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Education
 
MFA                         2009 (Printmaking) Texas Christian University
                                                                                                                                               
BA                            2001 Austin College
                                                                                                                             
Professional Experience

2012-Present          Associate Professor, Stephen F. Austin State University
 
Solo Exhibitions

2023

Understanding Coincidence in the Multiverse, Ivester Contemporary, Austin, TX 
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2022

Notes for String Theory, College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX
 
2020 
 
Secret Passage, Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, TX

2019 

The Case of the Endless Yarn, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Paper Cuts, RO2 Gallery, Dallas, TX

2018

Many Mini Murder Scenes, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX
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2017
 
Egress, Pump Project, Austin, TX
 
2016
 
The Locked Room, Living Arts, Tulsa, OK
 
The Perpetual Motion Machine, Fort Worth Community Art Center, Fort Worth, TX
 
Napoleon’s Wallpaper, Louise Hopkin's Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX
 
Rooms by the Sea, Proxy Gallery, Culver City, CA, curator Annetta Kapon
                                                                                                                             
Read Me, Tarrant County College, Arlington, TX
 
Napoleon’s Wallpaper, Delta State University, Cleveland, MS
 
2015                       
 
Read Me, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
 
Napoleon’s Wallpaper, Box 13 Gallery, Houston, TX
                                   
Candace Hicks, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO
 
2014                       
 
Super String Theory, Post-Studio Projects, Houston, TX
 
2013                       
 
Fabrications, Featured Artist Project, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
 
String Theory, 500X, Dallas, TX
 
2012                       
 
Compositions, Lawndale Art Center, Project Space, Houston, TX
 
2010
 
The Impossibility of Doing Nothing, The Reading Room, Dallas, Texas
 
The Impossibility of Doing Nothing, North Central College, Naperville, Illinois
 
2009
 
Common Threads, North Harris College, Houston, Texas
 
Candace Hicks: Recent Works, Tarrant County College Southeast Library Exhibition, Janet Key Reference Library, Arlington, Texas
 
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Moudy Gallery, Texas Christian University
 
2007
 
Candace Hicks, Maria Elena Kravetz Gallery, Cordoba, Argentina
 
Group Exhibitions

2021

Uncommon Threads, RO2 Gallery, Dallas, TX

2020
 
Group Exhibition 2020, RO2 Gallery, Dallas, TX
 
Going Through a Phrase, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX
 
2019
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Paperless, Swathmore College, Swathmore, PA
 
BookWorks, Tufts University Art Galleries, Boston, MA 
 
Text!, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
 
Chaos 7, RO2, Dallas, TX
 
Red Dot Art Spree, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX
 
Narrative Threads, Durango Arts Center, Durango, CO
 
Inland Beachball, Northern Southern Gallery, Austin, TX
 
All Stitched Up, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
 
Place Making: SFASU Faculty Exhibition, Fort Worth Community Art Center, Fort Worth, TX
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Library Artists’ Book Award Exhibition, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Manly, Australia
 
Hot Loops, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA, curator Sara Perone
 
Freed Formats: The Book Reconsidered, (traveling exhibition), Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Mark Twain Library
 
Selections from the TCU Special Collections Library, Mary Counts Burnett Library Reading Room, Fort Worth, TX
 
Open Sesame! The Magic of Artist's Books Revealed, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA

2018

The Book as Art: Flight Edition, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, GA
 
UNT Libraries’ Biennial Artist Book Competition, Willis Library, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
 
Boundless: an exhibition of experimental artist-made books, Central Features Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, New Mexico
 
2016  
 
Homecoming Alumni Exhibition, Forster Art Complex, Austin College, Sherman, TX
 
Home Base: TCU Alumni Exhibition 2016, Carol Benson, John Frost & Candace Hicks, Moody Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
 
Beyond Bindings: The Book as Art, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX
 
Invitation, Northern-Southern, Austin, TX                     
 
I AM AN IMPORTANT GIANT, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans
 
Ink and Paper: A Collaborative Exhibition of Book Arts and Letterpress Prints, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY
 
Household, Clyde H. Wells Fine Art Center Gallery, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX
 
Little Boxes, Georgetown Art Center, curator Nick Ramos
 
2015  
                     
A Thousand Invisible Threads | Mapping the Rhizome, The Herndon Gallery, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, curators Jennifer Wenker and Michael Casselli
 
/mit ðə detə/: Source Materials Visualized, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
 
Transmissions, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
 
Every Day is Ordinary, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
 
What Ought To Be: Envisioning the Impossible, Box 13, Houston, Texas, curator Kim Cook
 
Personal Histories, Redland Museum, Queensland, Australia
 
Approximate Exactitude: The Diagram and the Book, A Southern Graphics Conference International 2015 Conference Exhibition, Emporium Art Center, Knoxville, Tennessee, curator Sarah M. Smith
 
Error: 7th International Triennial Vilnius 2015, Vilnius, Lithuania
 
2014                       
 
Diamond Leaves: Printing in Progress, The Museum of Print History, Houston, TX
 
Gallery Director Invitational, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO
 
