Biography - Alison Jacques Gallery

SHEILA HICKS
Born 1934 in Hastings, NE
Lives and works in Paris, France
EDUCATION
1959
1957
MFA, Yale University
BFA, Yale University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2008
2007
2006
2005
1999
1997
1995
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1983
Sheila Hicks, Musee Carnavalet, Paris, France
Sheila Hicks – Farandoulo, Espace Muralle, Geneva, Switzerland
Sheila Hicks | Why Not., TextielMuseum, Tilburg, Netherlands
Sheila Hicks, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Sheila Hicks, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri
Sheila Hicks: Indeed, Foundation de 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium
Sheila Hicks, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Sheila Hicks, Sikkema Jenkins, New York, USA
Sheila Hicks, Davis & Langdale Company, Inc., New York
Sheila Hicks, Musées nationaux du Palais de Compiègne, Compiègne, France
Unknown Data, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France
Sheila Hicks, Sikkema Jenkins, New York, USA
Fiji Island-Fil, site-specific installation organized by Le Consortium, Dijon, 8, rue Saint Bon,
Paris, France
Interventions on the Building: Baôli,, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
La Pêcher Dans La Rivière, Alison Jacques Gallery, London
Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Sheila Hicks: 50 years, Mint Museum, Charlotte, N.C.
Sheila Hicks: One Hundred Minimes, Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
Sheila Hicks: 50 years, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Cent Minimes, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Sheila Hicks: 50 years, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Sheila Hicks – Hors Normes, Sculptures Textiles, Passage de Retz, Paris
Sheila Hicks Minimes Small Woven Sculptures, Davis & Langdale Company, Inc., New York
Entrelaces par Sheila Hicks, Passage de Retz, Paris
Sheila Hicks: Weaving as Metaphor, Bard Graduate Centre for Studies in Decorative Arts,
Design and Culture, New York
Sheila Hicks, Soie et Ardoise, Petites Pieces, Centre des Expositions, Trelaze, France
Seeds to the Wind, Contemporary Art Centre, Virginia Beach, Virginia
Galerie Fanny Guillon-Lafaille, Paris
Hastings College Art Gallery, Hastings, Nebraska
The Making of a Doncho, Kiryu Municipal Cultural Centre Gallery, Gumna, Japan
Terimoto, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Galerie Saka, Tokyo, Japan
Fuji Cultural Centre, Japan
Cultural Exchange, Walker’s Point Centre of Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
Seoul Art Centre, Seoul, Korea
Matsuya Ginza Gallery,Tokyo, Japan
Tomita Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Small Weavings, The Merrin Gallery, New York
Installation, Octagon Gallery, Belfast, Ireland
Textile, Texture, Texte, Musee des beaux arts, Pau, France
Man Ray and Sheila Hicks, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden
Art Conditioned by Life, Galerie des Femmes, Paris
Installation, Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway
1982
1981
1980
1979
1978
1977
1976
1975
1974
1973
1972
1971
1970
1969
1968
1966
1965
1963
1961
1958
Evanston Art Centre, Evanston, Illinois
Crafts Council, Sidney, Australia
Formes Tisees Tapisseries, Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, France
Newborn, Gallery/Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Galerie Carmen Martinez, Paris
Carte Blanche, Musee des Beaux Arts, Rennes, France
Bab Rouah: Sheila Hicks, Rabat, Morocco
Galerie Collection d’Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
See Saw, Johnson Art Gallery, Middlebury College, VT
Free Fall, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Suite Ouessantine, Musee de Beaux Arts, Brest, France
Miniatures, Galerie Carmen Martinez, Paris
Textiles Tailles, FIAC, Galerie Carmen Martinez, Paris
Inhabited, The American Centre, Paris
Tons and Masses, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden
Baby Time Again, Galerie Suzy Langlois, Paris
Fil, Centre des Exposition, Montreuil, France
Sheila Hicks, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
Museum of Art, Skopje, Yugoslavia
Museum of Contemporary Art, Dubrovnic, Yugoslavia
Biblioteca Americana, Bucharest, Romania
Tapisserie Mise en Liberte, Maison de la Culture, Rennes, France
Ancient Peruvian Textiles and the Work of Sheila Hicks, Maison de la Culture, Rennes,
France
Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Modern Masters Tapestries Gallery, New York
Objets ets Rituals, Frances Bouygues Headqaurters, Clamart, France
Tapis de Priere, Palacio Iturbide, Mexico D.F, Mexico
The Work of Sheila Hicks, American Institute of Architects Gallery, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Fils Dansants, Tapis aux Murs de Sheila Hicks, Dakar, Senegal; Abidjan, Ivory Coast; Galerie
Dar Lasram, Tunis, Tunisia; American Center, Milan, Italy
Les Tapies Mural de Sheila Hicks, Galerie National de Bab Rouah, Rabat, Morrocco
Formes de Fil, Musee des Beaux Arts, Brest, France
Tapissiries et Tissages de Sheila Hicks, Mobilier International, Lyon, France
Fete du Fil, Institut Franco-Americain de Rennes, France
Forme in Faden, Buchholz Gallery, Munich, Germany
American Library, Brussels, Belgium
Bensen Gallery, Bridgehampton, Long Island, New York
Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Murs et Fibres, Suzy Langlois Gallery, Paris, France
Formes Tisees – Formes Architecturales, American Cultural Centre, Paris, France
Jindrichuv Castle, Czechoslovakia
Artek Gallery, Helsinki; N.K. Inredning, Stockholm; Galerie Objet, Zurich, Switzerland
Woven Forms and Sculpture, Interiors International, London
Neve Formen der Textiles Talturig, Landes-museum, Oldenburg, Germany
Exhibiting Wool, La Pina Gallery, La Jolla, California
Knoll associates, The Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Illinois
Textiles by Sheila Hicks, The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Knoll International, Nuremberg, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Cologne, Berlin, Frankfurt and
Suttgart, Germany and Basel, Switzerland
Tejidos, Galeria Antonio Souza, Mexico D.F, Mexico
Tejidos, National Museum of Natural History, Santiago, Chile
