Sheila Hicks

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Sheila Hicks 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 2014 Whitney Biennial in New York, the 2012 São Paulo Biennial in Brazil. Recent solo presentations include 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, Philadelphia and the Mint Museum, 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; Israel Museum, Jerusalem. COLLECTIONS The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The Cleveland Museum, Ohio The Art Institute of Chicago The Smart Museum, Chicago The Philadelphia Museum of Art The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota The Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile The Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, Czechoslovakia Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris The Museums of Modern Art, Tokyo and Kyoto Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam AWARDS Honorary Doctorate, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, 2014 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

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