Jacob Hicks is a Brooklyn-based painter, educator with the Children’s Museum of the Arts, and critical writer/founder of Quantumartreview. He exhibits with Gallery Henoch and Blackbird Gallery in Chelsea.
EDUCATION
2012 MFA Cum Laude, The New York Academy of Art
2010 B.F.A. Southern Methodist University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Jacob Hicks, Kamiposi Gallery, Midland, TX
2013 Disposition, Gates Gallery, Calora, MD
2012 Jacob Hicks, The Cupping Room, New York, NY
2010 Deposition, The Doolin Gallery, Dallas, TX
2009 Simultaneity and Time, The Doolin Gallery, Dallas, TX
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Common Ground, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
2019
Wrapped Up in Winter, Blackbird Gallery, New York, NY
Art Miami, One Miami Herald Plaza, Miami, FL
Take Home a Nude, Sotheby’s, New York, NY
Summer Exhibition, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
International Biennial Portrait Competition 2019, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, WI
Out Here, Blackbird Gallery, New York, NY
Art New York, Pier 94, New York, NY
Grand Opening, Blackbird Gallery, New York, NY
Wonderland, Wrong Side of the River, Brooklyn, NY
While Supplies Last, Mount Analogue Seattle, WA
Square Pegs, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
2018
Art Miami, One Miami Herald Plaza, Miami, FL
The last Smile, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
Take Home a Nude, Sotheby’s, New York, NY
Summer Juried Show, Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY
Phosphorus, Rare Bird Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
New York Academy of Art Twelfth Annual Summer Exhibition, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY
Dream, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Escape Velocity, The Plaxall Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Head, The Factory, Brooklyn, NY
2017
Natural Selection, Galerie Protege, New York, NY
2016
Multiplicity, Dacia Gallery, New York, NY
2015
Anthropoceneans, New Hope Arts, New Hope, PA
Twice Born, Steele Gallery, Gage Academy, Seattle, WA
Summer Exhibition, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY
Fables, The Record Company, Boston, MA
2014
Behind the Curtain, Mark Miller Gallery, New York, NY
The Wild’s Bestiary Benefit Auction, Garis & Hahn Gallery, New York, NY
Alchemy and Metaphysics, Trestle Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
Superficies 2, Big Irv’s Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Superficies 1, Prova 4 Bolit Centre d’Art Contemporani, Girona, Spain
Winter Salon Pop Up, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
One Billion Rising, Polk State College, Winter Haven, FL
Kamakura/NYC Synergy, Kamakura Arts Center, Kamakura, Japan
2013
Mythology and Folklore, Big Irv’s Gallery Brooklyn, NY
Deck the Walls, Wilkinson Hall, New York, NY
Not For Sale, The Lounge Underground, Brooklyn, NY
Mythical Beasts, One Mile Gallery, Kingston, NY
Lacunae, Halle 14, Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany
Spring Fling, The Lounge Underground, Brooklyn, NY
I Set My Foot Upon The Air, The Museum, Leipzig, Germany
Single Fare, Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York, NY
2012
Alumni Show, Wilkinson Hall, New York, NY
Fr**k Off, RH Gallery, New York, NY
Interfaith Biennial, Dominican University, River Forest, IL
Holy Lives, St. Elizabeth College, Morristown, NJ
Small Works Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
MFA Thesis Exhibit, NYAA, New York, NY
Over Hang, The Cupping Room, New York, NY
Tribeca Ball, NYAA, New York, NY
2011
Webster Hall Quarterly, Webster Hall, New York, NY
Ridiculist Revival Auction, Jackson Hall, New York NY
Tribeca Ball, NYAA, New York, NY
Single Fair 2, Sloan Gallery, New York, NY
2010
B.F.A Qualifying Exhibit, The Pollock Gallery, Dallas, TX
2009
Taos Group Exhibit, Fort Burgwin Gallery, Taos, NM
CURATION
2018
Phosphorus, Rare Bird Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Anthropoceneans, New Hope Arts, New Hope, PA
2014
Alchemy and Metaphysics, Trestle Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Mythology and Folklore, Big Irv’s Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Not For Sale, The Lounge Underground, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Things That go Bump in the Night, Kraine Gallery, New York, NY
PUBLICATIONS
2019
”Jacob Hicks: Painting Against the Dark Arts,” Corazon Miller
2017
Interview with Artist Jacob Hicks, ArteFuse
Natural Selection Comes Together at Galerie Protege, Art Nerd
Tapping into Personal and Collective Subconsciousness with Jacob Hicks, Art Maze Mag
2015
Jacob Hicks’s Otherworldly Paintings, Or Does It Explode
Fresh Paint Magazine Studio Visit
Art Abounds This Weekend in Three New Shows, The Midland Reporter Telegram
Fresh Paint Magazine, Issue 8, July 2015, curated by Michael Kalmbach, edited by Amanda Shredwer, published by Ekatrina Popova
2014
BESTIARY, text by Bianca Ozeri, edited by Joseph Levinson, published by Los Salvajes Media Group, 2014
The Figure: Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture, by Donald Kuspit and Irving Sandler, edited by Margaret McCann, published by Rizzoli, 2014
Art Talks with Jacob Hicks, The Wild Magazine
Poets and Artists Magazine Issue # 56, Edited by Daniel Maidman, GOSS183 Publishing Group, Bloomington, Illinois, 2014
One-Sided Story Artist Residency 2012-2013, Edited by Candace Goodrich, published by OSS/Leipzig, 2014
2013
West Nottingham Academy Welcomes First Artist in Residence, The Cecil Daily
2012