Pinturas de S.A.W. Hicks – Fotografias de Sergio Larrain, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Santiago,
Chile
Pinturas de S.A.W. Hicks – Fotografias de Sergio Larrain, Galeria Galatea, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2002
2000
1998
1994
1993
1992
1991
1986
1979
20th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Glasgow International, Glasgow, Scotland
Weaving & We, Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, Hangzhou, China
Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016, Hauser, Wirth &
Schimmel, Los Angeles, CA
Architecture of Color: The Legacy of Luis Barragán, Timothy Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
Made in France, Demisch Danant, New York, NY
Search Versus Re-Search: Josef Albers, Artist and Educator, The Yale School of Art, New
Haven, CT
Looking Back / The 9th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York, NY
Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft & Design, Midcentury & Today, Museum of Art & Design,
New York, NY
Fiber Legends, KANEKO, Omaha, NE
wow! Woven? Entering the (sub) Textiles, KM – Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien,
Graz, Austria
Textured Planes, Demisch Danant, New York, NY
Thread Lines, Drawing Centre, New York, NY
Objects Pouvoirs Secrets, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
States of Mind, Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium
Pliage / Fold, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France
L’Almanach 14, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Cartagena Biennial, Cartagena, Colombia
Whitney Biennial, New York, NY
Fiber: Sculpture 1969 – Present, curated by Jenelle Porter, ICA, Boston, MA; travelling to
Wexner Center for the Arts, Colombus, OH, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Eric’s Trip, Lisa Cooley, New York, NY
Hooked and Twisted: Fiber: Sculpture 1960 – Present, West Gallery, Institute of
Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA
Material Gestures: Cut, Weave, Sew, Knot, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Shaping Modernity: Design 1880 – 1980, Part Two, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Threaded Stories, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
To Open Eyes: Art and Textiles from the Bauhaus to Today, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld,
Germany
Decorum: Tapis et Tapisseries d’artistes, Musée D’art Moderne, Paris, France
São Paulo Biennal, São Paulo
Décor et Installations, Les Gobelins Beauvais, Paris, France
Unpainted Paintings, Luxembourg & Dayan
Every Thing Design, Die Sammlungen des Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich
Elles@centrepompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Tapisserie Contemporaine et Art Textile en Europe, Académie des beaux-arts, Paris
Recent Acquisitions, 2003–2008, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum,
New York
Looking Forward/Looking Back: Recent Acquisitions in 20th-and 21st-Century Design,
Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York
Jouer la Lumiere, Musee des Arts decoratifs, Paris
Chongju International Craft Biennale, Changju, Korea
300 Year Anniversary Show, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Structure and Surface: Contemporary Japanese Textile, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Textila Magiker: Sheila Hicks – Junichi Arai, Textil Museet, Boras, Sweden
Hicks and Okada, Axis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Modern Design: 1880-1990, Twentieth Century Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, NY
Sheila Hicks and Pierette Bloch, Benno Premsela, Amsterdam
Fiber R/Evolution, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Winsconsin and Indianopolis Museum
of Art, Indianopols, Indiana
Sheila Hicks – Daniel Graffin, Musee de Tapisserie, Aix-en-Provence
1977
1973
1972
1967
1965
1963
1961
Artiste/Artisan, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
Sheila Hicks and Marc Held, Chateaux des Ducs de Bretagne, Nantes, France
Douze Ans d’Art Contemporain en France, Grand Palais, Paris, France
3eme Beinnale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Palais de
Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland
13th Triennale, Milan, Italy
Woven Forms: Alice Adams, Sheila Hicks, Lenore Tawney, Dorian Zachai, Claire Zeisler,
Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York
Gwebte Formen - Lenore Tawney, Claire Zeisler, Sheila Hicks, Kunstgewerbemuseum,
Zurich, Switzerland
New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York
SIGNIFICANT PROJECTS
2003
MADESA (Manufacturing and Design Academy of South Africa), Capetown, South Africa,
UNESCO (Led a team with UNESCO to establish a design center in Cape Town)
AW ARDS
Smithsonian Archives of American Art Medal, 2010
Gold Medal, American Crafts Council, 1997
Officier des Arts et des Lettres, France 1996
Medal of Fine Arts, French Academy of Architecture, 1985
Gold Medal, American Institute of Architects, 1975
Fullbright grant to study painting in Chile, 1954-57
Honorary Doctorate, Rhode Island School of Design
Fellow of the Kunst Akademie, The Hague, Holland
COLLECTIONS
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, USA
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA
Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA
Industriet Museum, Oslo, Norway
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA
Kustgewerbemuseum, Zurich, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum, Oldenburg, Germany
Manufacture des Gobelins, Paris, France
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN, USA
The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, USA
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 Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY, USA
Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE, USA
The North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND, USA
Okawa Museum, Kiryu, Japan
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, USA
The Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C., MD, USA
Saint Louis Art Museum, MO, USA
The Smart Museum, Chicago, IL, USA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., MD, USA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, USA
Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA