Sheila Hicks

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Sheila Hicks

Sheila Hicks (born in Hastings, Nebraska July 24, 1934)[citation needed] is an American artist. She has lived and worked in Paris, France since 1964. Prior to that she lived in Guerrero, Mexico (1959–63).

Early life

She graduated from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois (1952), attended Syracuse University in New York (1952–54), Yale University School of Art and Architecture (1954-1959), where she earned a BFA in painting (1957) and MFA in painting (1959) studying with Josef Albers, Rico Lebrun, and Bernard Chaet. She also studied photography with Herbert Matter. Professor George Kubler supervised her thesis on pre-Incaic textiles. Hicks was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study and paint in Chile (1957–58). She took advantage of the travel grant to visit and photograph archeological sites in Peru and Bolivia. Her enthusiasm for pre-Columbian textiles inspired the 2 and 3 dimensional woven works that she began making in the late 1950s and which she continues to create.

Solo Exhibitions

1958 Tejidos, National Museum of Natural History, Santiago, Chile; pinturas de s.a.w. hicks—fotografias de Sergio larrain, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile

1961 Tejidos—Sheila Hicks, Galeria Antonio Souza, Mexico, D.F.

1963 The Textiles of Sheila Hicks, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA Sheila Hicks, Knoll International, Nuremberg, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Cologne, Berlin, Frankfurt & Stuttgart, Germany; Basel, Switzerland; London, UK

1965 Woven Forms and Sculpture: Sheila Hicks, Interiors International (Knoll), London, England Gewebte Formen, Landesmuseum, Oldenburg, Germany

1970 Fete du Fil, Institut Franco-Americain de Rennes, France; Forme in Faden, Buchholz Gallery, Munich, Germany; American Library, Brussels, Belgium

1971 Formes de Fil, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brest, France

1972 Fils Dansants, Tapis aux Murs de Sheila Hicks, American Cultural Center, Dakar, Senegal; Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire; American Center, Milan, Italy

1974 Sheila Hicks, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1976 Tapisserie Mise en Liberte; Ancient Peruvian Textiles and the Work of Sheila Hicks, Maison de la Culture, Rennes, France

1977 Muzeja savremene umetnosti, Belgrade; Museum of Art, Skopje, Macedonia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Dubrovnic, Yugoslavia; Biblioteca Americana, Bucharest, Romania

1978 Tons and Masses, Sheila Hicks, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden

1979 Suite Ouessantine, Musée de Beaux-Arts, Brest, France Inhabited, American Center, Paris, France

1980 Free Fall, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Small Jump, American Cultural Centre, Tel Aviv, Israel

1981 Carte Blanche, Musée des Beaux Arts, Rennes, France

1987 Textile, Texture, Texte, Musée de Beaux Arts, Pau, France

1991 Soft Logic, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea; Centre Culturel Francais, Seoul, Korea

1992 Cultural Exchange, Walker’s Point Center of the Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Sheila Hicks v Prague, Umeleckoprumyslove Muzeum, Prague, Czechoslovakia

1993 Small Works, Saka Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1994 Textile Magiker: Sheila Hicks-Junichi Arai, Textile Museet, Boras, Sweden

1996 Art of Sheila Hicks, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, Nebraska

1997 Sheila Hicks: The Making of a Doncho, Municipal Cultural Center Gallery, Kiryu, Gunma, Japan

1999 Sheila Hicks: Seeds to the Wind, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Virginia

2007 Entrelacs de Sheila Hicks. Textiles et vanneries d’Afrique et d’Océanie de la collection Ghysels, Passage de Retz, Paris France

2008 Sheila Hicks Minimes: Small Woven Works, Davis & Langdale Company, Inc. New York, NY

2010 Sheila Hicks: 50 Years, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, PA, and Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC; Sheila Hicks: Hors norms, sculptures textiles, Passage de Retz, Paris, France

2011 Sheila Hicks - One Hundred Minimes, The Museum of Decorative Arts (UPM), Prague, The Czech Republic; Sheila Hicks - 100 Minimes, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2012 Sheila Hicks, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

2013 Pêcher dans la Rivière, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions

1961 New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York

1963 Gwebte Formen - Lenore Tawney, Claire Zeisler, Sheila Hicks, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zurich, Switzerland; Woven Forms: Alice Adams, Sheila Hicks, Lenore Tawney, Dorian Zachai, Claire Zeisler, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York

1965 13th Triennale, Milan, Italy

1967 3ème Beinnale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland

1972 Douze Ans d'Art Contemporain en France, Grand Palais, Paris, France

1973 Sheila Hicks and Marc Held, Chateaux des Ducs de Bretagne, Nantes, France

1977 Artiste/Artisan, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France

1979 Sheila Hicks - Daniel Graffin, Musée de Tapisserie, Aix-en-Provence, France

1986 Fiber R/Evolution, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Winsconsin and Indianopolis Museum of Art, Indianopols, Indiana

