A graduate of Harvard University's comparative literature program, Hicks is currently visualart critic, arts writer, and arts columnist for Creative Loafing, Atlanta's preeminent alternative
weekly newspaper. He founded Code Z: Black Visual Culture Now, an online daily newsmagazine in 2006. From 2003 to 2005 he edited and produced the arts resource blog The Electric
Skin, profiled by Art in America as one of 10 blogs most worth daily reading. He currentlyserves on the board of Art Papers magazine, as well as on a number of art prize and curatorial
committees. Hicks is currently creative director of the Atlanta Art Now book series and a co-author of its inaugural volume NOPLACENESS: Art and the Post-Urban Landscape.ééééé