NASHVILLE, TN —The Frist Art Museum presents Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman, an exhibition of works by 17 contemporary artists who use both analog and emergent technologies to visualize the vital interconnectedness between humanity, other species, and the earth itself. Organized by the Frist Art Museum, the exhibition will be on view from September 25, 2026, through January 3, 2027.
Shimmer explores intersections of dreams and reality, the physical and the virtual, and human creativity and nonhuman intelligences. Using physical media ranging from deer hides to glass as well as digital tools such as CGI, augmented and virtual reality, motion capture, and generative software, artists Ian Cheng, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Marguerite Humeau, Josèfa Ntjam, Jacolby Satterwhite, Saya Woolfalk, and others offer new ways of seeing the biological, psychological, and philosophical entanglements between humans and the more-than-human world.
Curated by Frist Art Museum Chief Curator Mark Scala, Shimmer is the final project in a career-spanning series of contemporary exhibitions he has organized including Matthew Ritchie: A Garden in the Flood (2022), Chaos and Awe: Painting in the 21st Century (2018), Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art (2015), Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination (2012), and Paint Made Flesh (2009).
More information: https://fristartmuseum.org
