There are two exhibitions of Sheila Hicks‘ work right now.
In Paris
The Quai Branly Museum brings together the work of American-born/Paris-based artist Sheila Hicks and the scholarship of Monique Lévi-Strauss through their 60-year friendship and shared passion for textiles.
The exhibition juxtaposes 20 historical textile pieces from the museum’s collection with 30 contemporary works by Sheila Hicks. Drawing inspiration from ancient Andean weaving, Hicks reinterprets fundamental textile gestures: knotting, weaving, braiding, coiling, and tying, revealing their enduring expressive power. There is also a large installation by Hicks at the entrance to the collections.
Where: The Quai Branly Museum, 37 Quai Jacques Chirac, 75007 Paris, France
The show runs until the 8th of March, 2026.
For more information, visit the Museum’s website – https://www.quaibranly.fr/en/exhibitions-and-events/at-the-museum/exhibitions/event-details/e/le-fil-voyageur
In San Francisco
Concurrently, but slightly farther away, there is also a solo exhibition of Hicks’ work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA).
The SFMOMA presentation features the artist’s comet-like works, marked by vivid, intersecting, and layered lines, alongside an intimate selection of small-scale pieces that reveal her ongoing daily explorations of new materials and structural possibilities. At the centre stands a monumental phare (Lighthouse): a soaring installation of suspended, twisting cords that serves as the exhibition’s visual and conceptual anchor. Reimagined installations of Hicks’s signature wrapped bâtons, along with large, brightly coloured fibre mounds, demonstrate her continual reinvention of materials and forms—a forward-looking practice she describes as “walking the tightrope into the future.”
The exhibition extends beyond the gallery with a large-scale outdoor commission in the museum’s fifth-floor sculpture garden.
This show runs until Autumn 2026.
Where: SFMOMA, 151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA.
For more information, visit the museum’s website – https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/new-work-sheila-hicks/
Interview with Hicks
Note: There is a VERY inspiring interview with Sheila Hicks on the Louisiana Channel, an organisation which focuses on creating interviews with artists – https://channel.louisiana.dk/video/sheila-hickswere-crying-for-softness
Instagram links
Quai Branly Museum @quaibranly
SFMOMA @sfmoma
The artist’s Instagram @ateliersheilahicks
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