About the artist...

Read the New York Times article on Noah Saterstrom's 2024 exhibition What Became of Dr. Smith at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, MS. 

I aspire to a form of autobiography that allows for not only the concrete facts of the everyday (the details of my studio, the people and world around me, my ancestors) but also the improvisational elements of intrusive thoughts, memories, myths, and metaphors. The figure has always been central to my interests as a painter. Unsettling ancestral narratives have long been a generative force in my work as well, and these paintings are part of a larger inquiry into how to both paint and ultimately discuss difficult stories. Whether I paint about my family’s involvement in the cruel institution of slavery in Mississippi, or about the erasure of my great-grandfather due to his mental illness, the impulse is to use paint as a positive tool of communication and exploration.

Raised in Mississippi and educated at Scotland’s Glasgow School of Art, Noah Saterstrom’s paintings, drawings, and animations have been shown most recently in New Orleans, LA; Jackson, MS; Kingston, NY, Nashville, TN; Asheville, NC; New York, NY; Seattle, WA; Brooklyn, NY; Tucson, AZ and Glasgow, Scotland. He has collaborated with writers including Laynie Browne, Anne Waldman, Julia R. Gordon, Joan Fiset, and Kate Bernheimer. He has published art-related essays and articles and was a regular contributor to Nashville Arts Magazine. His painting “Road to Shubuta” was acquired by the Mississippi Museum of Art in 2018. His painting “Maeve” is the cover of Ann Patchett’s newest book, The Dutch House (Harper Collins, 2019).

Saterstrom’s work resides in private and public collections throughout the United States as wellas Canada, Scotland, England, South Africa, Australia, Singapore, Japan, and Panama. He hasbeen Artist-in-Residence for HRH Prince Charles at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Morris and Spottiswood in Glasgow, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and Exploded View Microcinema in Tucson. His paintings are widely collected by the Ritz-Carlton New Orleans and the Westin Jackson. He lives in Nashville with his wife and three kids.

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