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
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
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
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
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
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
University 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