Gallery

Founded by Steven and Ana Soulios, Soulios Gallery is dedicated to advancing both classic modern and contemporary art, with a particular focus on the multiplicity of postwar artistic movements, including American Expressionism, the revival of artists often overlooked by previous generations, and video, media, and performance art. The gallery seeks to contribute to the continued growth and nourishment of Nashville’s artistic community. Soulios Gallery will exhibit museum-quality works of art, develop a program defined by scholarship, and offer personalized support in all aspects of art collecting. 

An attorney by training and a longtime collector and private dealer, Steven Soulios has been engaged in the cultural sector for decades. In the 90s, he promoted and managed bands in New York while directing SoHo’s John McEnroe Gallery, co-curating a solo exhibition of Emil Nolde and Lyonel Feininger, and bringing prominent contemporary British painters to New York in collaboration with the Flowers Gallery in London. Soulios has also organized exhibitions at the Neuberger Museum of Art, the National Arts Club, and the Museum of the City of New York. 

As the managing partner of a boutique Manhattan law firm for 25 years, Soulios has advocated for artist’s rights, vindicated the claims of employees who suffered illegal discrimination, successfully tried complex securities and commercial cases in federal and state courts across the country, and represented private equity funds, start-ups and entrepreneurs in the tech, social media, music and film, retail and global sports sectors.  

Together, with his wife and partner Ana Soulios—a dancer, actress, and teacher of dramatic arts—the couple has established a gallery committed to cultivating and advancing the careers and legacies of artists whose practices are defined by authenticity, experimentation, originality and excellence, and whose work engages with the nature of existence and meaning. Indeed, as a young, disaffected agnostic lawyer, it was fine art that played a pivotal role in Soulios’ search for truth and meaning, and facilitated his journey to faith. The profound effect art has had on him, and can have on others, and the joy of collecting fine art, are the inspiration for the establishment of the Soulios Gallery. 

The gallery will offer advisory services to private collectors, corporations, and
museums on acquisitions and assists its clients in the development of their
personal and public collections. Soulios Gallery welcomes all inquiries from collectors who may wish to sell or consign works of art or estates. The gallery can also assist in obtaining appraisals of artworks.

As the parents of a child with a disability, and believers in the power of art to inspire, reveal and heal, enlighten and connect people, and build community, Steven and Ana plan to develop an art program geared toward teaching art to the disability community in Nashville alongside their current roster of artists.