FUTURE PASS - FROM ASIA TO THE WORLD
54TH VENICE BIENNALE  June 4 - November 6, 2011

Abbazia di San Gregorio
Dorsoduro 172
30123 Venice

Palazzo Mangilli-Valmarana
Cannaregio 4392
30121 Venice

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SHAHZIA SIKANDER: THE EXPLODING COMPANY MAN
AND OTHER ABSTRACTIONS
SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE
Walter and McBean Galleries, 800 Chestnut Street
April 23 - June 25, 2011
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REVIEW: ART FORUM

REVIEW: SQUARE CYLINDER

REVIEW: ART PRACTICAL

Shahzia Sikander, Gossamer, 2010, still taken from a HD video, 11 minutes, 21 seconds.

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PILAR CORRIAS GALLERY
SHAHZIA SIKANDER
I AM ALSO NOT MY OWN ENEMY
October 16 - November 21, 2009
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Pilar Corrias Gallery is delighted to present ‘I am also not my own enemy’ the London debut of critically acclaimed artist Shahzia Sikander. Since the early 1990s, Shahzia Sikander has been instrumental in the rediscovery, re-infusion, and re-contextualization of Indo-Persian miniature painting. Trained as a miniaturist at the National College of Arts, Lahore, Sikander has pioneered an experimental approach to the anachronistic genre. Encompassing painting; drawing; animation; installation; video, and film Sikander’s multi-dimensional praxis radically rearticulates the miniaturist tradition by inserting new dialogue that is often subversive and polemical in nature. Working from a rich ‘mental archive of imagery’, Sikander’s visual vocabulary engages a multiplicity of themes including transformation as narrative, the exploration of disruption as a means to cultivate new associations, and issues concerning labour, scale and time.
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RECENT ARTICLE: THE END OF SOMETHING
by Aditya Dev Sood
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SOMETHING ABOUT MARY
GALLERY MET, NEW YORK CITY
Sept 22-Jan 2010
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SHAHZIA SIKANDER: AUTHORITY AS APPROXIMATION
PARA/SITE ART SPACE, HONG KONG
Sept 3- Sept 30, 2009
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THE 4TH FUKUOKA ASIAN ART TRIENNALE
FUKUOKA, JAPAN
Sept 5- Nov 23, 2009
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MOVING PERSPECTIVES: SHAHZIA SIKANDER AND SUN XUN
SACKLER GALLERY, THE SMITHSONIAN, WASHINGTON DC
July 18 - Nov 18, 2009
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TASWIR: PICTORIAL MAPPINGS OF ISLAN OF MODERNITY
MARTIN-GROPIUS-BAU, BERLIN, GERMANY
Nov 5 – Jan 18, 2010 (Catalogue)
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MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
COMPASS IN HAND: SELECTIONS FROM THE JUDITH ROTHSCHILD FOUNDATION CONTEMPORARY DRAWINGS COLLECTION
April 22 – Jan 4, 2010
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RECENT/PAST EXHIBITIONS

SIKKEMA JENKINS & CO.
SHAHZIA SIKANDER
STALEMATE
April 3 – May 2, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, April 3, 6-8PM
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READ REVIEW ON STALEMATESikkema Jenkins & Co. is pleased to announce the exhibition Stalemate featuring new work by Shahzia Sikander. Culling information from a range of sources, across different cultures and time periods, Shahzia Sikander uses painting and drawing, moving pictures and music, text and imagery, to create artwork that subverts notions of authority and its joust with time.
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COOPER-HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM
SHAHZIA SIKANDER SELECTS: WORKS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION
March 6 – September 7, 2009
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Shahzia Sikander and Glenn Lowry in conversation
Thursday, March 26, 2009
6:30PM lecture at Cooper-Hewitt
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Internationally acclaimed artist Shahzia Sikander will serve as the ninth guest curator of the “Selects” exhibition series in the Nancy and Edwin Marks Gallery, devoted to showing the museum’s permanent collection. Sikander will mine and interpret the museum’s collection and produce an installation of selected work. This exhibition will include a new work created by Sikander, inspired by Cooper-Hewitt’s collection. Trained as a miniaturist at the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, Sikander merges the traditional South Asian art of miniature painting with contemporary forms and styles. Her work explores the relationship between the present and the past and the richness of multicultural identities.
Shahzia Sikander Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection is made possible
in part by Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz.
The Shahzia Sikander Selects brochure was made possible by funds
from the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
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SIGNIFICANT AND INSIGNIFICANT EVENTS
ISTANBUL MODERN, ISTANBUL, TURKEY
May 26– Aug 16, 2009
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IT'S FINE AS LONG AS YOU DRAW BUT DON'T FILM
PILAR CORRIAS GALLERY, LONDON, UK
May 22 – July 4, 2009
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A DECADE OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PRINTMAKING: 1999-2009
TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, BEIJING, CHINA
May 29 – June 13, 2009
TODAY ART MUSEUM, BEIJING, CHINA
July 5 – July 24, 2009
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DAAD GALERIE
INTERSTITIAL: 24 FACES AND THE 25th FRAME
Oct 10 - Dec 6, 2008
Berlin, Germany

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THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (SYDNEY)
Nov 27 - Feb 17, 2008
Sydney, Australia
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PAST ANNOUNCEMENTS:

NOTEWORTHY ARTICLE: VIEW OF THE GLOBAL ARTIST:
"...Traditionally, visual art has been a culturally reductive form of human expression, whereby communities, tribes, cities and countries have defined their identity. We have been quick to label art as ‘eastern or western’, ‘indigenous or foreign’, ‘Christian or Islamic’, and so the list goes on as galleries define their areas of specialty. However, artists such as Shahzia Sikander are transcending such categorisations and resent being exoticised as simply Asian or Pakistani."
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SHAHZIA SIKANDER NAMED A MACARTHUR FELLOW
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.
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