Basic Info

Name: Shahzia Sikander
Country of Origin: PK
Website: https://www.shahziasikander.com

Description

biography and picture are courtesy of the artist:
Shahzia Sikander is widely celebrated for subverting Central and South-Asian miniature painting traditions into dialogue with contemporary international art practices and launching the form known today as neo-miniature. Engaging ideas of language, trade, empire, and migration through feminist perspectives, Sikander’s paintings, video animations, mosaics and sculpture explore gender, sexuality, racial narratives, and colonial histories. Sikander is a recipient of the MacArthur Genius award and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation’s Pollock Prize for Creativity, among others. A survey exhibition, Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behaviour presented by the Cleveland Museum of Art and Cincinnati Art
Museum as a Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, was on view until October 20th, 2024, before complementary iterations were then presented in parallel at both Ohio institutions until June—and will also travel to the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, opening on September 27, 2025.