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Shenkman Lecture in Contemporary Art Archives (14-18)

University of Guelph, College of Arts and the School of Fine Art and Music present the 12th annual

Dasha Shenkman Lecture in Contemporary Art

Bricolage and Ritual In The Sculpture by Tom Sachs

 

Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 6:00pm

War Memorial Hall, University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario

Admission Free - Everyone Welcome!  
Free parking in P23/24 and P19 after 5:00 pm

TOM SACHS (b. 1966, New York) is a New York-based sculptor known for work inspired by icons of modernism and design. Using modest studio materials, he creates parallel universes incorporating semi-functional sculpture, sometimes deployed by the artist and his studio assistants for interactive projects, as in Nutsy’s (2001-3) and Space Program (2007, 2012, 2016-17).  Sachs has been described as “the Lenny Bruce of contemporary American art: uncompromisingly, wickedly funny, and whiplash smart”. His wit runneth over in all directions and in all mediums.

His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, all in New York; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Centre George Pompidou, Paris; and the Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo among others. He has had recent solo exhibitions at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2017-18), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2016-17), Noguchi Museum, New York (2016), the Brooklyn Museum, New York (2016), and the Contemporary Austin, Texas (2015). His film, A Space Program, released by Zeitgeist in 2016, offers viewers a glimpse into the artist’s studio practice, philosophy, and the narrative surrounding his 2012 project with Creative Time at the Park Avenue Armory.

Please also plan to join us for the MFA Open Studios before and after the lecture:

2:00-5:30 p.m. and 7:30-8:30 p.m.
Blackwood Hall, Firehall, Alexander Hall, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
 

The MFA students in the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph are pleased to welcome the public to their annual Open Studios, offering a rare inside look at the development of new work within the environment of an art program and a chance to chat with artists about their work in progress.

Open Studios 2018 features work by graduate candidates: Andrew Buszchak, Aidan Cowling, Sarah Davidson, Cassandra Ferguson, Daniel Griffin Hunt, Jessica Jang, Brennan Kelly, Jackson Klie, HaeAhn Kwon, Deirdre McAdams, Megan Moore, Emily Moriarty, Walter Scott, Xiao Xue.

Download 2018 MFA Open Studios Brochure

We will also showcase work by our fourth-year Specialized Studio undergraduates: Bronte Beggs, Nora Downer, Mackenzie Duncan, Shelby Edwards, Cherie Englehart, Richelle Forsey, Felicity Jones, Emily Lalonde, Rebecca Payne, Kayathry Ratnasabapathy, Theodora Smit, Leonard Walsh.

  • A free bus will leave Mercer Union (1286 Bloor Street West) in Toronto at 12:30 p.m. and leave the University of Guelph to return to Toronto at 8:30 p.m.  Reserve a seat on this bus. 
  • A free shuttle service between Open Studio buidings is available between 2:00 p.m. and 5:45 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.  Volunteers will be available to provide directions and assistance.  Volunteers will be wearing kelly green toques.

Press contact: Sandra Sabatini Ph.D., sabatini@uoguelph.ca, 519-824-4120 x53869; Jessica Jang, graduate student coordinator, jjang@uoguelph.ca; John Kissick, faculty coordinator, jkissick@uoguelph.ca, 519-824-4120 x53191.'

 


 

University of Guelph, College of Arts and the School of Fine Art and Music present the 11th annual

 

Dasha Shenkman Lecture in Contemporary Art

SHIRIN NESHAT - Artist and Filmmaker


Wednesday, March 8, 2017, 6:00pm

War Memorial Hall, University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario

Admission Free - Everyone Welcome!  
Free parking in P23/24 and P19 after 5:00 pm

Shirin Neshat is an Iranian-born artist and filmmaker.  Her lecture illustrates the development of her work from still photography to video installations to cinema and most recently to opera.  The primary focus will be on recent projects including two new video installations, "Roja" and "Sara," that will premiere in New York in spring 2017. She will also discuss her next feature length film titled "Looking for Oum Kulthoum" shot in Morocco in fall 2016, as well as her upcoming opera, "Aida," for the Salzburg Festival 2017.

