DAVE HICKEY
Professor of Art Theory and Criticism

Dave Hickey is a free-lance writer of fiction and cultural criticism. He has served as owner-director of A Clean Well-Lighted Place gallery in Austin, Texas, as director of the Reese Palley Gallery in New York City, as Executive Editor of Art in America Magazine in New York City, and as Contributing Editor to The Village Voice. He has written for most major American cul-tural publications including The Rolling Stone, Art News, Art in America, Artforum, Interview, Harper's Magazine, Vanity Fair, Nest, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times. He has published a volume of short fiction, Prior Convictions, with the SMU Press. His critical essays on art have been collected in two volumes published by Art Issues Press, The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (1993), which is in its sixth printing, and Air Guitar, Essays on Art and Democracy (1998), now in its third printing. His most recent book, Stardumb (Artspace Press, 1999), is a collection of stories with drawings by artist John DeFazio. He has written numerous exhibition catalogue monographs on contemporary artists including Bridget Riley, Ann Hamilton, Lari Pittman, Richard Serra, Robert Gober, Edward Ruscha, Terry Allen, Andy Warhol, Vija Celmins, Vernon Fisher, Luis Jimenez and Michaelangelo Pistelet-to. Hickey has lectured extensively at universi-ties and institutions in America and abroad. These include Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, the University of Texas at Austin, Art Center in Pasadena, Otis Institute in Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Los Angeles Museum of Contempo-rary Art, the Dia Center for the Arts, the Walker Art Center, the Dallas Museum of Fine Art, and the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth in the United States, and, in London, at The Royal College and the Institute of Contemporary Art. He has served as a visiting professor at numerous institutions, including the University of Texas at Austin, The University of California, Santa Barbara, the Otis Parsons Institute, Los Angeles, and The Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, Cambridge, and he has received assorted grants and fellowships. In 1997, HickeyÕs exhibition, Ultralounge: The Return of Social Space with Cocktails, was presented at Diverse Works in Houston, Texas, and in 1999 was reprised as Ultralounge II at the University of South Florida in Tampa, and at the Nevada Institute of Contemporary Art in Las Vegas. Hickey has organized a number of one-person shows for artists including David Reed, Peter Alexander, Karen Carson, Scott Grieger, Lynton Wells, and Jim Shaw. Presently, he is organizing Beau Monde, the fourth international biennial exhibition of Site Santa Fe, which opens in Santa Fe, New Mexico July 2001. Hickey serves as contributing editor to Art issues magazine in Los Angeles. In 1992, he presented The Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lecture Series on architecture theory at Cornell Univer-sity; he received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art or Architectural Criticism for the Year 1993, presented by the College Art Associ-a-tion in 1994; in 1997 he served as the Cullinan Chair of Architecture at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Hickey has been the subject of personal profiles in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, U.S. News and World Report, Texas Monthly magazine and other publications. Interviews with Hickey have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Bomb, New Art Examiner, Public and other newspapers and journals, and have been presented in PBS television and National Public Radio programs.