NASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Art Museum announced its 2026 schedule of exhibitions, marking the museum’s 25th anniversary. In the Ingram Gallery, the year begins with In Her Place: Nashville Artists in the Twenty-First Century, an exhibition featuring paintings, sculptures, textiles, and installations made by an intergenerational group of 28 celebrated Nashville-based women. Building on recent research, The Surrealist International: Fifty Years of Dreams investigates the transnational appeal of surrealism and how it has widely permeated many areas of culture and society over the last century through the work of artists including Jean Arp, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Joan Miró, and Dorothea Tanning. Working with analog and emergent technologies, the 16 contemporary artists in Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman explore the fantastic intersections of dreams and reality, the physical and the virtual, and human creativity and nonhuman intelligences.

In the Upper-Level Galleries, The Impressionist Revolution: Monet to Matisse from the Dallas Museum of Art tells the enthralling story of impressionism from its rebellious origins in 1874 to its legacy in the early 20th century through paintings and sculptures by Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, and many others. An Indigenous Present spans 100 years of modern and contemporary Indigenous art and includes new commissions and significant works by 15 artists who use strategies of abstraction to represent personal and collective narratives. Beauty and Ritual: Judaica from The Jewish Museum, New York displays the diversity of Jewish cultures through more than 130 ceremonial objects (Judaica) from antiquity to the present, including books, silver, and textiles originating in multiple continents.

In the Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery, the Frist presents provocative narrative paintings by the late Nashville-based artist Barbara Bullock in conjunction with In Her Place. In the summer, the gallery will feature lyrical installations, works on paper, paintings, and sculptures by Pakistani American artist Anila Quayyum Agha that address some of the most urgent issues of our time.

In the always-free Conte Community Arts Gallery, an updated installation of A Landmark Repurposed: From Post Office to Art Museum documents the story of Nashville’s former main post office that the Frist Art Museum now occupies.