Jacob Hicks is a Brooklyn-based oil painter, educator with the Children’s Museum of the Arts, & critical writer. He founded Quantumartreview in 2014. He exhibits with Gallery Henoch in Chelsea.
EDUCATION
2012 MFA New York Academy of Art
2010 BFA Southern Methodist University
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2021
Cure/Rated: Bigotry, A Societal Cancer, HOFA Gallery, London, ENG
Winter Exhibition, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing, Thinkspace, Los Angeles, CA
2020
Common Ground, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
2019
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, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, WI
Art New York, Pier 94, New York, NY
Grand Opening, Blackbird Gallery, New York, 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
NYAA Summer Exhibition, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY
Dream, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Escape Velocity, The Plaxall Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Multiplicity, Dacia Gallery, New York, NY
2015
Twice Born, Steele Gallery, Gage Academy, Seattle, WA
NYAA Summer Exhibition, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Behind the Curtain, Mark Miller Gallery, New York, NY
The Wild’s Bestiary Benefit Auction, Garis & Hahn Gallery, New York, 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
Mythical Beasts, One Mile Gallery, Kingston, NY
Lacunae, Halle 14, Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany
Single Fare, Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York, NY
2012
Fr**k Off, RH Gallery, New York, NY
Interfaith Biennial, Dominican University, River Forest, IL
Holy Lives, St. Elizabeth College, Morristown, NJ
MFA Thesis Exhibit, Wilkinson Hall, New York, NY
2011
Webster Hall Quarterly, Webster Hall, New York, NY
Single Fair 2, Sloan Gallery, New York, NY
2010
BFA Qualifying Exhibit, The Pollock Gallery, Dallas, TX
CURATION
Wonderland, Wrong Side of the River, Brooklyn, NY
Phosphorus, Rare Bird Art Space, Brooklyn, NY, 2018
Anthropoceneans, New Hope Arts, New Hope, PA, 2016
Alchemy and Metaphysics, Trestle Project Space, Brooklyn, NY, 2014
Mythology and Folklore, Big Irv’s Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2013
Not For Sale, The Lounge Underground, Brooklyn, NY, 2013
Things That go Bump in the Night, Kraine Gallery, New York, NY, 2012
PUBLICATIONS
2021
CURE/RATED: Bigotry, A Societal Cancer, Artforum
2020
“To identify and learn from the clarity and truthfulness that [children] reflect requires patience and devotion” — 5 Minutes with Teaching Artist Jacob Hicks, Children’s Museum of the Arts
Jacob Hicks, Por Amor al Arte
2019
Jacob Hicks: Painting Against the Dark Arts, Frontrunner
All About Teaching Artist Jacob Hicks!, Children’s Museum of the Arts
Welcome Artists!, Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts
Wrong Side of The River Opens in Greenpoint with ‘WONDERLAND’, Greenpointers
Hyper-realistic artist Jacob Hicks – Art Miami 2019, Decorating Diva
Brooke Shields & Helena Christensen at Art New York, Medium
2018
Here It Is, the 2018 Real Simple Home: See 50+ Inspiring Ideas You Can Steal for Your Place, Real Simple
2017
Interview with Artist Jacob Hicks, ArteFuse
Natural Selection Comes Together, Art Nerd
2015
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 & Irving Sandler, edited by Margaret McCann, published by Rizzoli, 2014
Poets and Artists Magazine Issue # 56, Edited by Daniel Maidman, GOSS183 Publishing Group, Bloomington, Illinois
2013
West Nottingham Academy Welcomes First Artist in Residence, The Cecil Daily
