Sedrick Huckaby

Installation Images

Selected Works

Sedrick Huckaby
What to Do with Difference: Bernard, 2020
Mixed media on paper
16 1/2h x 11 1/2w inches
Framed: 20 1/4h x 15 1/2w x 1d inches
Sedrick Huckaby
What to Do with Difference: Shamira, 2020
Mixed media on paper
16 1/2h x 11 1/2w inches
Framed: 20 1/4h x 15 1/2w x 1d inches
 
Sedrick Huckaby
What to Do with Difference: Moriah, 2020
Mixed media on paper
16 1/2h x 11 1/2w inches
Framed: 20 1/4h x 15 1/2w x 1d inches
 
Sedrick Huckaby
Hidden in Plain Sight I, 2011
Oil on canvas
108h x 174w x 4d inches
Sedrick Huckaby
Carry, Aunt Carry, Nosy, 2013
Oil on canvas
72h x 48w inches
Sedrick Huckaby
Jeanette, Net, Nanna, 2013
Oil on canvas
72h x 48w inches
 
Sedrick Huckaby
Mary, Mary-Lu, Missionary Parker, 2013
Oil on canvas
72h x 48w x 3d inches
 

Biography

Sedrick Huckaby’s paintings, drawings, and sculpture metaphorically express universal themes of faith, family, community, and heritage. Huckaby focuses on the subjects of quilts and portraits in his quest to glorify everyday people. Huckaby received his BFA from Boston University and his MFA from Yale University. Huckaby is the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright Fellowship, and American Academy of Arts and Letters Award. Additionally, he is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, Elizabeth Greenshield Award, a Davison Family Fellowship from the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the Elaine De Kooning House Residency and the Art for Change Residency in New Delhi, India. Huckaby’s work has entered the permanent collections of numerous museums and institutions including the American Embassy in Namibia; Amon Carter Museum of American Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Harvard Art Museums; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Nasher Museum at Duke University; National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.; Yale University Art Gallery; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born in 1975, Huckaby lives and works in his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas. He is married to artist Letitia Huckaby and is the father of three children, Rising Sun, Halle Lujah and Rhema Rain Huckaby.

Exhibitions

On-site and Individual Works

Sedrick Huckaby

What to Do with Difference
Talley Dunn Gallery
November 4 – December 16, 2023

Sedrick Huckaby

Goin’ Up Yonder
Talley Dunn Gallery
March 5 – April 23, 2022

Off-site

Sedrick Huckaby

Witness: Black Artists in Texas Then and Now
The Grace Museum
October 14, 2023 – February 3, 2024

Sedrick Huckaby

Kinfolk House: A Transformative New Community Art Space in Fort Worth
NorthPark Center
February 15 – March 20, 2023

Sedrick Huckaby

Kinship
National Portrait Gallery
October 28, 2022 – January 7, 2024

Sedrick Huckaby

Round 54: Southern Survery Biennial
Project Row Houses
October 8, 2022 – February 12, 2023

Letitia and Sedrick Huckaby

Welcome
Kinfolk House
March 4 – April 24, 2022

Letitia and Sedrick Huckaby

A Glimpse of Glory
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts
December 9, 2021 – March 20, 2022

Sedrick Huckaby

Sedrick Huckaby
Blanton Museum of Art
May 29 – December 5, 2021

Sedrick Huckaby

Look, Listen and Respond
Bode Projects – Berlin, Germany
June 26 – July 31, 2021

Videos

Press

The Brooklyn Rail

“No Place Like Home: Kinfolk House as a Site-Specific Work”
by Jessica Fuentes
Spring 2024

The Washington Informer

“Portraits of Persistence: National Portrait Gallery Spotlights Juneteenth Pioneers”
by Andrew S. Jacobson
March 12, 2024

Hyperallergic

“Kinship Amid a Loneliness Epidemic”
by AX Mina
May 24, 2023

Glasstire

“Uncanny Homes in Project Row Houses’ ‘Round 54: Southern Survey Biennial'”
by Rosa Boshier González 
February 7, 2023

UTA News

“Artist Huckaby Named Fulbright Scholar”
by Devynn Case
July 11, 2022

Glasstire

“2022 Joan Mitchell Center Artist Residency to Include Two Texas Artists”
by Jessica Fuentes
May 10, 2022

Texas Monthly

“Big Momma’s House Is Texas’s Most Intriguing New Art Space”
by Michael Agresta
March 21, 2022

D Magazine

“Conjuring Spirits and Community at Fort Worth’s Kinfolk House”
by Taylor Crumpton
March 10, 2022

D Magazine

“Home is Where the Art Is”
by Alex Temblador
February 15, 2022

Dallas Innovates

“Local Artist Couple Opens Community Art Space in a Century-Old Historic Fort Worth Home”
by Alex Edwards
October 20, 2021

Forbes

“George W. Bush’s Painting Teacher Shows What He Can Do With A Quilt In A New Exhibition”
by Brienne Walsh
June 11, 2021

Texas Monthly

“Painter Sedrick Huckaby Looks His Subjects in the Eye, From Dreamers to an Ex-President”
by Michael Agresta
June 2, 2021

Bostonia

“Extraordinary Paintings, Ordinary People”
by Marc Chalufour
February 18, 2020

Image Journal

“Ecstatic Dislocation: The Art of Sedrick Huckaby”
by Joe Milazzo
Issue 90