About

Jacob Hicks is an internationally exhibited Brooklyn-based oil painter and art educator with the Queens Museum. He received the W Paul Beckwith Emerging Artist Grant, the Eric Fischl ‘66 Artist-In-Residence Teaching Grant, and the Mary Vernon Painting Prize through the Meadows School of the Arts. He has participated in residencies with the Children’s Museum of the Arts, the Saltonstall Foundation, the Spinnerei in Leipzig, Germany, and the Terra Foundation in Giverny, France. Recent group exhibitions include Cure/Rated at HOFA Gallery in London, Garden of Earthly Delights and Allegory of Vanity at the Spring/Break Art Show with Kustera Projects in NYC, and Smoke & Mirrors: Magical Thinking in Contemporary Art at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. In 2023 Hicks’ presented his first NYC solo exhibition, A Place Beyond Heaven at Bobblehaus. A retrospective publication of his art practice, Lamp of Memory: The Art of Jacob Hicks is newly published by Snap Collective