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Shahzia Sikander

(Pakistani, born 1969)

Shahzia Sikander

Orbit, 2012

4,500 USD

Biography

Timeline

1969: Born in Lahore, Pakistan
1992: B.F.A., National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
: 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
: Distinction Award, Thesis Project, National College of Arts, Lahore
1993 - 1995: Graduate Fellowship Award, Rhode Island School of Design
1995 - 1997: Core Fellowship, Glassel School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1995: M.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1997: The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
1998 - 1999: The Joan Mitchell Award
1999: South Asian Women's Creative Collective Achievement Award
2003: Commendation Award, Mayor's Office, City of New York
2005: Tamgha-e-imtiaz, National Medal of Honor, Government of Pakistan
: Jennifer Howard Coleman Distinguished Lectureship and Residency
2006: Young Global leader, World Economic Forum
: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, 2006
2007 - 2008: Artist-in-residence, Daad program (Berliner Kunstlerprogramm, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst)
2008: Performing and Visual Arts Achiever of the Year award presented by the South Asian Excellence Awards, 2008
2009: The Inaugural Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Creative Arts Fellowship
: Lives and works in New York City and Pakistan

Exhibitions

2018: Shahzia Sikander Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Listening to Art, Seeing Music, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Ontario
Lahore Biennale 01, Shehr O Funn, Lahore, Pakistan
Long, Winding Journeys: Contemporary Art, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
Scale: Possibilities of Perspective, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, New York
The World on Paper – Collection Deutsche Bank, Museum PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, Germany
Witness: Themes of Social Justice in Contemporary Printmaking and Photography, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, United States
2017: Shahzia Sikander Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
A Journey Into The Great Unknown, Asian Art Mueum, San Francisco, California (solo exhibition)
Disruption as Rapture, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada (solo exhibition)
PARALLAX, Carleton College, Minnesota (solo exhibition)
Parallax, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii (solo exhibition)
Project Gallery: Shahzia Sikander, Perez Art Museum, Miami, Florida (solo exhibition)
Disruption as Rapture, Karachi Biennale 17: Witness, Karachi, Pakistan
Art of “Whose” People, Columbia University, New York
Everything we do is music, Drawing Room, London
Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions: South Asian Art in the Diaspora, Asia Society Museum, New York
Selected, Sean Kelly, New York
Summer Choices: A Group Exhibition, Part 1, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, California
Summer Choices: A Group Exhibition, Part 2, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, California
2016: Shahzia Sikander Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Ecstasy As Sublime, Heart As Vector, MAXXI | Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy (solo exhibition)
Shahzia Sikander: Apparatus of Power, Chantal Miller Gallery, Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Hong Kong, China (solo exhibition)
20th Anniversary Exhibition, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, California
Drawing Conclusions, RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
Mixtape 2016, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Performing Time, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
Scenes for a New Heritage, Museum of Modern Art, New York (solo exhibition)
Women in Print, Pace Prints, New York
2015: Shahzia Sikander Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Midnight Moment: Gopi Contagion, Times Square Arts, New York (solo exhibition)
Parallax, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts (solo exhibition)
Parallax, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain (solo exhibition) Shahzia Sikander, Tufts University Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts (solo exhibition)
Shahzia Sikander, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York (solo exhibition)
Annual 2015: The Depth of the Surface, National Academy Museum, New York
Come as You Are: Are of the 1990s, curated by Alexandra Schwartz, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Doris Duke’s Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape and Islamic Art, curated by Donald Albrecht and Tom Mellins, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
