DR. SETH FEMAN
Seth Feman was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, and returned to the city to become the Executive Director and CEO of the Frist Art Museum in April 2022. Previously, Feman was the Deputy Director for Art & Interpretation at the Chrysler Museum of Art, where he oversaw the curatorial, education, and registration departments and served as Curator of Photography. His exhibitions and essays on American art and photography examine how qualities of affect, mobility, and vision become embedded in museum spaces, the built environment, the language of the media, and specific works of art. He was the co-curator of the exhibition Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful, which was presented at the Frist in 2022
His scholarship and exhibitions have received support from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Getty Foundation, the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Feman has taught at the College of William and Mary and at Lewis and Clark College and has worked as an educator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He received his BA in art history from Vassar College and his MA and PhD in American studies from the College of William and Mary.