1991 Sheila Hicks and Pierette Bloch chez Benno Premsela, Amsterdam

1992 Modern Design: 1880-1990, Twentieth Century Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA

1994 Textila Magiker: Sheila Hicks - Junichi Arai, Textil Museet, Boras, Sweden

1998 Structure and Surface: Contemporary Japanese Textile, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2002 Jouer la Lumière, Musée des Arts decoratifs, Paris, France International Craft Biennale, Chongju, Korea

2008 Looking Forward/Looking Back: Recent Acquisitions in 20th-and 21st-Century Design, Recent Acquisitions, 2003-2008, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York

2009 Tapisserie Contemporaine et Art Textile en Europe, Académie des Beaux Arts, Paris, France

2010 Elles@centrepompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Every Thing Design, Die Sammlungen des Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland; Paintings Works on Paper Objects, Davis & Langdale Company, Inc. New York, NY

2011 Décor et Installations, Les Gobelins Paris and at the Galerie de Beauvais, France; Becoming Something Found, Jolie Laide Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2012-13 The Imminence of Poetics. 30th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil; Grand Opening, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2013 Calder Foundation presents: They Might Well Have Been Remnants of The Boat, The High Line Hotel, New York, NY; Brute Force of Materials, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Peruvian Four-Selvaged Cloth: Ancient Threads/New Directions, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Decorum, Musée d’art moderne, Paris, France; To Open Eyes – Kunst und Textil von Bauhaus bis heute, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany; Textiles: Open Letter, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany; Threaded Stories, Stephan Friedman Gallery, London, UK

Awards & Honors

Fulbright grant to paint in Chile, 1957–58; Fribourg grant to paint in France, 1959–60; Medal, American Institute of Architects, USA, 1975; Janson Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art, Middlebury College,Vermont,1980; Fellow, American Craft Council, New York, NY, 1983; Honorary Doctorate, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1984; Silver Medal of Fine Arts, French Academy of Architecture, Paris, France 1985; Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministry of Culture, Paris, France,1987; Officier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministry of Culture, Paris, France, 1993; Gold Medal, American Crafts Council, NY, 1997; The Textile Museum, 25 Year Honoree, Washington, D.C., 2007; Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2010; Silver Medal, Neocon, Chicago, Ill. 2013

[1]==Museum Collections==

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, NY; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Industriet Museum, Oslo, Norway; Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ; Kustgewerbemuseum, Zurich, Switzerland; Kunstmuseum, Oldenburg, Germany; Manufacture des Gobelins, Paris, France; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France; Musée des Beaux Arts, Brest, France; Musée des Beaux Arts, Pau, France; Musée de la Mode et du Textile, Paris, France; Musée de la Tapisserie, Angers, France; Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico; Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY; Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, Czech Republic; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; The Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE; The North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND; Okawa Museum, Kiryu, Japan; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; The Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C., MD; Saint Louis Art Museum, MO; The Smart Museum, Chicago, IL; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Public Commissions

Ford Foundation, NY, 1967; Georg Jensen Center for Advanced Design, NY; Air France Boeing 747 planes, 1969–74; TWA terminal at JFK Airport, NY, 1973; CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System), NY; Rochester Institute of Technology, NY; Banque Rothschild, Paris, France; Francis Bouygues, Paris, France; IBM, Paris, France, 1972; Kodak, Paris, France ; Fiat Tower, Paris, Franc; MGIC Investment Corporation, Milwaukee, WI; King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1983 ; Kellogg’s, Michigan; Fuji City, Cultural Center, Japan, 1999; Institute of Advance Study, Princeton, NJ; SD26 Restaurant, NY, 2009; Ford Foundation (reconstructed), NY, 2013

Bibliography

  • "Sheila Hicks", by Monique Lévi-Strauss, Pierre Horay, editeur, Paris, and Suzy Langlois, Art Mural, 1973. ISBN 2-7058-0009-3
  • Faxon, Susan C., Joan Simon and Whitney Chadwick: "Sheila Hicks: 50 Years", Yale University Press/Addison Gallery of American Art, 2010, ISBN 978-0-300-12164-3.
  • Danto, Arthur Coleman, Joan Simon, Nina Stritzler-Levine, and the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture: Sheila Hicks weaving as metaphor, Yale University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-300-11685-4.
  • One Work: Sheila Hicks at the Mint, published by The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina in association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London. 2012. ISBN 978-0-300-19085-4. Designed by Irma Boom, Amsterdam.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Sheila Hicks Weaving as Metaphor, Yale University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-300-11685-4

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