"Birds of Prey," 8 ft x 8 ft, oil on board, 2026
The Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN, "In Her Place"
Photographer: Ava Houghton 

Upcoming Exhibitions: 
Fall 2027 Solo Show: Tri-Star Arts Gallery, Condora Marble, Knoxville, TN, Curated by Brian Job, Director and Co-Founder of Tri-Star Arts. 
March 5th-April 30th 2027: “Patterns and Repetition”, Four Person Exhibition, Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden, AL, Curated Artists: Kimberly Dummons, Kathleen O’Connell, and Erin Anfinson

2026 Exhibitions & News: 
Oct.26th-Dec. 10th, 2026 Solo Show: “When Sorrows Come…”, The Art Gallery, SKYCTC, Bowling Green, KY  Curated by Leslie Nichols
​Aug. 7th-Sept. 27th, 2026: “TeN: Adapted/Adopted Asianx Women TN Artists, Emporium Center, Knoxville, TN
Curated by Karlota Contreras-Koterbay, Director of ETSU Tipton &Slocumb Galleries.
Jan. 29th-April 26th, 2026: "In Her Place," The Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN, Curators: Katie Delmez (Senior Curator), Shaun Giles, and Sai Clayton
Catalog: In Her Place, book, 192 pages, ISBN 9780826508348
www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/9780826508348/in-her-place/
Interview: In Her Place, Frist Art Museum Artist interview
​www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4K4Jh42gjU
April 15, 2026: Locate Art Interview, Blog “The Focus” by Rachel Bubis, locatearts.org/the-focus/2026/interview-sisavanh-phouthavong
February 9, 2026:Teaching and Learning in Art Education: Cultivating Students’ Potential from Pre-K through High School, 2nd Edition by Debrah Sickler-Voigt, 494 pages, ISBN 1032760931
​www.amazon.com/Teaching-Learning-Art-Education-Cultivating-dp-1032760931/dp/1032760931/ref=dp_ob_title_bk#detailBullets_feature_div
Jan. 10th-Feb. 14, 2026: “Tinney 20”, Group Exhibition, Tinney Contemporary Gallery, Nashville, TN
Oct. 14th-16th, 2025: “Hot Off the Wall”, Dixon Gallery and Garden, Memphis, TN* One-week group exhibition annual art sale/ fundraiser. Invited by Ellen Daugherty, Assistant Curator

Juror, Workshops, Talks:
June 19-26, 2027: Flower Glitch Oil Painting Workshop, Shakerag Workshop, Sewanee, TN
Sept. 19, 2026: Flower Glitch Acrylic Painting Workshop, TAEA (TN Art Education Association Conference) MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN
Oct. 26, 2026: Artist Talk, SKYCTC Gallery (Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College, Bowling Green, KY
June 2026: Arcade Residency Program, Nashville, TN
arcadearts.org/selection-panel-2026-2027/
May 2026: Metro Arts NYCe Artist Selective Panel, Nashville, TN
April 9, 2026:  "In Her Place Artist Mentorship Mixer. The Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN 
April 19, 2026: "Flower Glitch Acrylic Painting" Adult ARTlab: The Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (18 Participants)

Short Biography: 
Sisavanh Phouthavong Houghton is a Lao American artist and Art Professor who creates paintings and installations in various mixed media. She merges archival and contemporary imagery to examine the enduring and complex legacy of war, drawing on her experience as a Lao American refugee immigrant. Her artwork explores the collective trauma of past historical wars and holds deeply human stories of memory, resilience, and the passage of time. She received her BFA from the University of Kansas, followed by an MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and has maintained an ongoing studio practice and extensive exhibition record for the past twenty years.

Longer Biography:
 
Sisavanh Phouthavong Houghton is a Lao American interdisciplinary visual artist and Painting Professor at Middle Tennessee State University. Recently exhibited internationally in Italy and Greece and nationally at The Frist Art Museum, The Knoxville Museum of Art, and Susquehanna Art Museum. She has been featured in The New Art Examiner, NPT Arts Break, The Next-Door Neighbor, and Drawing South podcasts. Permanent collections include the Hunter Museum of American Art, the American Embassy, Paramaribo, Suriname, and Pinnacle Banks. Houghton earned her BFA from the University of Kansas and an MFA from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL. In 2024, Sisavanh won the first MTSU C-USA Faculty Achievement Award and represented MTSU as a finalist for the National C-USA Professor of the Year Award. In 2023, she won Best in Show at the 38th Positive/Negative Exhibition, and in 2022, she was awarded the Tri-Star Current Art Warhol Foundation Fund and MTSU's 2022 Distinguished Creative and Teacher of the Year Award. In 2020, nominated for the Joan Mitchell Foundation Arts Award, a 2019 Artfields' Painting Award, and a 2017 Tennessee Arts Individual Artist Fellowship recipient. She is represented by Tinney Contemporary Gallery in Nashville, TN.