Biography

 

Roland Hicks, b.1967 Aldershot, UK. Lives and works in London.

Educated at West Surrey College of Art and Design, Winchester School of Art and Slade School of Art (distinction).


Solo Exhibitions:

'I Just Can't Stop It' Eleven, London, 2009

'Give Me Every Little Thing',  Ffotogallery, Cardiff, 2007 See Ffotogallery webpage
'Roland Hicks', Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales, 2007
'Nothing Can Stop Us Now', Hiscox Artprojects, London, 2003 See Hiscox Artprojects webpage
'I Can't Help Myself',
The Market, London, 2002
'Roland Hicks', Alfred Camp Gallery, London, 2001
'New Paintings', 97-99 Gallery, Sclater Street, London, 1999


Selected Group Exhibitions:

One Giant Leap: Works from the Saatchi Gallery, Hyatt Regency London - The Churchill, London 2012

Eleven Christmas Salon, Eleven, London, Dec 2011/Jan 2012

Volta7, Basel, with Rick Giles, June 2011

Intimate Spaces, Jemma Appleby, Adam Dant, Aaron Distler, Jessa Fairbrother, Juan Fontanive, Louis de Gama, Howard Gardener, Roland Hicks, Oliver Jones, Adam KIng, Dean Kissick, Debbie Lawson, Tim Rogers, Rebecca Stevenson and Andy Warhol    Galerie8, London, 2011 see galerie8 website

Eleven Xmas Salon, Eleven, London, 2010/11

The This And The That, Justin Allen and Roland Hicks, Eleven, London June 2010

John Moores 25, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2008/9  visit Walker Art Gallery webpage
Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany 2005

Everyday Is Like Sunday,  with Rosie Snell, Karl Maughan and Ross Hansen, Vertigo, London, 2005
Weeds, including Keith Coventry, Stephen Cornell, Phillipa Horan, Emma Todd - Hiscox Artprojects, London, 2004
BlowUp - New Painting and Photoreality, including Jason Brooks, Glenn Brown, Neil Gall, Dan Hays, Masakatsu Kondo, John Salt and Paul Winstanley, St Pauls Gallery, Birmingham, 2004
Painting Practices - Roland Hicks & Luke Caulfield, curated by Neal Rock, Seven Seven Contemporary Art, London, 2003
*1:us, Tony Bevan, Christopher Bucklow, Michael Craig-Martin, Richard Billingham, Garry Fabian-Miller, Angus Fairhurst, Roland Hicks, Langlands & Bell, Jose Maria Sicilia, Mark Wallinger - Hiscox Artprojects, London, 2003
The Market, London, 2001
Losing The Plot, VANE 2000, Newcastle,  2000
Mighty Real, Dazed and Confused Gallery, London, 2000
NatWest Art Prize, Lothbury Gallery, London, 1999
Viva Chihuahua!, with Cathie Pilkington & Brendan Reid, The Tannery, London, 1998
Slade Postgraduate Painting Show, London, 1996


Collections:

Land Securities
The Groucho Club

Saatchi Gallery
Hiscox   See Webpage
The Fleming Collection
Oxford University Art Collection
Unilever Art Collection

Various private collections in Europe and the US



Awards:

Collaboration with Vogue Magazine, Paris, 2001
NatWest Art Prize Runner-up, 1999
Fine Art Research Fellowship (Painting - Cheltenham College of Art), 1997-8