Sheila Hicks
1934
Geboren in Hastings, Nebraska | Born in Hastings, Nebraska
Lebt und arbeitet in Paris | Lives and works in Paris
1959
MFA, Yale University
1957
BFA, Yale University
Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl) | Solo exhibitions (Selection)
2024
Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf
galerie frank elbaz, Paris
2023
Vers des Horizons Inconnus, collaboration with galerie frank elbaz, Massimo Minini and Meyer Riegger, Parvis de l’Institut de France, Paris
Hilos que viajan, Centre Pompidou, Malaga
In Hülle und Fülle | In Abundance : Sheila Hicks, Meyer Riegger, Berlin
a little bit of a lot of things, Kunstmuseum Sankt Gallen
2022
Off Grid, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield
Le Fil Conducteur, Musée de la Corderie-Vallois, Rouen
Woven Wonders, Coal Drops Yard, King’s Cross, London
Make an effort every day, Eenwerk, Amsterdam
2021
Avec grâce, sans impasse / Grace, No Gridlock, galerie frank elbaz, Paris
Cosmic Arrivals, Francesca Minini, Milan
Music to My Eyes, Alison Jacques, London
2020
Thread, Trees, River, MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
2019
Carte Blanche, Mobilier National, Paris
Secret Structures: Looming Presence, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Sheila Hicks: Seize, Weave Space, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
Sheila Hicks: Reencuentro, Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Santiago de Chile
Campo Abierto (Open Field), Bass Museum, Miami
Down Side Up, Sikkema Jenkins, New York
Sheila Hicks, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Migdalor, Magasin III Jaffa, Israel
Sheila Hicks, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
Hop, Skip, Jump, and Fly: Escape From Gravity, The High Line, New York
Si j’étais de laine, vous m'accepteriez?, galerie frank elbaz, Paris
Apprentissages, Festival d'Automne, Paris
Dio Mio: Grasshopper heaven, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia
Sheila Hicks: Why Not, TextielMuseum, Tilburg
Sheila Hicks: Material Voices, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, USA; Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Canada
Sheila Hicks – Farandoulo, Espace Muraille, Geneva
Sheila Hicks: Indeed, Foundation De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg
Sheila Hicks, Sikkema Jenkins, New York
Sheila Hicks: Ode to Roy Davis, Davis & Langdale, New York
Predestined: Colour Waves, Espace Louis Vuitton München, Munich
Sheila Hicks, Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis
Sheila Hicks: Foray into Chromatic Zone, Hayward Gallery, London
Sheila Hicks, Musées et domaines nationaux du Palais de Compiègne, Compiègne
Interventions on the Building: Baôli, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Unknown Data, galerie frank elbaz, Paris
Fiji Island – Fil, 8 rue St Bon, Paris (organized by Le Consortium, Dijon)
Sheila Hicks, Sikkema Jenkins, New York
Pêcher dans la rivière, Alison Jacques Gallery, London
Sikkema Jenkins, New York
Sheila Hicks: 50 years, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Sheila Hicks: One Hundred Minimes, Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague
2010
Sheila Hicks – Hors Normes, Sculptures Textiles, Passage de Retz
Sheila Hicks: 50 years, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover
2008
Sheila Hicks Minimes Small Woven Sculptures, Davis & Langdale Company, New York
2007
Entrelacs de Sheila Hicks; Textiles et vanneries d'Afrique et d'Océanie de la collection Ghysels, Passage de Retz, Paris
2006
Sheila Hicks: Weaving as Metaphor, Bard Graduate Centre for Studies in Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York
2005
Sheila Hicks, Soie et Ardoise, Petites Pièces, Centre des Expositions, Trélazé
2000
Sheila Hicks: Oeuvres récentes, Galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Paris
Sheila Hicks, Hermès, Paris
Treasures and Secrets, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago
1999
Seeds to the Wind, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach
1998
Origins Reexamined, Hastings College Art Gallery, Hastings
1997
The Making of a Doncho, Kiryu Municipal Cultural Center Gallery, Gumna, Japan
1995
Terremoto, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
1993
Small Works, Galerie Saka, Tokyo
Sheila Hicks: Four Seasons of Fuji, Fuji Cultural Center
1992
Cultural Exchange, Walker's Point Center of Arts, Milwaukee, Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague
1991
Sheila Hicks: Soft Logic, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
1990
Sheila Hicks: Soft World, Matsuya Ginza Gallery, Tokyo
1989
Tomita Gallery, Tokyo
1988
Small Weavings, The Merrin Gallery, New York
Installation by Sheila Hicks, Octagon Gallery, Belfast, Ireland
1987 Textile, Texture, Texte, Musée des Beaux Arts, Pau
1986 Man Ray and Sheila Hicks, Lunds Konsthall, Lund
1985
Art Conditioned by Life, Galerie des Femmes, Paris
