BIOGRAPHY

Born 1969
Lahore, Pakistan. Lives and works in New York City


EDUCATION

1995 - MFA Rhode Island School of Design. Providence, Rhode Island
1992 - BFA National College of Arts. Lahore, Pakistan



Is It Me, or Is It You or Is It Our, Racial Veils, 1997
Acrylic on wall
6.5x9ft overall
Installation view, Selections,
The Drawing Center, New York, 1997


SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2006

Shahzia Sikander: New Work,” Sikkema Jenkins & Co.  NY, NY. Special Exhibition May 22- May 26, 2006

2005

"51 Ways of Looking," Brent Sikkema New York, NY,
March 18-April 16
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

2004

Shahzia Sikander: Nemesis, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, January 24-April 11; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, September 19, 2004-January 2, 2005

Shahzia Sikander: Flip Flop, The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California,
March 27-June 27
"Contemporary Links: Shahzia Sikander." The San Diego Museum of Art,San Diego,CA

2003

Drawing to Drawing, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, Dec 15-Jan 31,04
SpiNN, Brent Sikkema, New York, January 11-February 8

2001

Intimacy, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas,
March 16-May 13

2000

Acts of Balance, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York,
April 21-July 7

1999

Directions: Shahzia Sikander, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., November 18, 1999-February 21, 2000

1998

Shahzia Sikander, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago,
March 8-April 19

Shahzia Sikander: Drawings and Miniatures, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, Missouri, November 13, 1998-January 10, 1999


1997

Murals and Miniatures, Deitch Projects, New York, November 1-November 29
A Kind of Slight and Pleasing Dislocation, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, April 26-May 31

1996

Knock Knock Who's There? Mithilia, Mithilia Who? Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas, April
Art Celebration 96: Shahzia Sikander, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas

1993

Pakistan Embassy, Washington DC


51 Ways Of Looking, 2004
Installation view, Nemesis,
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 2004



SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS



2006

“Dirty Yoga: 2006 Taipei Biennial,” Taipei, Taiwan,
November 4, 2006 – February 25, 2007.
“Domains of Wonder: Masterworks of Indian painting,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, September 20 – November 26.
“Without Boundary: Seventeen ways of Looking,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, February 26- May 22
“Shahzia Sikander”, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA,
April 17-June17.
“SpiNN,” Video Venice section of the Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Adelaide Australia.
“Nuevos Misticos/New Mystics” Instituto Cabrera Pinto, La Laguna. tenerife. Spain, June 30- September 3, 2006

2005

“Translation”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, June 23- September 18, 2005 
"Always a little further," Curated by Rosa Martinez, 51st International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice Italy 
New Work/ New Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, June 28- September 26 
“Drawing Narrative,” College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH, October 28- December 9, 2005 
Fatal Love:  South Asian American Art Now, The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York, NY, February 27 – June 12 
Zeitsprunge Raumfolgen, IFA: Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen, Berlin, Germany, October 21- January 22, 2006


2004

The Print Show, Exit Art, NY, Dec 4, 2004- Jan 30, 2005
First International Biennial of Contemporary Art-The joy of my dreams, Charterhouse of Santa Maria de las Cuevas, Seville, Spain, Oct 3-Dec5, 2004
Through Master's Eyes, LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, May15- Aug1, 2004
Anywhere but here-Seven artists Permanent Commissions for Barts and The London Breast Care Center, Opened Sept 28, 2004
Watercolor Worlds, Dorsky Gallery, New York, February 8-April 5
Along the X-Axis: Video Art from India and Pakistan, Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi, India, March-April
Beyond East and West, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, January 23-April 4; Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, April 16-September 4; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 9-December 12; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, February 19, 2004- May 15, 2005


2003

Poetic Justice, Eighth International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey, September 19-November 16
Aliens in America: Others in the USA, Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, September 13-October 22
Drawing the World: Masters to Hipsters, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 28-September 21


