Sheila Hicks born in 1934 in Hastings, Nebraska, USA.
Pionner in the art textil, Sheila Hicks develops during all his carreer an universel language. From a centennial gesture, the weaving, she realizes works from wool, silk, cotton, lin, which spread out its strong colors.

In 1954, Sheika Hicks followed Josef Alber’s class at Yale University. During her formation, she obtained a grant and went to Chili iun 1957 where she took pictures of the weavers. There she developed her interest for the weaving work. During all her carreer, Sheila Hicks doesn’t stop to explore all the facets of this knowledge. From Mexico to Chili, from South Africa to Marocco, via India, it is finally in Paris where Sheila Hicks sets up her workshop. Thanks to a meeting with Raoul d’Harcourt, anthropologist and specilist in peruvian fabrics, she studied precisely the art of this civilization.
Sheila Hicks pieces are at the crossroads between sculpture and decorative arts.
Heir of the Bauhaus movement, she ignores the hierarchy between minor and major arts. At the beginning of her carreer she collaborated with Knoll form whom she developped the « Inca » collection in 1965, or other firms as Artek. She also worked with Georg Jensen or Eero Saarinen for whom she created an installation for the CBS chanel headquarters in NY.
She also collaborated with Mexican architects such as Ricardo Legoretta and Luis Barragan. Through her carreer Sheila Hicks makes links between architecture, design and art. She is a close friend to the artist Roberto Matta or Enrique Zanartu (they married in 1965).?

Sheila Hicks works on all scales: from tiny to monumental aspect. Her works are as abstract weaved landscapes. There is an emotional feeling for the viewer. During an interview at the occasion of her exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2018 she said : « this is not figurative art, that represents nothing. For you, an emotion, I do not want that reminds a reference but an emotion. »
Sheila Hicks’ work.