Sheila Hicks is an internationally renowned textile
artist known for her innovative use of material and
color. She was born in Hastings, Nebraska, and
received her BFA and MFA degrees from Yale
University. She received a Fulbright scholarship in
1957-58 to paint in Chile. While in South America
she developed her interest in working with fibers.
After founding workshops in Mexico, Chile, and
South Africa and working in Morocco and India,
she now divides her time between her Paris studio
and New York.
Hicks has exhibited internationally in both solo and group exhibitions. She was
included in the 2017 Venice Biennale, the 2014 Whitney Biennial in New York,
and the 2012 São Paulo Biennial in Brazil. Recent solo presentations include
“Lignes de Vie” at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2018, Free Threads 1954-2017
at Museo Amparo, Mexico, and “Pêcher dans La Rivière” at the Alison Jacques
Gallery, London (2013). A major retrospective, “Sheila Hicks: 50 Years,” debuted
at the Addison Gallery of American Art and traveled to the Institute of
Contemporary Art in Philadelphia and the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC.
Hicks’ work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the
Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; The Art
Institute of Chicago; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Stedelijk Museum,
Amsterdam; Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo;
Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago; solo exhibitions at the Seoul Art Center, Korea;
and Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Her numerous awards and honors include the Gold Medal from the American
Craft Council (1997), 25-year honoree from the Textile Museum in Washington,
D.C. (2007), the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Smithsonian Institution’s
Archives of American Art (2010), and an honorary doctorate from l’Ecole des
Beaux-Arts in Paris, France (2014). She has been awarded the rank of Officier in
the French Ministry of Culture’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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