ALISTAIR HICKS

Curator, Writer and Advisor

Alistair Hicks is the author of the Global Art Compass. He was the curator of two exhibitions devoted to Paula Rego at the Gestner Gesellschaft in Hanover and at the Pera Museum in Istanbul. Also at the Pera in 2017 he curated Doublethink: Doublevision, an exhibition that showed artists from around the world reassessing the way we think. Much of his work is aimed at trying to cut through the art politics and artspeak to show how rich and diverse our times are.

For twenty years he was Senior Curator at Deutsche Bank. While at Deutsche Bank his main job was selecting and presenting art to purchase committees. He created the Man Booker Library while he was art advisor to Man Group. Currently he writes for Art Focus and is working on books and exhibitions on Francis Bacon, Frank Bowling, Susan Derges, Marcel Dzama, David Evans, Marko Maetamm, Pavel Pepperstein and Victor Willing.

Hicks specialises in contempoorary art but, as he was an editor for many years of an Antique Magazine, advises private and corporate clients on art of all periods

Hicks has been an art critic for such diverse publications as The Spectator, The Times, The Financial Times, Apollo and Vogue. He was Editor of Antique and Mercury from 1983-1996.

He lives in London with his wife Rebecca Hicks who runs the Purdy Hicks Gallery. They have two daughters who live in Rome.