Neshat’s early photographic works include the “Women of Allah” series (1993–1997), which explored the question of gender in relation to Islamic fundamentalism and militancy. Her subsequent video works departed from overtly political content or critique in favour of more poetic imagery and narratives.

In 2009, Neshat directed her first feature-length film, “Women Without Men,” which received the Silver Lion Award for Best Director in the 66th Venice International Film Festival. Her recent photographic series include “The Book of Kings” (2012), “Our House Is on Fire” (2013) and “The Home of My Eyes” (2015). Neshat has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at galleries and museums internationally, including the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Serpentine Gallery, London; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; and the Detroit Institute of Arts. A major exhibition of her work recently opened at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC. Shirin was included in the 48th Venice Biennale of Art (1999), Whitney Biennial (2000), Documenta XI (2002) and Prospect.1 New Orleans (2009).

She was awarded the Grand Prix of the Gwangju Biennial (2000), the Golden Lion Award, the First International Prize at the 48th Venice Biennale (1999), the Hiroshima Freedom Prize (2005), and the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2006). Neshat is currently working on her second feature-length film based on the life and art of the legendary Egyptian singer Oum Kulthum. Neshat is represented by Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.

The lecture is open to the public and will be followed by a question and answer period moderated by Robert Enright, University of Guelph Professor in Art Criticism.

The annual Dasha Shenkman Lecture in Contemporary Art was established in 2007 and is made possible through the support of Dasha Shenkman OBE, a Canadian art collector and philanthropist who lives in the United Kingdom.

The University of Guelph offers a two year Master of Fine Arts Degree that combines intensive studio concentration with seminars in theory and pedagogy. Exceptionally committed graduate faculty and limited student enrolment result in a community that is intensely involved in contemporary art and its discourse. A consistently excellent program of visiting artists, critics and curators extends this community.

Please also plan to join us for the MFA Open Studios before and after the lecture:

2:00-5:30 p.m. and 7:30-9:00 p.m.
Blackwood Hall, Firehall, Alexander Hall, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
 

The MFA students in the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph are pleased to welcome the public to their annual Open Studios, offering a rare inside look at the development of new work within the environment of an art program and a chance to chat with artists about their work in progress.Open Studios 2017 features work by graduate candidates: Hiba Abdallah, Amanda Boulos, Andrew Buszchak, Peter Denton, Shannon Garden-Smith, Daniel Griffin Hunt, Jessica Jang, Brennan Kelly, HaeAhn Kwon, Megan Moore, Kevin Murphy, Jean-Marc Perin, Walter Scott and Larissa Tiggelers.

View the 2017 MFA Open Studios brochure.

We will also showcase work by our fourth-year Specialized Studio undergraduates: Larissa Abrams-Ogg, Jaimie Aitken, Andrea Aleman-Pastor, Chelsea Birnie, Rebecca Casalino, Rebecca Daggett, Christine De Vuono, Maia Desjardins, Grace Esford, Stephanie Ferris, Hilary Hung, Samuel Johns, Samantha Jones, Rachel Meneguzzi, Caroline Popiel, Claudia Rick and Megan Stevenato.

  • A free bus will leave Mercer Union (1286 Bloor Street West) in Toronto at 12:30 p.m. and leave the University of Guelph to return to Toronto at 8:30 p.m. To reserve a seat on this bus – https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shenkman-bus-tickets-32063269101?aff=erelexpmlt
  • A free shuttle service between Open Studios buildings is available between 2:00 p.m. and 5:45 p.m.and 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Press contact: Sandra Sabatini Ph.D., sabatini@uoguelph.ca, 519-824-4120 x53869; Hiba Abdallah, graduate student coordinator, habdallah@uoguelph.ca; John Kissick, faculty coordinator, jkissick@uoguelph.ca, 519-824-4120 x53191.

