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Metaxu
2023
Havah… to breathe, air, life
Madison Square Park Project
January 17 – June 4, 2023
Mary-Am
Mid-Town Park, Houston, Texas
© Fabricated by Mayer of Munich
2020
Yin Yang Series 1
2019
Words Create Worlds, Series 1
2019
Perennial Gaze
2018
Zarina
© Fabricated by Mayer of Munich
2018
Double Sight
2018
Of Masks and Bull
2017
Rupture
2017
Night Flight
2016
Tower Of Babel
2016
Singing Suns
Video Animation
3 min 24 sec
2016
Ecstasy as Sublime, Heart as Vector
Princeton University, New Jersey
© Fabricated by Mayer of Munich
2016
Quintuplet-Effect
Princeton University, New Jersey
2016
Shahzia Sikander, Portrait of the Artist, 2016. One in a suite of four etchings, with accompanying collaborative text "Breath of Miraj" by Ayad Akhtar. Published by Pace Editions, Inc.
2016
Disruption as Rapture
video animation with 7.1 surround sound; Music by Du Yun featuring Ali Sethi; Animation by Patrick O'Rourke; Commissioned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art
10 min 7 sec
2016
Gopi-Contagion
Time Square, New York, NY
2015
The World is Yours, The World is Mine
2014
Epistrophe
2013
Prolonged Exposure
2013
Fixed Frame Flux
2013
Pivot
Istanbul Biennale
2013
Stasis
2013
Parallax
Digital animation with sound
15 min 25 sec
2013
Sift, Rift, Sip, Shift
2012
Orbit
Ink on Paper
2012
Inclusion and Exclusion
2012
The Cypress Despite Its freedom Is Held Captive to the Garden
Sharjah, Khorfakkan, UAE
C-Prints
2012-13
The Exploding Man and Other Abstractions
San Francisco Art Institute
Video Performace
2011
Faiz's Gift
2011
Many Ways of Seeing a Side
2011
Practice Makes Perfect
2011
Encapsulated Confrontation
2011
Why Talk About the Day When...
2011
Hohlraum
2011
Confrontation
2011
Explosion of the Company Man, Series I
2011
Unseen Series
Projection at the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, Shangri La, Honolulu, Hawaii
2011-2012
Walled States
Ink and gouache on paper
2011
Am I or Not My Own Enemy
Nelson-Atkins Museum Collection
2011-2012
Headless Wonders
2010
The Phallic Land-Escape
2010
Echo
2010
The Last Post
Video Animation
10 min
2010
Garden for Interpretation
2009
Invisible Camouflage
2009
The Langley Series
Graphite, ink and gouache on paper
Set of 4 works: 14 x 11 inches
2009
The Real Deal
2009
Dissemination
2009
Flutter
2009
Flights of Fancy
2009
In Our DNA
2009
Tone Deaf Top Brass
2009
Vertigo
2009
Ghalib's Circle
2009-2010
Big Dog
2009
Faith, Unity, Discipline
2009
Here Fido, Here Boy
2009
Umbilical Chord of Independence
2009
Redaction as Contamination
2009-2015
No man Stands Alone
2009
Alter Ego, After Goya
2009
An Integrated Cup of Tea
2009
Weapon of Choice
2009
Arteries and Artillery
2009
Butter Before Guns
2009
Blood Lines
2009
The Big Ritz 2
2009
Bending the Barrels
Video
20 min 28 sec
2009
Series of Transformations
Ink and graphite on paper
14 x 11 inches (each)
2009
Manicured Landscapes: Art History Positions
Ink on Paper
2009
Reckoning
Ink on Paper
2009
The Big Ritz
2009
Sinxay-Narrative as Dissolution
2008
Empire Follows Art
Ink, gouache, graphite and colored pencil on prepared paper
Set of 4 works, 27 x 20 inches
2008-2011
Landscape Composite
2007
Pendulum
Video
7 min 32 sec
2006-2008
