Sedrick Huckaby
Installation Images
Selected Works
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