New Work: Sheila Hicks
Forthcoming: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
9 August 2025 – Autumn 2026
Sheila Hicks, Running Rampart, 2024, 90 x 90 cm © Sheila Hicks
Hicks’s first solo exhibition at SFMOMA will feature a site-specific commission in the museum’s New Work gallery. Here, the artist draws on her longtime interest in the lighthouses that dot the island of Ouessant (Ushant) in Brittany, just off the coast of western France, where crossing beams of light on rocky outposts guide ships across the rugged coastline.
The SFMOMA installation will include a monumental bas-relief composed of twisted and wrapped threads, a selection of small-scale hand-woven works inspired by the lighthouse as a marker and pathfinder, a new series of wrapped ‘beacon panels’ in vibrant colours, and a towering central hanging fibre piece inspired by the lighthouse that will anchor the installation. In this dynamic presentation, Hicks will interlace new and old works in a luminous range of colors that bridge the past and present and span space and generations. As Hicks explains, ‘It’s about the fact that it’s showing you the way … lighting your path.’