Silence Unbound: The Artist’ Lexicon in the Making, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, curator Heather Powell
 
2013                       
 
Under the Wings of Artemis: Scholars, Artists and the Places Between, Special Collections at the University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, WA
 
Common Threads, Austin College Alumni Exhibition, Sherman, TX
                                   
Narrative Threads, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO
 
Press and Release 2013, Phoenix Brighton Gallery, East Sussex, United Kingdom
 
Stitchings, Fort Worth Community Art Center, curator Elaine Taylor
 
To Preserve and Protect, Booklyn, Brooklyn, New York
 
2012                       
 
Multiple, Limited, Unique: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Center for Book Arts, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania
 
Tell Me How You Really Feel: Graphic Novels, Journals, and Travelogues, Center for Book Arts, New York, jurors Alexander Campos and Rory Golden (traveled to Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA)
 
Diamond Leaves, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China, curators Marshall Weber and Xu Bing
                                   
Bound by Silence, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, New York, curator Heather Powell
 
2011
 
Multiple, Limited, Unique: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Center for Book Arts, Center for Book Arts, New York
 
2010               
 
Insights, Faculty Exhibition, TCU
 
2009
 
Fils Comuns, Centre Civic Pati Llimona, Barcelona, Spain
 
Juried Exhibitions

2019

​The Book as Art v. 7.0 Wonders, Decatur Arts Alliance, Decatur, GA
 
Sheets: A National Exhibition of Paper Arts, d’Art Center, Norfolk, VA, juried by Clay McGlamory, winner 3rd place

Pushing Paper, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN, juried by Kyle Herrington, Director of Exhibitions and Events at the Indianapolis Art Center
 
2018
 
Fifth Annual Artspace111 Regional Juried Exhibition, Fort Worth, TX, curator Christina Rees, editor of Glasstire
 
2015                       
 
WoCA's 3rd Annual Juried Artists' Book Exhibition, Fort Worth Community Art Center
 
Context, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, Missouri, juror Buzz Spector
 
International Art of the Book, Rochester Public Library, winner Best of Show
 
Seven States Biennial, The Nesbitt Gallery, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, juror James Surls (traveled to Charles B. Goddard Center, Ardmore, OK and Red River Museum, Idabel, OK)
 
Book as Art: No Jacket Required, Decatur Art Alliance, Decatur, Georgia, jurors Margot Ecke, Arlyn Ende, Jeff Rathermel
 
5th Sheffield International Artist’s Book Prize Exhibition, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, UK
 
MCBA Prize Exhibition, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, winner Juror’s Recognition of Merit
 
PrintTX 2015, Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, Texas
 
Fantastic Fibers, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, Kentucky, winner 2nd place
 
2015 Manly Library Artist’s Book Award Exhibition, Manly Library, Manly, Australia
 
Bookends: Juried Book Arts Exhibition, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS, juror Benjamin D. Rinehart
 
Idaho Booker’s Dozen: Traveling Exhibition, Idaho Center for the Book, Boise, Idaho
 
Beyond Words: Contemporary Book Art 2015, Foothills Art Center, Golden, Colorado, juror Alicia Bailey
 
2014               
 
2nd Annual Artists’ Books Exhibition, WoCA Projects, Fort Worth, Texas
 
Outside the Margin: Book Arts Exhibition, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, juror Doug Litts
 
Art of the Book, Rochester Public Library, Rochester, New York
 
3rd European International Book Art Biennale, Russian State Youth Library, Moscow, Russia
 
BookOpolis, Asheville BookWorks, Asheville, North Carolina
 
Fiber Fever, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, Missouri
 
Book as Art: Expanding the Limits, Decatur Art Alliance, Decatur, Georgia, jurors Alexander Campos, Mary Murphy, Barbara Tetenbaum, winner Honorable Mention
 
Library Thoughts 4, The Hegyvidek Gallery & The Hungarian Multicultural Center, Budapest, Hungary
 
Artists’ Book Cornucopia V, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, Colorado, winner Gallery Director’s Exhibition Award
 
29th Annual International Exhibition, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, juror Dean Daderko
 
Paper in Particular 2014, Columbia College, Columbia, Missouri, juror Craig Barber
 
2013                       
 
Book as Art: 21st Century Meets Tradition, The Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur, Decatur, Georgia
 
Los Angeles Printmaking Society 21st National Exhibition, Art Galleries of California State University Northridge, Northridge, California, juror Jack Rutberg
 
PrintTX 2013, The Museum of Printing History, Houston, Texas, juror Peter Briggs
 
2012               
 
A League of Book Works, Student Art League of Denver, Denver Colorado, juror Alicia Bailey, owner Abecedarian Gallery
 
Handmade and Bound Nashville: Familiar Relics, Watkins College of Art, Design & Film, juror Tony White, winner 3rd place
 
Third Coast National 2012, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, Texas, juror Christina Rees, winner 3rd Place
 
Nexus in Texas 2012, Live Oak Center, Columbus, Texas, jurors Jean Gumpper and Margie Simpson
 
