Sheila Hicks

Born in 1934, in United States
Lives and works in Paris (France)

Sheila Hicks (b. 1934 in Hastings, Nebraska) received her BFA (1957) and MFA (1959) degrees from the Yale School of Art, when Josef Albers presided there. Awarded a Fulbright scholarship to paint in Chile, she photographed indigenous weavers and archaeological sites throughout the Andes. This, along with extended trips to the volcanic region of Villarrica, the island of Chiloé, and Tierra del Fuego, continue to influence her work to this day. In 1967 she established a studio in the quartier Latin in Paris, where she continues to live and work.

Biography

Hicks’s recent solo exhibitions include Sheila Hicks, Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis, Missouri (2015), Foray Into Chromatic Zones, Hayward Gallery, London (2015), and Bâoli, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2014--15). Her major survey in the United States, Sheila Hicks: 50 Years, debuted at Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts (2010), and travelled to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2011) and the Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina (2011). Hicks’s work has been widely exhibited in major group exhibitions, including the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2014), Thread Lines, Drawing Center, New York (2014), and Fiber Sculpture: 1960– Present, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (travelled to Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, in 2014-15) and Wow! Woven? Entering the (sub)Textiles, Künstlerhaus, Graz (2015). Following her exhibition Predestined Colour Waves at the Espace Louis Vuitton München (2015--16), she will have a solo show at Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska (2016). Hicks will also participate in the 20th Biennale of Sydney (2016), Glasgow International (2016), and the Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, China (2016).

Hicks has created monumental site-specific works for New York’s Ford Foundation Headquarters (1967, recreated 2013--14), King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (1983); the Federal Courthouse in New York (1986), the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey (2008); and the Duke Endowment in Charlotte, North Carolina (2015); among others.

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