Education:
Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas
Solo Exhibitions:
2008 The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2008 Tracy Hicks: global warming installation, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2002 Third Ward Archive, Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas
2001 SSAR (Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles), Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana
2000 Glass Towers, SITE/WORK/S, Chenevert Green, Houston, Texas
2000 Salvage Biology, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1999 Correlation and Connection, CRCA The Gallery at UTA, Arlington, Texas
1998 Storeroom, Museum of East Texas, Lufkin, Texas
1997 Change/Exchange, Hickory Street Annex, Dallas, Texas
1997 Freedmens Field, African American Museum, Dallas, Texa
1996 Third Ward Archive, Project RowHouses, Houston, Texas
1994 Encounters 5: Tracy Hicks - Damien Hirst, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
1994 Substance and Spirit, Lanning Gallery, Houston, Texas
1993 Marking Time - Storehouse , (an evolving exhibition), Hickory Street Annex, Dallas, Texas
1992 Patience and Change, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1992 Patience and Time, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas
1992 Light and Rite, Brookhaven College, Dallas, Texas
1991 Shelf-life, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1989 Historical/Hysterical, Hughes-Trigg Gallery, SMU, Dallas, Texas
1986 Traveling Trophy Show, Modern Dallas Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 MAC@20 Part II, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2013 Suitable Subjects: Contemporary Still Lifes, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
2009 Flash: Photography from Dallas Galleries, CADD Art Lab, Dallas Texas
2009 Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord between Nature and Society, Tuscon Museum of Art, Tucon, Arizona
2009 Drawing In, CADD Art Lab, Dallas, Texas
2009 Thank You Fort Worth: An Appreciation from Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas
2008 CADD Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas Art Fair, Three Three Three First Avenue, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2008 College Art Association’s 96th Annual Conference, Adam’s Mark Hotel, Dallas, Texas
2006 Kingdom Animalia: Creatures Big and Small by Artists Old and New, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2002 Modalities of the Visible, A survey of Contemporary Art in North Texas, Brookhaven Center for the Arts
2002 Female body, Work of Four Women, Curated by a Man
2001 Creative itch, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, Texas
2001 Inside & Out, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2000 Study…Preserving a Body, “The Perfect Figure”, Artscan, Houston, Texas
1999 The Aquarium Show Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas
1999 Bio - Between Image and Object (curator/artist), Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas
1998 SMU Art Faculty Exhibtion, Meadows Museum, Dallas, Texas
1998 Self Portraits Close-up and Personal, Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1998 Dallas Area Art – Small Works Exhibition, Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston, Texas
1998 Do it, Boise State University Art Gallery, Boise, Idaho
1997 Horace Cardwell Collection, Museum of East Texas, Lufkin, Texas
1996 Animal Farm, Houston, Texas
1996 SMU Faculty Exhibition, Meadows Museum, Dallas, Texas
1995 Preservation Dallas, State Thomas Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1995 Collected, The Pollack Gallery at SMU, Dallas, Texas, Curated by Philip Van Kuren
1994 Small Objects, Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas
1994 Brave New World, Lanning Gallery, Houston, Texas
1994 Born Again, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas
1993 Ready Made, City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1993 Self Contained, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas
1992 Small Works and Installations, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1991 The State I'm In, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, Curated by Annegreth Nill
1991 Art in the Metroplex, TCU, Fort Worth, Texas, Curated by Marilyn Zietlan
1991 Excellence in Photography, Assemblage, Rossi Gallery, Dallas
1991 Sculpture Invitational, Brookhaven College, Dallas, Texas
