Sedrick Huckaby

Installation Images

Selected Works

Sedrick Huckaby
A Living Sacrifice, 2021
Newspaper pulp
72h x 31w x 38d inches
Sedrick Huckaby
Connection, 2020
Oil on canvas, wood, newspaper pulp
Painting: 72h x 48w inches
Sculpture: 43h x 28w x 19d 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
 
Sedrick Huckaby
Gone But Not Forgotten: Momma, 2019
Oil and charcoal on canvas on panel, hand-made artist frame
71 3/4h x 47 1/2w inches
Sedrick Huckaby
Never Forgotten, Daddy, 2018
Oil on canvas
71h x 48w 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 states, “I believe my paintings are done in a language more closely in tune with my soul than the language of my tongue.” Huckaby is known for his monumental scale of painting, with his largest painting thus far being his 80 foot long, four-part painting, A Love Supreme, painted over a period of eight years, for which Huckaby was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Huckaby is also the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, an honorable mention award winner in the 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition and a 2019 finalist. Additionally, he is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell foundation grant, Elizabeth Greenshield Award, and was the Texas State Artist for 2018. After earning a BFA at Boston University in 1997, and an MFA from Yale University in 1999, he participated in the Provencetown Fine Arts Work Center residency and traveled the U.S. and Europe studying old master paintings. When he returned to the U.S. Huckaby settled into his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas, where he was born in 1975. Since returning home, he has been invited to participate in a number of residencies and fellowships including 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, Cambridge, CT; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art. 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

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

Off-site

Letitia Huckaby and 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

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