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LOGAN HICKS

Logan Hicks(born March 14, 1971) is an American contemporary visual artist & photographer whom emerged from the Baltimore art scene. He first became known for his hand cut large scale stencils often of highly detailed urban landscapes. His work became more widely known in 2005 in the 5 city Asian tour hosted by K-Swiss where artists Sixten, Phibs  & Hicks visited Tokyo, Taipei, Seoul, Bangkok and Hong Kong stenciling in front of a large audience with a DJ present. Later he would continue on doing similar shows in Shanghai, Los Angeles and New York. It was during his New York exhibition with K-Swiss that he decided to move from LA to New York City. He is considered one of the most prolific and adept stencilers of our time having cut many of the intricate stencils he is known for in his early years literally by hand. The largest size painting that he has done is 13x15 ft for a show in San Francisco titled Layered. His outdoor murals are generally larger. The largest mural being 40 x 8ft.

EARLY LIFE Logan Hicks was born in Key West, Florida but raised in Baltimore Maryland. In Baltimore Logan had a 6000 sq ft warehouse space that he threw art parties pulling together the art and music that was happening in the Baltimore scene. The first show was in 1996 and was titled “Cones and Rods”. The 2nd show in 1998 was called “New Blood”. It was during this show that Shepard Fairey became involved, staying with Hicks and exhibiting work. Logan attributes Fairey to being one of his single largest influences, stating “For the first time I had seen that people could do art that wasn't stuffy gallery art, it was relevant, young and energetic.” It was during this time that he found Juxtapoz magazine which also helped him solidify his intentions on pursuing his own art rather then simply producing and screen printing t-shirts for outside clients.

EDUCATION In 1999 he left Maryland Institute College of Art just 3 credits shy of a degree to move to San Diego start Work Horse Printing Co.Italic text where he lived and worked out of a space behind Shephard Fairey's design space.

CAREER Logans first major solo exhibition was in 2008 was held at the Black Rat Press in London. In 2009 Ron English invited Logan to be in a group show at Opera Gallery, leading to his solo show in the same Gallery in 2009. In 2012 he had a solo show at the Lazarides Gallery, a gallery known for representing BANKSY at the peak of his infamy. Logans 2014 exhibition schedule consists of shows in Bogota, Columbia and Istanbul Turkey.