Candace Hicks is a multidisciplinary artist and educator whose work explores narrative, coincidence, and the act of reading through artist’s books and immersive installations. Growing up on a ranch in Texas, storytelling and drawing played an early and formative role in the artist’s creative development.
Hicks’ background in book arts and training as a printmaker (MFA, Texas Christian University) has led her to cultivate a distinctive practice that blurs the boundaries between literature and visual art. A lifelong reader, she collects coincidences from the books she consumes—shared words, themes, and plot elements—and transforms them into conceptual art experiences. Her ongoing artist’s book series, Common Threads, investigates the synchronicity of fictional worlds and is held in over 90 collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Harvard University. One volume is permanently displayed at the New York Public Library in the Polonsky Collection of Treasures.
Hicks’ installations extend her book work into three-dimensional, participatory environments, which have been exhibited at venues such as Lawndale Art Center (Houston, TX), Art Living Arts (Tulsa, OK), Women & Their Work (Austin, TX), and Blue Star Contemporary (San Antonio, TX).
A committed educator, Hicks has taught design since 2012 and been recognized with the Stephen F. Austin Foundation Award for Research and multiple research grants.
She has also taught workshops in book arts and embroidery to international audiences, notably at the Center for Book Arts in New York, and has recently completed a Fulbright U.S. Scholar project in Amiens, France.
To learn more about Candace Hicks, visit http://www.candacehicks.com/
Candace’s residency is generously sponsored in part by Cyvia G. Wolff.
