David Hicks is an artist and educator who lives and works in his hometown of Visalia, California. Hicks has received solo exhibitions with Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles; Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami; and Edward Cella Art & Architecture, West Hollywood, CA. This year, Hicks’ ceramic sculptures were on view in The Vessel Revisited: Fundamental Forms in Contemporary Ceramics, at The Torggler Fine Arts Center in Virginia. In 2023, his ceramics were included in Wayfinding, Craft Contemporary’s Third Clay Biennial (2023) and Think Pinker, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, at GAVLAK, both in Los Angeles. A major installation of his Poly Panel Triptych in More Clay: The Power of Repetition, curated by Rebecca Cross, was at the American University Museum, Washington, D.C. in 2022.
David Hicks received a BFA in Ceramic Arts from California State University Long Beach (2003) and an MFA in Ceramics from Alfred University, New York (2006). His work is in the collections of the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA), Pomona, CA; Arizona State University Museum, Tempe; Boise Museum of Art, Idaho; and the U.S. Department of State’s Art in Embassies Collection in Washington, DC, among others.