SHEILA HICKS: IN THE THREAD OF LOVE
PAC, MILAN, ITALY: OPENING 17 NOVEMBER 2026
17 November 2026 – 14 February 2027
Sheila Hicks, Phaos (detail), 2025, linen, cotton, wool, polyester, synthetic fibre, 100 x 100 cm (39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in). © Sheila Hicks. Courtesy of Alison Jacques.
Alison Jacques is delighted to announce In the thread of love, the first Italian retrospective dedicated to Sheila Hicks, opening at the Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, on 17 November 2026.
Curated by Diego Sileo, the exhibition features more than 100 works from collections including MoMA, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, and the National Museum in Oslo.
For Hicks, the materials she uses embody a unique language that gives form to narratives of marginalisation, identity, syncretism, and feminism. In her works, natural and synthetic fibres, colours, weavings, knots and textures become tools through which forms are created, space is occupied, and visual experiences are activated.
The works on view at PAC traces more than six decades of Hicks’s artistic practice, from the experiments she began in the 1960s between Latin America and Morocco, to her more recent monumental installations.