Katelin Schutt

Katelin Schutt is a Nashville-based contemporary figurative painter whose work explores transformation through the language of the human body. Working primarily in oil and watercolor, she creates surreal, dreamlike scenes where female figures move through charged environments shaped by freedom, embodiment, emotional alchemy, memory, and spiritual rebirth.

Her series, Metanoia: Change of Heart/Mind, follows an archetypal journey from darkness into illumination. Each painting uses color, movement, and the expressive force of the body to evoke threshold states — moments of surrender, becoming, and inner change. Her newer work continues this inquiry through quieter symbols of motherhood, inheritance, shadow, and the unseen emotional lives held within ordinary objects.

Schutt’s work has been featured by Arts to Hearts Project, Women United Art Movement, and the Nashville Scene, and has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Tennessee and beyond.

M.Ed. in Education (Mathematics Concentration), University of Louisville
B.A. in Music, Sewanee: The University of the South

2026 - Metanoia: Change of Heart/Mind, Solo exhibition, Electric Shed, Nashville, TN
2026 - Metanoia: Change of Heart/Mind, Solo exhibition, Pearview Gallery
2025 - Spooky, Pearview Gallery
2025 - Rising, Aplomb Gallery, Dover, NH
2024 - All Things Considered, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2024 - Expressions of Humanity (Finalist Award), Blue Space Gallery, New York, NY
2024 - Beyond the Scars, Art Fluent
2024 - Blackout Poetry & Collage Pop-Up, Random Sample Gallery, Nashville, TN
2024 - SALT Mutual Aid Society Auction, Halcyon Gallery, Nashville, TN