Sinxay Series
Graphite on prepared paper
12 x 9 inches (each)
2006
Phenomenology of Transformation
Ink and gouache on prepared paper
59.75 x 41 inches (each)
2006
Hair Camouflage
2006
Monks and Novices
Graphite on paper
14 x 11 inches (each)
2006-2008
Desai Performance
Video
12 min 18 sec
2005
Dissonance to Detour
Digital animation with sound
3 min 30 sec
2005
Pathology of Suspension
Ink and gouache on prepared paper
77 1/2 x 51 1/2 inches (each)
2005
Flesh Flush
Ink and gouache on paper
15 x 12 inches (each)
2004
Flip Flop Archive
Gouache and ink on paper
15 x 12 inches (each)
2004
51 Ways of Looking
Graphite on paper
12 x 9 inches (each)
2004
Candied
Ink and gouache on paper
15 x 11 inches (each)
2003
Land Escape
Acrylic on archival vinyl over digital printing
40 x 60 inches (each)
2003
Divine Circle
2003
White to White Series
2003
Offering 1
2003
Leap of Faith
2003
Offering 2
2003
Unveiling
Gouache, ink and Acrylic on tissue paper
2003
Pursuit Curves
Digital animation (color, sound)
7 min 12 sec
2003
SpiNN
Digital animation with sound
6:38 min
2003
United World Corp.
2003
Negotiation
2002
Prey
2002
Running on Empty
2002
The Pink Pavillion
Ink, gouache on paper
2002
Usurpia
2002
No Fly Zone
2002
Nemesis
Digital animation with sound
2:02 min
2002-2003
Utopia
2002-2003
Web
2002
Intimacy
Computer animation
4 min
2001
Dark Kingdoms
2001
Odyssey
2001
Maligned Monsters
2001
Gopi Crisis
2001
Sly Offering
2001
Intimacy
2001
Turmoil
2001
Pleasure Pillars
2001
Monsters to Midgets Series
2001
Monsters Within
2001
Prolonged Exposure to Agitation
Ink on Paper
2001-2009
No Parking Anytime Portfolio
2001
Writing the Written
2000
Riding the Ridden
2000
Maligned Monsters
2000
Pleasing Dislocation
1999
Cyclical
1999
Claw
1999
In Our Mind or on Our Head
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
1999
Then and N.O.W. - Rapunzel Dialogues Cinderella
1997
Cholee Kay Peechay Kya? Chunree Kay Nichay Kya? (What is Under the Blouse? What is Under the Dress?)
1997
Veil 'n Trail
1997
Red Riding Hood
1997
Ready to Leave?
Whitney Museum Collection
1997
Uprooted Order Series
1997
Hoods Red Rider II
1997
The Many Faces of Islam
Gouache, vegetable color, watercolor, and tea on wasli paper
1997-99
Untitled
1996
Fragmented Disorder
1996
Cycles and Transitions
1996
Self-Rooted
1995
Dislocation
1995
Spaces in Between
1995
Venus's Wonderland
1995
Housed
1995
Untitled
1994
Untitled
1994
Untitled
1994
Untitled
1994
Writing the Ridden
1993
A Slight and Pleasing Dislocation
1993
Écriture Feminine Series
1993-1995
Untitled
1992
Untitled
1992
Riding the Written
1992
Thinking Outside the Box
1992-1993
Miniature in Mughal Style, Invisible Man
1991-1992
The Scroll II
1991
In Your Head and Not on my Feet
1991
Mirrat I and II
1989-1990
Who's Veiled Anyway?
Whitney Museum Collection
1989-1997
The Scroll
1989-1990
First color, 'Gad Rang' Assignment, NCA
1989
Eye-I-ing Those Armorial Bearings III
1989-97
Eye-I-ing Those Armorial Bearings IV
1989-97
Eye-I-ing Those Armorial Bearings II
1989-97
Elusive Realities
1989-2000
Eye-I-Ing Those Armorial Bearings
1989-97
Perilous Order
1989-97
Reinventing the Dislocation
1989-1997
Miniature, After Africa
1988
Untitled
1987
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