Volunteers will be available to provide directions and assistance. For more information on both events, visit: www.uoguelph.ca/sofam/shenkman.

 


 

University of Guelph and the School of Fine Art and Music present the 10th annual

Dasha Shenkman Lecture in Contemporary Art

LOOKING THROUGH GLASS DARKLY: EXHIBITION PROJECTS and SCULPTURE by FRED WILSON

poster for fred wilson

Wednesday March 23, 2016, 6:00pm

War Memorial Hall, University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario

Admission Free - Everyone Welcome!  
Free parking in P23/24 and P19 after 5:00 pm

Fred Wilson will present a lecture highlighting his museum installations of the past 25 years. Wilson is known internationally for works which infiltrate museum structures and art historical canons through the medium of display. For the 2016 Dasha Shenkman Lecture, he will also discuss his recent sculptures in bronze and glass, which investigate the symbolism and meaning of the color black. In these works, inspired by historic design, art, and literature, Wilson creates both baroque and simple forms that speak to contemporary times.

Fred Wilson is a conceptual artist whose practice includes painting, sculpture and photography. He is known for his sculptures in glass and for his site-specific installations in collaboration with museums and cultural institutions throughout North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. He received his B.F.A. from the State University of New York, Purchase in 1976, and was awarded Honorary Doctorates from Maryland Institute College of Art, MD (2013), Skidmore College, NY (2009), and Northwestern University, IL (2007). Wilson’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions and retrospectives worldwide, including, amongst others, the critically acclaimed Mining the Museum: An Installation by Fred Wilson sponsored by the Contemporary Museum in collaboration with The Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore (1992–1993) and Fred Wilson, Objects and Installations 1979–2000 which traveled to eight different venues nationally from 2001-2004. In 2003, Wilson represented the United States at the 50th Venice Biennale with the solo exhibition, Fred Wilson: Speak of Me as I Am.  In 2008, Wilson was named to the Board of Trustees of the Whitney Museum of Art, New York as well as to the Board of Trustees of the American Academy in Rome.  His many accolades include the prestigious MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant (1999), among others. Wilson’s work can be found in numerous public collections worldwide, including The Art Institute of Chicago; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta; The Hood Museum, New Hampshire; The Tate Modern, London; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Institute of Jamaica, Kingston; The Jewish Museum, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; The Seattle Art Museum; and The Whitney Museum of American Art.

Fred Wilson lives and works in New York City, where he is represented by The Pace Gallery.

The annual Dasha Shenkman Lecture was established in 2007 and is made possible through the support of Dasha Shenkman, OBE, a Canadian art collector and philanthropist who lives in the United Kingdom.

MFA Open Studio 2016

Please also plan to join us for the MFA Open Studios before and after the lecture:

3:00-5:00 p.m. and 7:30-9:00 p.m.
Blackwood Hall, Firehall, Alexander Hall, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario

The MFA students in the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph are pleased to welcome the public to their annual Open Studios, offering a rare inside look at the development of new work within the hothouse environment of an art program and a chance to chat with artists about their work in progress.

Open Studios 2016 features work by graduate candidates:Paul MacIntyre; Peter Denton; Steven Beckly; Ambera Wellmann; Amanda Boulos; Larissa Tiggelers; Shannon Garden-Smith; Patrick Cruz; Jean-Marc Perin; Erika Dueck; John Haney; Simon M. Benedict; Kevin Murphy; Hiba Abdallah.

Click here for the 2016 MFA Open Studios Brochure.

We will also showcase work by our fourth year Specialized Studio undergraduates:Sonali Menezes; Jordan Pedersen; Merlin Hunt; Kenneth Jeffrey; Chris Withenshaw; Kelly Zantingh; Erika Farfaras; Alison Postma; Elana Shvalbe; Emma Welch; Katie Cheung; Emma Green; Andrew Mandaliti; Christina Smith; Linh Thai; Lindsay Sisson.

