Photograph by Ashley Holstein

Sai Clayton (she/her) is a Nashville-based visual artist and independent curator. Clayton’s work combines autobiography with real and imagined historical icons to consider transcultural paradoxes. Her recent solo exhibitions include: Blood On My Hands, Fish In My Veins, Radar615 (2026);  [Freeze Frame], OZ Arts (2025), neutral zone, The Forge (2024); Game of Two Halves, Electric Shed (2024); and HĀFU, Random Sample (2023). Select group exhibitions include TeN: Adapted/Adopted Asianx Women TN Artists, Emporium Center, Knoxville, TN (2026); Flux, Haley Gallery (2025), Summer Break, Sheet Cake Gallery (2025), and Rise Above, Zeitgeist Gallery (2024). Residencies include the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, State Gallery, Stove Works, and the Hamblet Artist-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University. Recent curatorial projects include In Her Place, Frist Art Museum (2026) and Where Are We?, Begonia Labs (2025). She currently serves on the board of COOP Gallery and is their Curatorial Director. She was the 2021-22 Curatorial Fellow at the Frist Art Museum and is currently the Programming Director at Arcade Arts Nashville. She holds a B.A. in Visual Arts from Middle Tennessee State University.


​IG: @sai_tries
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