Amy Hicks is an artist, educator, and member of the Philadelphia-based collective Grizzly Grizzly. Working in video, 16mm film, and rudimentary animation, she investigates how extractive industries and inherited ideologies shape environments, bodies, and systems of meaning. Grounded in research and site, Hicks often films at contaminated or abandoned places such as landfills, shuttered factories, and Wilhelm Reich’s former laboratory.
Her films and collaborative projects have been exhibited internationally in museums, galleries, and film festivals, including the Pacific Film Archive (CA), Berman Museum of Art (PA), San Jose Museum of Art (CA), Henry Art Gallery (WA), Institute of Contemporary Art (PA), Galerija Miroslav Kraljević (Croatia), and Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain (France). She has received funding from the San Francisco Art Commission, the Film Arts Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, and the University of Delaware, along with fellowships from the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and the Philadelphia Foundation for the Flaherty Seminar. With funding from the Velocity Fund, a regranting initiative of the Andy Warhol Foundation, she co-edited In Retrospect: 10 Years, 10 Essays, 10 Exhibits, Grizzly Grizzly’s first publication.
Hicks has presented at SECAC, CAA, and the Common Field Convening, contributing to national conversations on artist-run spaces, community engagement, and sustainability in the arts. In 2025, she was one of three curators invited to organize the Art + AI biennial at the Delaware Contemporary and contribute to the accompanying anthology. She earned her MFA from Stanford University and is currently Associate Professor of Art and Design at the University of Delaware.