Sean Nash

Sean Nash (b. Memphis, TN, 1980) is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose embodied research with the more-than-human world informs his artistic practice. Sean’s vibrant paintings and sculptures involve sensory curiosity, pleasure, and evolving ecological dynamics. The queer and trans ecological themes present in his work draw on his lived experience and his research into the microbial world. 

Nash’s expansive practice has included many collaborative projects and interactions with the public, community groups, other scholars, and interdisciplinary arts-researchers. Many of Sean’s solo exhibitions and projects from 2014-2020 included food fermentation as participatory and gustatory elements of sculptures and exhibition programming. He has been featured in KC Studio magazine, MOLD magazine, and Fermentation. Nash’s individual and collaborative writing on art, fermentation, and queer and trans* identity has been published in many scholarly publications, including TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly

He has held solo shows at Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY (Acid Base, 2025); TOPS Gallery, Memphis, TN (Cosmic Produce, 2025); Volland Foundation, Alma, KS (Currents of Ancients, 2024); The Kniznick Gallery, Waltham, MA (Krautsourching, 2019); Plug Projects, Kansas City, MO (Lactobacillus Amongus, 2017); and Black Ball Projects, Brooklyn, NY(They/Them/Their, 2016). In 2023 Nash’s work was shown at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, KS, in conjunction with the Charlotte Street Fellows Award. . His awards include a 2023 Charlotte Street Fellows Award, a 2017 Rocket Grant Award for Garden Variety Soda Fountain, along with other prestigious awards and residencies. He received an MFA from Yale University in painting and printmaking in 2005 and a BFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 2002. He lives and works in Kansas City, Kansas.