2011
 
Art of the Book, Rochester Public Library, Rochester, NY, winner 1st prize, Artist’s Book Category
 
The 15th Annual Juried Rio Brazos Art Exhibition, Tarleton State University, Granbury, Texas, juror Vaughn Wascovich, Associate Professor Texas A&M University, winner Juror’s Merit Award
 
Art in the Metroplex, TCU, juror, Toby Kamps, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Menil Collection in Houston
                       
Shattered, Marin MOCA, juror, San Francisco Art Critic Kenneth Baker
 
2009               
 
New Texas Talent, Craighead Green, Dallas, Texas, juror Dr. Charissa Terranova
 
Threads: Interweaving Text(u)al Meanings, Center for Book Arts, New York
 
Fw: MFA Group Show, Fort Worth Contemporary
 
Cross Talk, Moudy Gallery, Texas Christian University, juror Margrét H. Blöndal
 
Traveling Show to Nowhere, 500X, Dallas, Texas
 
Stitch Spectacular, Dimensions Gallery, Savannah, Georgia
           
2008               
 
Texas Green, Art Car Museum, Houston, Texas
 
Novel Works: Artist Altered Books, Central Texas College, Killeen, Texas
 
Translation: Art and the Written Word, Victoria College, Victoria, Texas, juror Sheryl Oring
 
Paperwork, Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey
 
Third Coast National, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, Texas, juror Josh MacPhee, author of Reproduce & Revolt
 
Advisory Panel Selects, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
 
PaperWORKS!, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, California
 
Fun and Games (and Such), Center for Book Arts Member Exhibition, New York, New York
 
Re: 2008 Exhibition, University of North Hampton, England
 
Focus Galleries: The Best of the Biennial, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
 
Content, F6 Gallery, Arlington, Texas
 
Fresh Prints, North Lake College, Irving, Texas
 
Bound/Unbound, Stone Metal Press, San Antonio, Texas
 
Cross Talk, Moudy Gallery, Texas Christian University, juror Mark Smith

2007  
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Altered Book Exhibition, Minneapolis Central Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota, juror Betty Bright, author of No Longer Innocent: Book Arts in America and former director of the Minnesota Center for Book Arts

Current, AMP Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas

Books by Artists, Helm Fine Art Center Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School, Austin, Texas

Rhythm and Blue, Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland

2006    
           
Group Show, Ghost Town Arts Collective, Sherman, Texas

4th International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius 2006, Lithuania

Every Picture Tells a Story, Northbrook Public Library, Northbrook, Illinois

Ignited: The Exhibition, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Challenging Tradition, George Washington Carver Museum, Austin, Texas

2005  
             
IV International Competition Artist’s Book 2005, Artempressa Gallery, Cordoba, Argentina

To Have and to Hold, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Safe Harbor: Books in Boxes, Bay View Book Arts Gallery, Milwaukee Wisconsin

The Elements: Earth, Fire, Air, Water, an Exhibition of Artist Books, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey
 
Public Collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Yale University, Beineke Library
Deutsche National Bibliothek, Book and Print Museum, Leipzig, Germany
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas
Swarthmore College
University of Virginia
Stanford University Libraries
Virginia Commonwealth University
University of Miami
Harvard University Art Library
University of Vermont
Oberlin College
Temple University
St. Lawrence University
Dartmouth College, Rauner Library
University of California at Irvine
University of Connecticut, University Libraries
Brown University, Hay Library, American Poetry Collection
New York University, Fales Collection
Mary Counts Library, Texas Christian University
Austin College, Art Department Collection
Chapman University
Bucknell University
Colorado College Tutt Library Special Collections
Savannah College of Art and Design
College of Saint Benedict; St. John’s University
University of Wisconsin (Madison), Special Collections
Hampshire College
University of Colorado at Boulder
Hungarian Multicultural Center
Multnomah County Public Library
University of Delaware Library
Franklin and Marshall College
The Ohio State University
Cornell University
Smith College Museum of Art
Boston Athenaeum
University of Iowa
University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
University of Washington
University of California at Santa Cruz
Wesleyan University, Olin Library
Universitat fur angewandte Kunst Wien (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
Grinnell College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
​University of Pennsylvania
U​niversity of California at Los Angeles, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library (UCLA)
School of the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Boston
University of Michigan
Rhode Island School of Design
Northwestern University
University of Pittsburgh
Bainbridge Museum of Art
St. Olaf College
The Pennsylvania State University
Middlebury College

Awards and Grants 
 
2017                Stephen F. Austin Foundation Award for Research
2016                Ise New York Cultural Foundation Grant
2015                Research/Creative Activity Grant, Stephen F. Austin State University
2014                Shortlist, Artist’s Books Wanted, Edition Lidu
                        Shortlist, Artpace, San Antonio
2012                Shortlist Dave Bown Projects 5th Semiannual Competition, Curators: Karl Hecksher, Andrea Karnes, Mary Kate O’Hare
2009                Kimbrough Grant, Dallas Museum of Art

​Represented by Booklyn