The University of Guelph offers a two year Master of Fine Arts Degree that combines intensive studio concentration with seminars in theory and pedagogy. Exceptionally committed graduate faculty and limited student enrolment result in a community that is intensely involved in contemporary art and its discourse. A consistently excellent program of visiting artists, critics and curators extends this community.

Alumni from Guelph's MFA program include Derek Sullivan, Kristan Horton, Katie Bethune-Leaman, Martin Golland, Melanie Authier, Zin Taylor and David Urban.

  • A free bus will leave Mercer Union (1286 Bloor Street West) in Toronto at 2:00 p.m. and leave Guelph to return to Toronto at 8:30 p.m.  Reserve a seat on this bus - http://shenkman.eventbrite.ca
  • A free shuttle service between Open Studio buildings is available between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.   Volunteers will provide directions and guided tours.

Press contact:
Sandra Sabatini, sabatini@uoguelph.ca 519-824-4120 x53869
Erika Dueck and Paul MacIntyre, Graduate Open Studios Student Coordinators, openstudiosmfa@gmail.com
John Kissick, Faculty Coordinator, jkissick@uoguelph.ca   519-824-4120 x53191

 


 

University of Guelph, College of Arts and the School of Fine Art and Music present the

Dasha Shenkman Lecture in Contemporary Art

MICHAEL SNOW

poster for michael snow event
Wednesday March 23, 2015, 6:00pm

War Memorial Hall, University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario

Admission Free - Everyone Welcome!  
Free parking in P23/24 and P19 after 5:00 pm

Since the fifties, Michael Snow has worked with objects, images and sound separately and together. In this year's Shenkman Lecture, he will explore the identities of image and sound with examples from his manifold practice which includes drawing, collage, painting, sculpture, photographic works, lithography, holographic works, installation, film, video,bookworks, LP jackets, multiples, music improvisation, music composition, records, cassettes, CDs, performances, tours, broadcasts, soundtracks and sound installations.

Michael Snow is a national cultural treasure. No other living Canadian artist has made as profound a contribution to international visual culture and Canadian artistic identity. The University of Guelph is pleased to host a rare speaking appearance by this great artist.

Snow was born in Toronto in 1928 and, notwithstanding extensive and on-going international travel, has made Toronto his primary residence for most of his life. Alongside names like Jack Bush, Marshall McLuhan and General Idea, Michael Snow has put Toronto and Canada on the map of world culture in a way that few others can claim.

Snow is a cultural polymath: his internationally recognized proficiencies include music, film, painting, sculpture and public art. Remarkably, he has made pioneering contributions in all  these fields. His work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Anthology Film Archives, New York, the Centre Georges, Paris, and the Royal Belgian Film Archives in Brussels, to name just a few. Retrospectives of his work have been held at the world’s foremost museums in Tokyo, Paris, Lyon, Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, Brussels, Geneva and Philadelphia. He has been the subject of solo and group exhibitions in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Berlin, Bonn, Boston, Brussels,Kassel, Lima, Los Angeles, Lucerne, Lyons, Minneapolis,Montreux, Munich, New York, Ottawa, Paris, Pittsburgh, Quebec City, Rotterdam, San Francisco, and Toronto.

Michael Snow is a Companion of the Order of Canada, a Chevalier d’ordre des Arts et des Lettres de France and holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Sorbonne, alongside honorary degrees from Emily Carr University, the University of Toronto, the University of Victoria, Brock University and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

Michael Snow’s output as an artist has consistently and persistently demanded that his audience be acutely aware of its perceptions. His appearance as the 9th Dasha Shenkman Lecturer will surely demand similar attention from his audience while offering an opportunity to hear a resident legend speak of his work. The lecture is open to the public and will be followed by a question and answer period moderated by Robert Enright, University of Guelph Research Chair in Art Criticism.

The annual Dasha Shenkman Lecture was established in 2007 and is made possible through the support of Dasha Shenkman, OBE, a Canadian art collector and philanthropist who lives in the United Kingdom.

