by Rachel Milford

    Lonnie Holley

  • The Big Ears exhibition for the Triennial will include both live musical performances and a site specific installation, created during the week of our annual festival (March 27-April 2, 2023) by artist Lonnie Holley (Atlanta, GA). Lonnie will work with both UTK sculpture students and K-5th grade students at Beaumont Magnet Academy to create a collaborative sculpture(s) at the Southern Railway Station during the festival, which will then remain onsite for public viewing throughout the remainder of the festival. He will also offer a free public concert on Thursday, March 30th and a ticketed performance on Friday, March 31st. Lonnie is known for his improvised music and lyrics that morph and evolve with every event, concert, and recording. He will be drawing on the Triennial’s theme of “RE-PAIR” for both of these visual and musical pieces.

  • Curated by Kelsie Conley and Stephen Wicks

    Willie Cole
    Katie Hargrave & Meredith Laura Lynn
    Bessie Harvey
    Lonnie Holley
    Kahlil Robert Irving
    Suzanne Jackson
    Mary Laube
    Annabeth Marks
    Rosemary Mayer
    Althea Murphy-Price
    Betye Saar
    Faith Wilding

  • Responding to the Triennial RE-PAIR theme about art designed “To heal, suture, and recompose fractured bodies”, “re-pair, patch, rebuild spirits, bodies, cities, political institutions, economic relationships,” the Knoxville Museum of Art presents works emphasizing the transformative power of art to propose new solutions to recent global discord.

  • Curated by Brian R. Jobe

    Kenturah Davis
    Rubens Ghenov
    Hank Willis Thomas

  • Tri-Star Arts is pleased to present the current exhibition in their main gallery at the historic Candoro Marble Building. A two-person show, Tennessee Triennial: RE-PAIR - part of the Tennessee Triennial for Contemporary Art, is composed of multimedia works by Kenturah Davis (Los Angeles, CA, USA / Accra, Ghana) and Rubens Ghenov (Knoxville, TN, USA). It opened on Friday, January 27, runs through Sunday, May 7, and will include public receptions and events held over the course of the exhibition (updates forthcoming).

    Curated by Brian R. Jobe, this exhibition was conceived with the 2023 Tennessee Triennial’s “RE-PAIR” theme in mind, authored by Consulting Curator María Magdalena Campos-Pons. For Jobe, the artists' work interrelates beautifully due to their shared use of text, actual and implied, in an expansive way. He says, “They push text together and re-form presentations of language, expression, and communication. Davis and Ghenov challenge our recognition of pictorial imagery and create other worlds that invite us in from different angles and facets.”

    Tennessee Triennial: RE-PAIR at Tri-Star Arts additionally features an outdoor sculpture by Hank Willis Thomas. Saverio and Daisy (Navel) by Hank Willis Thomas, has been installed by Tri-Star Arts on the grounds of the Candoro Marble Building to sync with the exhibitions on view, extending the conversation outdoors to an accessible public space adjacent to the driveway entrance. It will remain on the grounds through June 2023.

CHATTANOOGA

  • Curated by Nandini Makrandi

    Noel Anderson
    Dawoud Bey
    Sanford Biggers
    Nick Cave
    Leonardo Drew
    Gajin Fujita
    Fabiola Jean-Louis
    Deborah Luster
    Jeanine Michna-Bales
    Abelardo Morrell
    Shirin Neshat
    Kiki Smith
    Stan Squirewell

  • In honor of Tennessee Triennial: RE-PAIR, we are reinstalling the Hunter’s contemporary gallery with artworks that speak to repairing, and examine ideas of identity, of healing fractured bodies, of community and relationship. Artists include Nick Cave, Deborah Luster, Dawoud Bey, Fabiola Jean-Louis, Sanford Biggers, Smith and others. The majority of these are new acquisitions to the collection, and forward our mission to support women and artists of color.

  • Curated by Rachel Waldrop

    Stacy Kranitz

  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Chattanooga, as participating in the inaugural 2023 TN Triennial under the theme RE-PAIR, presents the complete opus of Stacy Kranitz’s body of work As it was Give(n) to Me (2009-2022): an expanded artist-based archive of photographs, collected images, text, and sculptural objects that traces exploration and extraction in central Appalachia over the past decade. These documents reflect on our relationship to representations of reality and the inherent flaws and ruptures in constructed notions of truth.

  • Curated by Josiah Golson

    Jequise Beverly
    Sean Clark
    Jordan Scruggs

  • And I Shall Still Be Lonely is a collective meditation and dialogue of artists’ relationships with solitude, isolation, and the creative process. Inspired by the writings and life of playwright, artist, and activist Lorraine Hansberry, the exhibition and its companion zine feature the voices of artists conversing with Hansberry’s reflections as they resonate in the present. Through engaging and re-imagining text, artists will also explore our relationships to loneliness in our historical, social, and technological contexts.

Find more art at Tennessee Triennial Community Venues