Katie Delmez

Katie Delmez has been a curator at the Frist Art Museum since 2001. She has organized numerous exhibitions, including In Her Place: Nashville Artists in the Twenty-First Century; Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage (traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and The Phillips Collection); M. Florine Démosthène and Didier William: What the Body Carries; Terry Adkins: Our Sons and Daughters Ever on the Altar (with Jamaal Sheats, Director and Curator, Fisk University Galleries); We Shall Overcome: Civil Rights and the Nashville Press, 1957–1968; Nick Cave: Feat. (traveled to the Akron Art Museum, the Orlando Museum of Art, the Mississippi Museum of Art, and the Glenbow); Murals of North Nashville Now; Vadis Turner: Tempest; Shinique Smith: Wonder and Rainbows; and Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Journeys. She was also the curator of a major retrospective on photographer Carrie Mae Weems that traveled to the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Ms. Delmez has been the editor of several accompanying catalogues, with contributions from such esteemed figures as Dr. Richard Powell, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Patricia Hills, and Deb Willis, and overseen the presentation of more than 40 touring exhibitions at the Frist, including Jeffrey Gibson: The Body Electric, Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, and 30 Americans. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University (BA) and Boston University (MA).