For more information contact:
Sandra Sabatini Ph.D.
Dean's Office, College of Arts
University of Guelph
519.824.4120.x53869
sabatini@uoguelph.ca 

Link to youtube videoMFA Open Studio 2015

Please also plan to join us for the MFA Open Studios before and after the lecture:

3:00-5:00 p.m. and 7:30-9:00 p.m.
Blackwood Hall, Firehall, Alexander Hall, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario

The MFA students in the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph are pleased to welcome the public to their annual Open Studios, offering a rare inside look at the development of new work within the hothouse environment of an art program and a chance to chat with artists about their work in progress.

Open Studios 2015 features work by graduate candidates:Steven Beckly, Simon M. Benedict, Patrick Cruz, Brandan Doty, Erika Dueck, Paul MacIntyre, John Haney, Maegan Harbridge, MinWoo Lee, Maegan Mehler, Janine Miedzik, Jasmine Reimer, Ambera Wellmann

Click here to view the 2015 MFA Open Studios brochure.

We will also showcase work by our fourth year Specialized Studio undergraduates:

Chelsea Brant, Tory Berends, Emma Carney, Maya Ben David, Jess Eisner, Dylan Evans, Angela Ferguson, Allison Henry, Katie Holmes, Megan Keogh, Rachel Laurzon, Tessa McDougall, Melina Panara, Katie Schultz, Allannah Vokes, in addition to The University of Guelph Senior Drawing Class.

The University of Guelph offers a two year Master of Fine Arts Degree that combines intensive studio concentration with seminars in theory and pedagogy. Exceptionally committed graduate faculty and limited student enrolment result in a community that is intensely involved in contemporary art and its discourse. A consistently excellent program of visiting artists, critics and curators extends this community.

Alumni from Guelph's MFA program include Derek Sullivan, Kristan Horton, Katie Bethune-Leaman, Martin Golland, Melanie Authier, Zin Taylor and David Urban.

  • A free bus will leave Mercer Union (1286 Bloor Street West) in Toronto at 2:00 p.m. and leave Guelph to return to Toronto at 8:30 p.m.  Email openstudiosmfa@gmail.com to reserve a spot.
  • A free shuttle service between Open Studio buildings is available between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. and again between 7:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.  Volunteers will provide directions and guided tours.

Press contact:
Sandra Sabatini, sabatini@uoguelph.ca 519-824-4120 x53869
Jasmine Reimer, Graduate Open Studios Student Coordinator, openstudiosmfa@gmail.com
Sandra Rechico, Faculty Coordinator, srechico@uoguelph.ca   519-824-4120 x52324

 


ROBERTA SMITH "CRITICISM IN THE EXPANDED FIELD"

WEDNESDAY MARCH 19, 2014, 6:00PM
 

Roberta Smith will talk about how she became an art critic; her responsibilities as she sees them as well as the workaday nature of newspaper criticism, how her job and view of her job has changed over time and how both have been affected by academia, by social media and the globalized big-spending art world/market.

Roberta Smith was born in New York City in 1947 and raised in Lawrence, Kansas and graduated from Grinnell College, Iowa in 1969. She has written art criticism for the New York Times since October 1986. She was art critic for the Village Voice from 1981 to 1985 and in the 1970s, wrote for Artforum, Art in America and Arts Magazine. She worked on the Donald Judd catalog raisonnè and has contributed essays to museum catalogs on various artists, including Judd, Alex Katz, Elizabeth Murray and Cy Twombly. Smith has lectured widely and taught at the School of Visual Arts, NYC and the Rhode Island School of Design. She received art criticism grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1975 and 1980. In 2003, she received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism from the College Art Association. Smith lives in New York City with her husband, Jerry Saltz, senior art critic for New York Magazine.

The annual Shenkman Lecture was established in 2007 and is made possible through the support of Dasha Shenkman, a Canadian art collector who lives in the United Kingdom.

 

 


DAVE HICKEY "IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO MAKE BAD ART"

MARCH 20, 2013
 

Video of Dave Hickey presentation on youtube.The opinions expressed by the speaker are not necessarily those of the institution.

