David Hicks USA, 1977

David Hicks (USA, b. 1977) is an artist and educator who lives and works in his hometown of Visalia, in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California. He has had solo exhibitions of ceramics at Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles; Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami; and Edward Cella Art &Architecture, West Hollywood, CA. His work was included in The Vessel Revisited: Fundamental Forms in Contemporary Ceramics, Torggler Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Virginia (2025); Wayfinding, Craft Contemporary’s Third Clay Biennial, and Think Pinker, Curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, GAVLAK, both in Los Angeles (2023); and More Clay: The Power of Repetition, Curated by Rebecca Cross, at the American University Museum, Washington, D.C. (2022). 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 held in the collections of the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA), Pomona, CA; Arizona State Museum (ASM), Tempe, AZ; Boise Art Museum, ID; and the U.S. Department of State, Art in Embassies (AIE) collection, Washington, D.C., among others.