1983 Installation, Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo
1982
Sheila Hicks, Evanston Art Centre, Evanston
Sheila Hicks, Crafts Council Centre Gallery, Sidney
Formes Tissées – Tapisseries, Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud
Sheila Hicks, Galerie d'Art international, Chicago
Newborn, Gallery/Gallery, Kyoto
Sheila Hicks, Galerie Carmen Martinez, Paris
1981
Carte Blanche, Musée des Beaux Arts, Rennes
Bab-Rouah: Sheila Hicks, Rabat, Morocco
Sheila Hicks, Galerie Collection d'Art, Amsterdam
1980
See Saw: Sheila Hicks, Johnson Art Gallery, Middlebury College
Free Fall: Sheila Hicks, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Small Jump, American Cultural Center, Tel Aviv
1979
Sheila Hicks: Suite Ouessantine, Musée des Beaux Arts, Brest
Miniatures, Galerie Carmen Martinez, Paris
Textiles Taillés, FIAC, Galerie Carmen Martinez, Paris
Inhabited: Sheila Hicks, The American Centre, Paris
1978
Tons and Masses, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden
Baby Time Again, Galerie Suzy Langlois, Paris
Fil, Centre des Expositions, Montreuil
Sheila Hicks, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia; Museum of Art, Skopje, Yugoslavia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia; Biblioteca Americana, Bucharest, Romania
1976
Tapisserie Mise en Liberté, Maison de la Culture, Rennes
Ancient Peruvian Textiles and the Work of Sheila Hicks, Maison de la Culture, Rennes
1975
Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland
1974
Sheila Hicks, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Sheila Hicks, Modern Masters Tapestries Gallery, New York
1973
Objets et Rituels, Frances Bouygues Headquarters, Clamart
Tapis de Prière, Palacio Iturbide, Mexico D.F
1972
The Work of Sheila Hicks, American Institute of Architects Gallery, Philadelphia
Fils Dansants, Tapis aux Murs de Sheila Hicks, Dakar; Abidjan, Ivory Coast; Galerie Dar Lasram, Tunis, Tunisia; American Center, Milan
1971
Les Tapis muraux de Sheila Hicks, Galerie Nationale de Bab Rouah, Rabat
Formes de Fil, Musée des Beaux Arts, Brest
Tapisseries et Tissages de Sheila Hicks, Mobilier International, Lyon
1970
Fête du Fil, Institut Franco-Americain de Rennes
Forme in Faden, Buchholz Gallery, Munich
Sheila Hicks – Harold Cousins, American Library, Brussels
1969
Bensen Gallery, Bridgehampton, Long Island, New York
Wall Hangings, Craft Alliance Gallery, Saint Louis
Murs et Fibres, Galerie Suzy Langlois, Paris
1968
Formes Tissées – Formes Architecturales, American Cultural Center, Paris
Sheila Hicks, Jindrichuv Castle, Czech Republic
1965
Woven Forms and Sculpture, Interiors International, London
Neve Formen der Textiles Talturig, Landes-museum, Oldenburg
1963
Exhibiting Wool, La Pina Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Textiles by Sheila Hicks, The Art Institute of Chicago
Knoll International, Nuremberg, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Cologne, Berlin, Frankfurt an Stuttgart, Germany and Basel, Switzerland
1961
Tejidos, Galeria Antonio Souza, Mexico DF
1958
Tejidos, National Museum of Natural History, Santiago de Chile
Pinturas de S.A.W. Hicks – Fotografias de Sergio Larrain, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile; Galeria Galatea, Buenos Aires
Gruppenaustellungen (Auswahl) | Group exhibitions (Selection)
2024
Katinka Bock & Sheila Hicks, Various Others, Rüdiger Schöttle & Meyer Riegger, Munich
HARD/SOFT Textiles and Ceramics in Contemporary Art, MAK, Vienna
Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Barbican Gallery, London
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2023
Making Their Mark curated by Cecilia Alemani, Shah Garg Foundation, New York
To Weave the Sky: Textile Abstractions from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, El Espacio 23 Miami
Légendes Botaniques, Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Château de Menthon Saint-Bernard, Annecy
NGV Triennial 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
No Feeling is Final: The Skopje Solidarity Collection, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Solaire Culture, a travelling exhibition curated by Camille Morineau for Veuve Clicquot, London
2022
Reverb, Zipora Fried, Arthuro Herrera, Sheila Hicks, Erin Shirreff, Sikkema Jenkins gallery, New York
The house of Dust. Collections au féminin (1960 – 2020), MAMC+, Saint Etienne
Every day, someday and other memories, Collections 1950 – 1980, The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Monochrome multiples, Smart Art Museum, Chicago
Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington
2021
Elles font l’abstraction / Women in Abstraction, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Artists and the Rothko Chapel: 50 Years of Inspiration, Moody Center of the Arts, Houston
Solaire Culture, a travelling exhibition curated by Camille Morineau for Veuve Clicquot, the Jing, Tokyo; Los Angeles