Dave Hickey will talk about the downside of economies of scale in art practice, art education, and art education in the age of  Global Art and the digital Global Village.  He will explain why bigger isn't necessarily better. 

Dave Hickey is a free-lance writer of fiction and cultural criticism.  He has recently retired as Professor of Practice at the University of New Mexico. He has served as owner-director of A Clean Well-Lighted Place in Austin, Texas, as  director of the Reese Palley Gallery in New York City, as executive director of Art in America Magazine in New York City, and as contributing editor to the Texas Observer, The Village Voice, Art Issues, and Context.  He has written for most major cultural publications in the United States and abroad.  These include The Rolling Stone, Art News, Art in America, Artforum, Interview, Harpers Magazine, Vanity Fair, Playboy, Nest, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times.  Hickey also wrote Revisions, a monthly column for Art in America Magazine.  He writes for the Art Newspaper, The London Review of Books and Frieze International in the UK, Situation in Paris and Parkett in Zurich.

He has published a volume of short fiction, Prior Convictions, SMU Press, 1982, The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty, Art Issue Press, 1993, The Invisible Dragon: Revised and Expanded,University of Chicago Press, 2008, Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy, Art Issues Press, 1998, selected as one of the most important books of the century in 2009 by Newsweek Magazine, Stardumb,Artspace Press, 1999, about artist John DeFazio, Hot Stuff: Essays on the Art of Women Artists,University of Chicago Press, 2012. Future works include: Connoisseur of Waves: More Essays on Art and Democracy, a sequel to Air Guitar in preparation by the University of Chicago Press to be released in 2013; Pagan America, forthcoming from Free Press in 2013; Pirates and Farmers: Essays on Culture and the Marketplace, Karsten Schubert, London, to follow publication of Pagan America; Feint of Heart: Essays of Individual Artists in two volumes in preparation at Chicago Press.

Hickey has also written 300+ exhibition catalogue monographs on contemporary artists including Nancy Rubins, Kenneth Price (2), Bridget Riley (2), John Chamberlain (2), Anthony Caro, Ellsworth Kelly, Ann Hamilton, Lari Pittman, Richard Serra (2), Robert Gober, Edward Ruscha (6), Terry Allen (5), Andy Warhol (5), Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Tom Wesselmann, Joan Mitchell, Vija Celmins, James Turrell, Vernon Fisher, Luis Jimenez, Barbara Bloom, Sol Lewitt, Sharon Ellis, and Michaelangelo Pisteletto, among others.

He has lectured extensively at universities and institutions in America and abroad.  These include Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Penn, Brown, Stanford, Duke, the Smithsonian Institution, the Rhode Island School of Design, Hunter College, the School of Visual Arts, Bard College, the University of Texas at Austin, Art Center of Pasadena, Otis Institute in Los Angeles, the Hirshorn Museum and the National Gallery in Washington, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Dia Center for the Arts, the Walker Art Center, the Dallas Museum of Fine Art, the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth and Miami-Basel in the United States.  He has lectured often in the United Kingdom at the Tate Modern, the Frieze Art Fair, the Royal College of Art and the Insitute of Contemporary Art.

He has received associated unsolicited grants and fellowships.  He was awarded the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for 2002-2007.  In May 2003, he received an honorary degree from The Rhode Island School of Design.  More recently, he received the 2006 Peabody Award for public journalism in recognition of his work as Project Advisor and Associate Producer for Ric Burns' four-hour biographical documentary of Andy Warhol for the American Masters series on PBS in November 2006.

Hickey has organized many exhibitions including Site Santa Fe in Sante Fe, New Mexico, July 2001-January 2002, which won the 2001-2002 Best Show in a Kunsthalle Award from the Association of International Critics of Art.  He is presently engaged in preparation for Ed Ruscha: Too Marvelous for Words for venues in Asia. He is also working as Project Advisor and Associate Producer on a PBS American Masters film on the artist Michael Heizer.