SHEILA HICKS (born 1934)
www.sheilahicks.com
DAVIS & LANGDALE COMPANY, INC.
231 EAST 60 STREET
NEW YORK, NY 10022

Tel:  212-838-0333
Fax:  212-752-7764
BIOGRAPHY:
 
1934 Born July 24, Hastings, Nebraska
1954-59      Yale University: Painting, B.F.A. 1957; M.F.A. 1959
1957-58      Fulbright Scholarship to Chile
1959-60      Fribourg Grant to France
1960-64      Lives in Mexico: paints, weaves, photographs 
1964 to        Lives in France: weaves, photographs, designs textiles, creates
present:      sculpture in fabric
 
 
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:
 
The Art Institute of Chicago
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York
Denver Art Museum
Industriet Museum, Oslo, Norway
Kustgewerbemuseum, Zurich
Kunstmuseum, Oldenburg, Germany
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Milwaukee Art Museum
Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Musée des Beaux Arts, Brest, France
Musée des Beaux Arts, Pau, France
Musée de la Tapisserie, Angers, France
Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
Museum of Art and Design, New York
Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
The Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney
The North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
Okawa Museum, Kiryu, Japan
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Saint Louis Art Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
EXHIBITIONS:
 
2010-12     Addison Gallery of American Art, at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts;
       ICA, Philadelphia; Mint Museum, Charlotte, N.C., Sheila Hicks: 50 Years
2011Luxembourg & Dayan, New York
2010Passage de Retz, Paris
2009-10     Centre Pompidou, Paris
2008Davis & Langdale Company, Inc., New York
2007Passage de Retz, Paris
2006Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York
2005Centre des expositions, Trélazé, France
2004Galerie Fanny Guillon-Lafaille, Paris
1999Contemporary Art Center, Virginia Beach, Virginia
1997Kiryu Cultural Center, Japan
1995Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
1993Gallery Saka, Tokyo
1992Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague
1991Seoul Art Center, Korea
1988The Merrin Gallery, New York
       Octagon Gallery, Belfast
1987Musée des Beaux Arts, Pau, France
1986Lunds Konstall, Sweden
1985Galerie des Femmes, Paris
1983Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo
1982Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, France
1981Galerie Collection d’art, Amsterdam
       Musée des Beaux Arts, Rennes, France
1980Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1979Galerie Carmen Martinez, Paris
       Musée des Beaux Arts, Brest, France
1978Lunds Konstall, Sweden
       Galerie Langlois, Paris
       Centre des Expositions, Montreuil, France
1977Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
1976Maison de la Culture, Rennes, France
1975Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne
1974Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1971Galerie National, Rabat, Morocco
1970Buchholtz Gallery, Munich
1969Bensen Gallery, Long Island, New York
1966Artek Gallery, Helsinki
1963The Art Institute of Chicago
1961Galeria Antonio Souza, Mexico
1958Palacio de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
 
 
 

SHEILA HICKS currently has a retrospective at the Addison Gallery of American Art, at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, Sheila Hicks: 50 Years, November 5, 2010 - February 11, 2011; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, March 25 - August 7, 2011;
Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC, October 1, 2011 - January 29, 2012