2002

AOP 2002: The 37th Art on Paper Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina, November 17, 2002-January 19, 2003
Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, Museum of Modern Art, Queens, New York, October 17, 2002-January 6, 2003
Time/Frame, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, January 25-July 28
Urgent Painting, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, Paris, January 17-March 3


2001-2004

"Conversations with Traditions, Nilima Sheikh and Shahzia Sikander"- Asia Society, New York; traveled to: Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT; Royal Museum of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (Catalog)


2001

Conversations with Traditions: Nilima Sheikh and Shahzia Sikander, The Asia Society, New York, November 17, 2001- February 17, 2002; Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont, September 12, 2002-December 1, 2002; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, June 12, 2003-September 7, 2003
ARS 01, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, September 30, 2001-January 20, 2002
Elusive Paradise: The Millennium Prize, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, February 9-May 13
Threads of Vision: Toward a New Feminine Poetics, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, September 14-November 25
Expanding Tradition: Contemporary Works Influenced by Indian Miniatures, Deutsche Back Lobby Gallery, New York, April 3 - May 18
New Works: 01.1 Rivane Neuenschwander, Shahzia Sikander, Tony Villejo, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas, March 16-May13
New Artists, Recent Works, Rhotas Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan


2000

Projects 70, Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 22, 2000-March 13, 2001
00, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, June 1-September 27
Drawing on the Figure: Works on paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, March 18-June 25
Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, New York, February 27-May 16


1999

Art-Worlds in Dialogue, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, November 5, 1999-March 19, 2000
The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000, Part II, 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 26, 1999-February 13, 2000
Beyond the Future: The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, September 9, 1999-January 26, 2000
Negotiating Small Truths, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, September 2-October 24


1998

Cinco continentes y una ciudad: Salón internacional de pintura, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City, November 26, 1998-February 28, 1999
I Love New York, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany, November 6, 1998- January 31, 1999.
Pop Surrealism, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, June 7-August 30
Global Vision: New Art from the 90s, Part II, Deste Foundation, Center for Contemporary Art, Athens, May 7, 1998-January 30, 1999
On Liberating Tradition: Byron Kim, Yinka Shonibare and Shahzia Sikander, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York, May 10-24
On the Wall, Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri
Hedge: Between Time and Intent. Thomas Healy, New York


1997

Project Painting, Lehman Maupin Gallery, New York, September 10-October 11
Selections Spring ‘97, The Drawing Center, New York, February 20-March 29
Three Great Walls, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Out of India: Contemporary Art of the South Asian Diaspora, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, New York. November 21, 1997-March 22, 1998
Biennial International for Sculpture and Drawing, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 20-June 15


1996

An Intelligent Rebellion, Women Artists of Pakistan, Cartwright Hall, Lister Park, Bradford, England; Rotherham Art Gallery, Rotherham, England, September 8-October 21
Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas
Core Fellows Exhibition 1996, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas


1994

A Selection of Contemporary Paintings from Pakistan, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California





BIBLIOGRAPHY



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AWARDS


2006 Young Global leader, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, 2006 

2005 Tamgha-e-imtiaz, National Medal of Honor, Government of Pakistan 

2003 Commendation Award, Mayor's Office, City of New York

1999
South Asian Women's Creative Collective Achievement Award

1998-99
The Joan Mitchell Award

1997
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award

1995-97
Core Fellowship, Glassel School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

1993-95
Graduate Fellowship Award, Rhode Island School of Design

1993
Shakir Ali Award/Kipling award, (highest merit award) National College of Arts Lahore
Haji Sharif Award, (excellence in Miniature Painting) National College of Arts, Lahore

1992
Distinction Award, Thesis Project, National College of Arts, Lahore

 

 

 

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Packaged Paradise , 2003
Acrylic on wall
Dimensions variable
Installation view, Platform,
Garanati Contemporary Art
Center, Istanbul Biennial, 2003


















Selections from the series
51 Ways of Looking
, 2004
Ink and graphite on paper
12x9"
Courtesy of the artist and Brent Sikkema, New York