Diversity/United. Contemporary Art of Europe. Moscow. Berlin. Paris, The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
La vie des tables, Centre d'art contemporain d'Ivry – Le Crédac, Ivry
Blanc sur Blanc, Gagosian, Paris
2020
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
Nature impressionnée, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Saint-Lô, Normandie
2019
Women take the Floor, The Museum of Fine Arts of Boston, Boston
Surrounds: 11 Installations, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Weaving beyond the Bahaus, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Sheila Hicks, Line by Line, Step by Step, Demisch Danant Gallery, New York
Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950 – 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Tales of Thread, Custot Gallery Dubai
2018
PANTA RHEI, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
Sens Dessus Dessous, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Chaumont-sur-Loire
ICA Collection: Entangled in the Everyday, ICA Boston
2017
Voyage d’hiver, Château de Versailles, Versailles
Beyond Craft, Tate Modern, London
More Simply Put, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Medusa: Jewellery and Taboos, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Viva Arte Viva, curated by Christine Macel, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice
Thread Lines, KMAC Museum, Louisville
Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Flower Power, le pouvoir des fleurs, Centre d'Arts et de Nature, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire
Travaux de Dames?, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Meandering, Abstractly, galerie frank elbaz, Dallas
2016
Architecture of Color: The Legacy of Luis Barragȧn, Timothy Taylor 16x34, New York
Made in France, Demisch Danant, New York
Making & Unmaking: An exhibition curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London
Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 – 2016, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles
TALES OF RATIOCINATION, Campoli Presti, London
Drôles de trames!, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing
Glasgow International 2016, Glasgow
20th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, Hangzhou, China
Unravelled, Beirut Art Center, Beirut
2015
Now I See the Secret of Making, lora reynolds gallery, New York
Wow! Woven? Entering the (sub)Textiles, Künstlerhaus, K&M, Graz
Fiber Legends, KANEKO, Omaha, Nebraska
DLA Piper Series: Constellations, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Organic Sculpture, Alison Jacques Gallery, London
Looking Back / The 9th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York
Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury and Today, Museum of Art & Design, New York
Search Versus Re-Search: Josef Albers, Artist and Educator, The Yale School of Art, New Haven
2014
Material Gestures: Cut, Weave, Sew, Knot, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Objets: Pouvoir secrets, Passage de Retz, Paris
States of Mind, Maison Particulière, Brussels
Fiber: Sculpture 1960 – Present, curated by Jenelle Porter, ICA, Boston
Thread Lines, Drawing Center, New York
Pliage / Fold, Gagosian Gallery, Paris
L'Almanach 14, Le Consortium, Dijon
Whitney Biennial 2014, New York
Cartagena Biennial, Cartagena, Colombia
Textured Planes, Demisch Danant, New York
2013
Threaded Stories, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Shaping Modernity: Design 1880 – 1980, Part Two, Museum of Modern Art, New York
To Open Eyes: Art and Textiles from the Bauhaus to Today, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
2012
São Paulo Biennal, São Paulo
2011
Décor et Installations, Les Gobelins Beauvais, Paris
Unpainted Paintings, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York
2010
Every Thing Design, Die Sammlungen des Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich
Elles@centrepompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2009
Tapisserie Contemporaine et Art Textile en Europe, Académie des beaux-arts, Paris
2008
Recent Acquisitions, 2003-2008, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York
2006
Material Difference: Soft Sculpture and Wall Works, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
One of a Kind: The Studio Craft Movement, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2003
Revolution in the Air – the Sixties and the Stedelijk, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Recent Acquisitions, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis
2002
Jouer la lumière, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris
Crafting a Legacy: Contemporary American Crafts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
2000
Mutations/Mode 1960-2000, Musée Galliera, Paris
A Century of Design, part 3: 1950 – 1975, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
300 Year Anniversary Show, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
1998
Structure and Surface: Contemporary Japanese Textile, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1997
The Amazing World of Fiber Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, USA Maedup, l'art du nœud, de la mode à l'art textile, Centre Culturel Coréen, Paris
1995
Made in America: Ten Centuries of American Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnepolis
Fiber: Five Decades from the Permanent Collection, American Craft Museum, New York
1994
Donner forme à une idée, Passage de Retz, Paris
Artextile, de l'art du tissu au tissu dans l'art, Parc des Expositions, Paris
Textila Magiker: Sheila Hicks – Junichi Arai, Textil Museet, Boras
1993
Sweden Small Works in Fiber: The Collection of Mildred Constantine, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
Un point de vue sur le design, Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal
Textielcollectie, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Focus on Fiber Art: Selections from the Growing 20th Century Collection, Art Institute of Chicago
Hicks and Okada, Axis Gallery, Tokyo
1992
Modern Design: 1880 – 1990, Twentieth Century Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1991
What Modern Was, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York
Sheila Hicks and Pierrette Bloch, Benno Premsela, Amsterdam
1989
Sacré – Profane, Château de Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau
1987
Decorative and Industrial Design: 1900-1986, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Vers à Soie, Vers la Soie, Musée Guimet d'Histoire Naturelle, Lyon
1986
Fiber R/Evolution, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee; Indianopolis Museum of Art, Indianopolis
1985
La Tapisserie en France, 1945-1985, La Tradition vivante, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris
Fibres-Art 85, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
High Styles: American Design Since 1900, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1981
Old Traditions – New Directions, Textile Museum, Washington
The Art Fabric: Mainstream, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
1979
Traces et Reliefs: Daniel Graffin et Sheila Hicks, Musée des Tapisseries, Aix-en-Provence
1977
Artiste/Artisan, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France Fiberworks, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
Les Mains regardent, Centre Pompidou, Paris
1976
Fiber Works – Europe and Japan, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
1975
Des Tapisseries nouvelles, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
1973
Sheila Hicks and Marc Held, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Nantes
1972
Douze ans d'art contemporain en France, Grand Palais, Paris
Les Tendances de la tapisserie en France, Musée d'Arras, Arras
1969
Perspectief in Textiel, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Wall Hanging, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Exposición Internacional de Experiencias Artístico-Textiles, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid
1967
La Tapisserie de la conception à la réalisation, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Lausanne
3ème Biennale internationale de la tapisserie, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Palais de Rumine, Lausanne
Recent Acquisitions: Design Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965
13th Triennale, Milan
1963
Woven Forms: Alice Adams, Sheila Hicks, Lenore Tawney, Dorian Zachai, Claire Zeisler, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York
1960
Recent Acquisitions to the Museum Collections, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Preise und Stipendien | Awards and Scholarships
2023
U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts
2023
Chevalier by the Legion d’Honneur
2022
Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, New York
2019
Honorary Doctorate from Yale University
2014
Honorary Doctorate, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris
2010
Smithsonian Archives of American Art Medal
1997
Gold Medal, American Crafts Council
1996
Officier des Arts et des Lettres, France
1985
Medal of Fine Arts, French Academy of Architecture
1975
Honorary Doctorate, Rhode Island School of Design
Gold Medal, American Institute of Architects
1954 – 1957
Fellow of the Kunst Akademie, The Hague, The Netherlands. Fullbright grant to study painting in Chile
Sammlungen | Collections
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Industriet Museum, Oslo, Norway
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zurich, Switzerland
Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway
Kunstmuseum, Oldenburg, Germany
Manufacture des Gobelins, Paris, France
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota
The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey
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