Hare & Hound Press + artpace: the Art of Collaboration, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas
Our Land / Alien Territory (part of the special program of the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art), Manege, Moscow, Russia
Teoria del duende, Fundación Federico Garcia Lorca, Madrid (and Grenada), Spain
2014: Shahzia Sikander Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Parallax, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden (solo exhibition)
Parallax, Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, Texas (solo exhibition)
Parallax, Nicolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen (solo exhibition)
Project Gallery: Shahzia Sikander, Perez Art Museum, Miami, Florida (solo exhibition)
Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Past Traditions, Exhibit 320 curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt, New Delhi, India
Infinite Challenge, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Past Traditions/New Voices in Asian Art, Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, New York
Still Moves, ArtC Phoenix Market City, Chennai, India
Stranger than Fiction: Art of Our Time, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Yebisu International Festival for Art and Architecture, Tokyo, Japan
2013: 13th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey
2011: The Exploding Company Man and other Abstractions, San Francisco Art Institute, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco - USA (solo)
2010: Transformations, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo -JP (solo)
: By Day, By Night, or some (special) things a museum can do: An Exhibition in two time zones, Rockbund Museum, Shanghai – CN
: Transformation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo - JP
: ‘Stalemate.’ Sikkema Jenkins & Co. New York – USA (solo)
: ‘Shahzia Sikander Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection,’ Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. New York – USA (Curator) (solo)
: Shahzia Sikander ‘I am also not my own enemy’, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London - UK (solo)
: Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York - USA
: A Decade of Contemporary American Printmaking: 1999-2009, Tsinghua University, Beijing – CN
: Something About Mary, Gallery Met, New York - USA
: Significant and Insignificant Events, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul –TK
: Moving Perspectives: Shahzia Sikander and Sun Xun, Sackler Gallery, The Smithsonian, Washington DC – USA
: The 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka – JP
2009: Taswir: Pictorial Mappings of Islan of Modernity, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin – DE
: ‘It’s fine as long as you draw but don’t film’, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London – UK
: ‘ev+a 2008 too early for vacation,’ Limerick – IR
: ‘The Big Bang.’ Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome – IT
2008: ‘Intimate Ambivalence,’ IKON Gallery, Birmingham – UK (solo)
: Order. Desire. Light. : An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawings,’ Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin – IR
: Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin – IR (solo)
2007: ‘Delicatessen,’ University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton – USA
: Don’t Look: Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna’s Collection (Martina Yamin, class of 1958) Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley – USA
: ‘In Wonderland,’ Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale – USA
: ‘Timer 01/Intimacy,’ Triennale Bosvisa, Milan – IT
: ‘The Quiet in The Land", National Museum, Luang Prabang, Laos – TH
: ‘New Media/New Materials: Highlights in Contemporary Art from the Fabric Workshop Museum,’ Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio – USA
: The Travelling Gallery, Edinburgh – UK
: Shahzia Sikander, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney – AUS (solo)
: ‘Not For Sale,’ PS1, Long Island City, New York – USA
: ‘Cosmologies,’ James Cohen Gallery, New York – USA
: Global Feminisms, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Contemporary Art at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley - USA
: ‘Take 2: Women Revisiting Art History,’ SFMoMA, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland – USA
: ‘Shahzia Sikander, Kara Walker,’ Fundacion ICO, Madrid – ES
: Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia – USA (solo)
: Shahzia Sikander, Taipei Biennial (solo)
: "Shahzia Sikander: New Work," Sikkema Jenkins & Co. New York – USA (solo)
: Valentina Bonomo Arte Contemporanea, Rome – IT (solo)
: ‘Nuevos Misticos/New Mystics’ Instituto Cabrera Pinto, La Laguna. Tenerife- ES
: ‘Shahzia Sikander,’The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia – USA
: ‘Without Boundary: Seventeen ways of Looking,’ Museum of Modern Art, New York – USA
: Domains of Wonder: Masterworks of Indian painting,’ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – USA
2006: Dirty Yoga: 2006 Taipei Biennial," Taipei, Taiwan
: ‘SpiNN,’ Video Venice section of the Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Adelaide – AUS
: Miami Art Museum, Miami – USA (solo)
: ‘51 Ways of Looking,’ Brent Sikkema New York – USA (solo)
: Zeitsprunge Raumfolgen, IFA: Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen, Berlin – DE
: Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now, The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York – USA
: ‘Dissonance to Detour,’ Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles – USA (solo)
: New Work/ New Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York – USA
: ‘Always a little further,’ Curated by Rosa Martinez, 51st International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice – IT
2005: ‘Translation’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris – FR
: ‘Drawing Narrative,’ College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster – USA
2004: Shahzia Sikander: Nemesis, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York – USA (solo)
: Shahzia Sikander: Flip Flop, The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego – USA (solo)
: ‘Contemporary Links: Shahzia Sikander.’ The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego – USA (solo)
: The Print Show, Exit Art, New York – USA
: First International Biennial of Contemporary Art-The joy of my dreams, Charterhouse of Santa Maria de las Cuevas, Seville – ES
: Through Master's Eyes, LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles – USA
: Watercolor Worlds, Dorsky Gallery, New York – USA
: Along the X-Axis: Video Art from India and Pakistan, Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi, India
: Beyond East and West, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois; Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts – USA
: SpiNN, Brent Sikkema, New York – USA (solo)
: Drawing the World: Masters to Hipsters, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia – CN
: Drawing to Drawing, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco – USA (solo)
2003: Poetic Justice, Eighth International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
: Aliens in America: Others in the USA, Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire
2002: AOP 2002: The 37th Art on Paper Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina – USA
: Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, Museum of Modern Art, Queens, New York – USA
: Time/Frame, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin – USA
: Urgent Painting, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, Paris – FR
: New Works: 01.1 Rivane Neuenschwander, Shahzia Sikander, Tony Villejo, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas – USA
: Expanding Tradition: Contemporary Works Influenced by Indian Miniatures, Deutsche Back Lobby Gallery, New York – USA
: Threads of Vision: Toward a New Feminine Poetics, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio – USA
: New Artists, Recent Works, Rhotas Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan
: ARS 01, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
: ‘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 – USA
2001: Intimacy, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas – USA (solo)
: Elusive Paradise: The Millennium Prize, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa – CN
: Acts of Balance, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York – USA (solo)
: Drawing on the Figure: Works on paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago – USA
: Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, New York - USA
2000: Projects 70, Museum of Modern Art, New York - USA
: 00, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York – USA
1999: Directions: Shahzia Sikander, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C – USA (solo)
1998: Shahzia Sikander, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago – USA (solo)
: Shahzia Sikander: Drawings and Miniatures, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, Missouri – USA (solo)
1997: Murals and Miniatures, Deitch Projects, New York – USA (solo)
: A Kind of Slight and Pleasing Dislocation, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco – USA (solo)
: Art Celebration 96: Shahzia Sikander, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston – USA (solo)
1996: Knock Knock Who's There? Mithilia, Mithilia Who? Project Row Houses, Houston – USA (solo)
1993: Pakistan Embassy, Washington DC – USA (solo)

Public Collections

: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
: Museum of Modern Art, New York
: Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
: National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
: Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
: Pinault Collection, Venice, Italy
: Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Rhode Island
: Royal Ontario Museum, Canada
: San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
: The Sharjah Art Foundation Collection, UAE
: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and Abu Dhabi
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
: MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy
: Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, Texas
: Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California
: The Birmingham Museum, United Kingdom
: Bradford City Museum, United Kingdom
: Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, United Kingdom
: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
: The Burger Collection Hong Kong, China
: Centro Nazionale per le Arti Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
: Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
: Devi Art Foundation, India
: Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
: HALL St. Helena Art Collection, Helena, California
: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Park, Washington, D.C.
: Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
: Kadist Art Foundation, France
: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi, India
: Deutsche Bank, Germany
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Literature

2009: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Shahzia Sikander Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection. Brochure. New York: 2009
: Sikander, Shahzia. (Introduction) “Provenance the invisible hand.” Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Shahzia Sikander Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection. Brochure. New York: 2009
: Stiles, Kristine, and Selz, Peter. (Editors) Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, University of California Press, 2009. ISBN 9780520202535
2008: Shpungin, Diana. “Delicatessen.” (Exhibition Brochure) University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL: Nov. 9, 2007 – Jan. 26, 2008
: CORE: Artists and Critics in Residence, c. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 2008 ISBN: 978-0-89090-162-5 p. 112
: Daftari, Fereshteh, Interview with Shahzia Sikander, “Intimate Ambivalence.” IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK: July 30 – Sep. 14 2008. “Interstitial: 24 Faces and the 25thFrame.” daadgalerie, Berlin, Germany: Oct. 25 – Dec. 6, 2008. ISBN: 978-1-904864-43-1
: Guglielmino, Giorgio. How to Look at Contemporary Art (…and like it) 66works from 1970 to 2008.” Umberto Allemandi & Co Publishing, 2008, ISBN-978-88-422-1644-5
: Heartney, Eleanor. “Art & Today,” Phaidon press 2008 ISBN: 9780714845142
: Juncosa, Enrique. ‘Order. Desire. Light. : An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawings,’ c. IMMA Dublin 2008 ISBN: 9781-903811-90-0 (Exhibition Catalogue)
: Sarah Kent, “Demons, Yarns & Tales.” The Dairy, London, UK: Nov. 10-22, 2008; The Loft, Miami, FL: Dec. 3-6, 2008. (Exhibition Catalogue)
: Weinberg, Adam. Momin, Shamim M. ‘Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria: 25 Years’ c. Whitney Museum of American Art 2008 ISBN 978-0-300-13933-4
: Reilly, Maura and Nochlin, Linda, “Global Feminisms,” c. Merrell Publishers Ltd. 2007 in association with the Brooklyn Museum (Exhibition Catalogue) ISBN: 978-1-8589-4390-9
: Paparoni, Demetrio and Mercurio, Gianni. “Timer 01/Intimacy,” Triennale Bosvisa, Milan, Italy. (Exhibition Catalogue). C. Fondazione La Triennale di Milano 2007, Skia Editore, Milano 2007
: MoMA Highlight since 1980, Museum of Modern Art, New York, D.A.P. 2007, ISBN-978-0-87070-713-1
: Kissane Sean, (Essay), ‘Shahzia Sikander, Irish Museum of Modern Art’, 28 March-7 May 2007, c. Charta press, ISBN: 8881586428 pp. 27-32
: “Don’t Look: Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna’s Collection (Martina Yamin, class of 1958)” (Exhibition Catalogue) 2007 Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley MA
: Modern & Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007, ISBN-978-0-917046-80-3
: Bhabha, K. Homi, (Exhibition Catalogue Essay) ‘Beginning Again’, ‘Shahzia Sikander, Irish Museum of Modern Art’, 28 March-7 May, 2007, c. Charta Press, ISBN: 8881586428 pp. 35-41
: Badia, Montse, “Fantasmagoria,” Fundacion ICO, Madrid c. 2007 (Exhibition Catalogue) ISBN: 9788493468460
: Anderson, Kurt. (Interview) “Spectrum: The Lockwood Thompson Dialogues at the Cleveland Public Library,” c.2007 Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland OH ISBN: 0-9778917-1-2
2007: Yanez, Isabel, “Fantasmagoria,” Fundacion ICO, Madrid c. 2007 (Exhibition Catalogue) ISBN: 9788493468460
: Bishop, Janet. “Take 2: Women Revisiting Art History,” (Exhibition Catalogue) c. 2007 Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
2006: Blum, Kelly, and Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, ed. “Blanton Museum of Art: American Art Since 1900,” (Exhibition Catalogue) The University of Texas at Austin, 2006
2005: Dexter, Emma. “Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing” c. Phaidon Press 2005, ISBN 0714845450
: Marquardt, Janet, and Stephen Eskilson. Frames of Reference: Art History and the World. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005
: Linton, Meg. “Stockpiling and Dissemination,” Dissonance to Detour (Exhibition Catalogue) c. 2005 Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art & Design. ISBN: ISBN: 0-930209-10-9 pp.5-8
: Weiss, Rachel, (Essay) 'From Place to Place', "As Long As it Lasts" Published by the Renaissance Society, 2004, ISBN 9-41548-47-3
: Wye, Deborah "Artists and Prints in Context", Artists and Prints, Masterworks from The Museum of Modern Art, Published by MOMA, C-2004, ISBN 0-87070-125-8
: Szeemann, Harald, "The Joy Of My Dreams" (Exhibition Catalogue) First International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain, Oct 3-Dec5, 2004, ISBN 84-609-2370-3
: O’Brian, David and Prochaska, David. “Beyond East and West: Seven Transnational Artists” (Exhibition Catalogue) Champaign, Illinois: Krannert Museum of Art, 2004
: Naef, Silvia, "L'Islam en Debats,” c. Teraedre, Paris, France, ISBN 2-91286820-3 c. 2004
: Hough, Jessica, (Exhibition Catalogue Essay) ‘Illumination’, Nemesis, c. Tang Museum and the Aldrich Museum, Jan 24- April 11, 2004, and September 19-2004 – Jan 5, 2005, ISBN: 0-97251184-3, pp.57- 69
: Hertz, Betti-Sue, "Shahzia Sikander: Flip Flop", (Exhibition Brochure) Contemporary Links 2, San Diego Museum of Art, March 27- June 27, 2004
: Hecker, Judith, Shahzia Sikander, Artists and Prints, Masterworks from The Museum of Modern Art, Published by MOMA, C-2004, ISBN 0-87070-125-8
2004: Berry, Ian, (Interview in Exhibition Catalogue) Dialogue with Shahzia Sikander, Nemesis, c. Tang Museum and the Aldrich Museum, Jan 24- April 11, 2004, and September 19-2004 – Jan 5, 2005, ISBN: 0-97251184-3, pp. 5-19
: H.H. Arnason, "History of Modern Art, 5th Edition" c. 2004 Prentice Hall, INC. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey ISBN: 0-13-184069-X, pp 750-1
: Cameron, Dan. Poetic Justice. (Exhibition Catalogue) Istanbul: Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, 2003
: Augaitis, Daina. "For the Record. Drawing Contemporary Life" Published by Vancouver Art Gallery. 2003. ISBN 1-895442-45-1
: Kim, Elaine H., Margo Machida and Sharon Mizoto. Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2003
: Heller, Nancy, G. “Women Artists” New York: Abbeville Press, 2003
: Kim, Elaine H., Margo Machida and Sharon Mizoto. Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2003
2003: Platform Year Report 2003, "Packaged Paradise" Shahzia Sikander, Biennial Exhibition, Sept 20- Nov 16, 2003. Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center. Istanbul, Turkey
2002: Antelo-Suarez, Sandra, et al. Urgent Painting. Paris: ARC, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2002. (Exhibition Catalogue)
: Brown, Kathan. "Shahzia Sikander: No Parking Anytime", (Exhibition Brochure) Crown Point Press, SanFrancisco, Spring 2002
: Contemporary Art Commissions at the Asia Society and Museum, Introduction by Vishaka Desai, Published by the Asia Society, 2002, ISBN 0-87848-091-9
: Falguieres, Patricia, 134 Views of the World, Urgent Painting, (Exhibition Catalogue) ARC, Musee d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2002
: Hashmi, Salima, Unveiling the Visible, Lives and Works of Women Artists of Pakistan, Published by Actionaid, Pakistan, 2002, ISBN 969-35-1361-4
: Hoptman, Laura. Drawing Now: Eight Propositions. (Exhibition Catalogue) New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2002
: Daftari, Fereshteh, "Projects 70", Exhibition Brochure, MOMA, NYC, Nov. 22, 2002- Mar. 13, 2001
: Sollins, Susan, et al. Art: 21, Art in the 21st Century. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001. Essay by Lynn M. Herbert. ISBN-10: 0810913976
: Nemiroff, Diana. "After Arcadia", (Exhibition Catalogue) Elusive Paradise, The Millenium Prize, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2001, ISBN 0-88884-720-3
: Reckit, Helena and Phelan, Peggy "Art and Feminism", Phaidon Press, c 2001 ISBN-10: 0714835293
: Marino, Melanie, (Essay for Exhibition Brochure) Shahzia Sikander 01.1, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX, Mar 15 – May 13, 2001
: Marcoci, Roxana, (Interview with SS), Threads of Vision: Toward a New Feminine Poetics. Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, 2001, ISBN-1-880353-19-9
: Goankar, Dilip Parameshwar, (editor) "Alternative Modernities", Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2001, ISBN 0-8223-2714-7
: Chambers, Kristin, "Loose Threads", Threads of Vision: Toward a New Feminine Poetics. Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, 2001, ISBN-1-880353-19-9
: Desai, Vishakha N. (Interview) “Conversations with Traditions: Nilima Sheikh and Shahzia Sikander,” (Exhibition Catalogue) 2001, ISBN: 0-87848-090-0
2001: Herbert, Lynn, (Essay) section on spirituality, "Sikander, Turrell, Hamilton, Feodorov", Art: 21, Art in the 21st Century, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2001
: Daftari, Fereshteh, "ARS 01", Exhibition Catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, Helsinki, 2001
: Boris, Staci. Drawing on the Figure: Works on paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection. (Exhibition Catalogue) Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000
: Fletcher, Valerie- Art worlds in dialogue, Museum Ludwig, Koln, Dumont Publishers, 2000, ISBN-3-7701-5046-5
: Kortun, Vasif. "Fresh Cream", Phaidon Press, c 2000 (ISBN:0-7148-3924-8)
2000: Singer, Debra. Shahzia Sikander: Acts of Balance. (Exhibition Brochure) New York: Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, 2000
: Krug, Margaret. “An Artist’s Handbook: Materials and Techniques,” c. Laurence King Publishing 2007. ISBN: 1-85669-523-9
: Phillips, Lisa. The American Century: Art and Culture, 1950-2000. (Exhibition Catalogue) New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1999
: Farris Phoebe, "Women Artists of Color", A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas, Greenwood Press, 1999. ISBN-0-313-30374-6
: Devji, Faisal. “Translated Pleasures.” Shahzia Sikander (Exhibition Catalogue) 1999 The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, ISBN: 0-941548-42-2
: Carlozzi, Annette DiMeo. Negotiating Small Truths. (Exhibition Catalogue) Austin, Texas: Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas, 1999
: Yeon Kim, Yu, "Fragmented Stories", Five Continents and One City-International Salon of Painting, (Exhibition Catalogue) Mexico City, Mexico, 1999
: Gregos, Katerina. Global Vision: New Art from the 90s, Part II. (Exhibition Catalogue) Athens: Deste Foundation, Center for Contemporary Art, 1999
: Friis-Hansen, Dana. Beyond the Future: the Third Asia-Pacific Triennial. (Exhibition Catalogue) Brisbane, Australia: Queensland Art Gallery, 1999
1999: Fletcher, Valerie. (Exhibition Brochure) Shahzia Sikander. Washington DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1999
: Bhabha, Homi. “Chillava Klatch: Shahzia Sikander interviewed by Homi Bhabha.” (Exhibition Catalogue) c. 1999 The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, ISBN: 0-941548-42-2
1998: Farver, Jane. "Inside and out of India: Contemporary art of the South Asian Diaspora" 1998. Published by the Queens Museum, NY
: Self, Dana. “Shahzia Sikander: Drawings and Miniatures” (Exhibition Brochure) Kansas City, