About the Artist
Candace Hicks collects coincidences from the books she reads and gathers them in her artists’ books and installations. Her compendiums of coincidence are records that show the world through a particular, specific, and sometimes obsessive, point of view. Books from her Common Threads series are in more than 90 collections around the world, including: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Art Houston, Boston Athenaeum, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Grolier Club, Harvard, Hungarian Multicultural Center, MIT, MoMA, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, UCLA Biomedical Library, Stanford, and Yale. She is an associate professor at Stephen F. Austin State University where she teaches foundations. In 2025, she completed a Fulbright U.S. Scholar project in France and in 2027 she will represent the state of Texas at the National Women’s Museum in an exhibition devoted to expanded artist’s books.