1990 Critics Choice, D-Art, Dallas, Texas, Jurors: Jeff Kelley, Susan Barnes, and Rick Bretell
1990 Lost and Found, Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1990 One Splendora Evening, Lawndale Benefit, Splendora, Texas
1990 Looking the Other Way, Two-person exhibition with A.M. Hudson, Design Center, Dallas, Texas
1990 Four Person Show, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1989 Group Show, Marvin Seline Gallery, Houston, Texas
1989 Day of the Dead, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
1989 Art in the Metroplex, TCU, Fort Worth, Texas, Juror: David Ross
1989 Suitcase Curio Show, Co-curator with Mary Iron Eyes, Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
1989 Excellence 89, Texas Sculpture Association, Dallas, Texas
1989 Mixed Media, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas
1988 Kennedy Memorial, Texas Theater, Dallas, Texas
1988 Self Portrait, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1988 Three Person, Gallery Gorpal, Dallas, Texas
1988 The Closing Show, DW Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1988 Zoo Show, Dallas, Texas
1988 Critic's Choice, D-Art, Dallas, Texas
1988 Cityfaire, Dallas, Texas
1988 Group Show, Abilene Museum of Art, Abilene, Texas
1988 Ancestral Glyph, D-Art, Dallas, Texas
1987 Critic's Choice, D-Art, Dallas, Texas
1987 Invitational Clay Exhibition, Frito-Lay Didactic Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1987 Deep Ellum Artist's Series, Allen Street Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1987 Heart Show, William Campbell Fine Art, Fort Worth, Texas
1986 Mask Show, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1986 Critic's Choice, D-Art, Dallas, Texas
1985 No Goats for Sale, Dallas, Texas
1985 Plate Show, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1985 Texas Sculpture Symposium, Dallas, Texas
Awards, Grants and Honors:
1999 Horace Cardwell Competition, Museum of East Texas, Lufkin, Texas
1994 Dozier Travel Grant, Dallas Museum of Art
1992 NFRIG (New Forms Regional Initiative Grant), Funded through the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Warhol Foundation
1991 Art in the Metroplex, Vance Award
1991 Awards to Excellence in Photography, The Assemblage
Selected Literature:
Terranova, Charissa N. “Art Review | Global Warning: Still/Life: Preserved precariously: Enlightenment comes with endangered-frogs installation.” The Dallas Morning News, GuideLive, June 12, 2008, pages 1E, 4E, reproductions.
Armitage, Diane. “Tracy Hicks and Sherry Karver.” THE Magazine, November, 2000.
Mitchell, Charles Dee. "Connecting Images and Objects." The Dallas Morning News, October 19, 1999
Aktar, Suzanne. “Flora and Fauna Specimens Inspire Ecosystem Statements” Fort Worth Star Telegram, April 11, 1999.
Van Kuren, Philip. “Naming of the World.” CRCA Correlation Collection, 1999.
Daniel, Mike. “Preview: Tracy Hicks at Hickory Street Annex.” The Dallas Morning News, Guide, March 28, 1997
Weiss Jeffrey. “Of a People & Possibilities.” The Dallas Morning News, November 30, 1996.
Glentzer, Molly. “Art With A Heart.” Hope Magazine, October 1996.
Nill, Annegreth. “Re-collections.” Encounters 5, Dallas Museum of Art, July 1994.
Kutner, Janet. “Artist Imagination.” The Dallas Morning News, May 1, 1994.
Kutner, Janet. “Tracy Hicks Finds Beauty in Simple Things.” The Dallas Morning News, December 24, 1993.
Bass, Shermakae. “Marking Time.” The Dallas Morning News, November 14, 1993.
Armitage, Diane. “Tracy Hicks at CCA.” THE Magazine, January/February, 1993.
Versace, Candelora. “The Spirit of Sentimentalism.” Sante Fe New Mexican, November 20, 1992.
Kalil, Susie. “Retro Radical.” Houston Press, October 8, 1992.
Chadwick, Susan. “Bottled Up.” Houston Post, September 25, 1992.
Teaching, Lectures, and Talks:
2009 Art Social, with David H. Gibson, CADD Art Lab, Dallas, Texas
2001 Summer Art Camp
2001 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
1999 Correlation Collection, Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art
1997-1999 Adjunct Professor of Art, Southern Methodist University
1994-1995 Adjunct Professor of Art, Southern Methodist University
1992-1999 Artist in Residence, Southern Methodist University
1995 Meet the Artist, Dallas Museum of Art,
1995 Artist Talks - Robert Rauchenberg, Forth Worth Museum of Modern Art,
1995 Imagination Celebration - High School Serial Visit, Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art
