Amy Hicks creates videos and films that investigate the threshold
between imagination (mental) and actualization (physical). Trained in
photography, she began making experimental work with film, video, and
analog/digital combinations in 1999. She often merges animation with
live video, the indexical and the artifice, in an attempt to visually
describe a thought process, an idea or form that is in the process of
becoming—something invisible to the naked eye, yet still rooted in the
real.
Her award-winning films and videos such as Suspended Series and
ReAdaptation: the book series have appeared in museums, galleries, and
film festivals around the globe from California to New York and Poland
to France including the Ann Arbor Film Festival (MI), Pacific Film
Archive (CA), San Jose Museum of Art (CA), the Musée d’Art Moderne et
Contemporain (Strassbourg, FR), diRosa Preserve: Art and Nature (CA),
San Francisco International Film Festival (CA), and Institute of
Contemporary Art (PA) among others. Her collaborative work has been
included in group shows at The LAB (CA) and the Lower Manhattan
Cultural Council (NY).
Born in Lewiston, New York Hicks received her undergraduate degree in
studio art from UC Riverside in 1990 and MFA from Stanford University
in 2005. Amy Hicks is an Assistant Professor at the University of
Delaware where she teaches lens and time-based art.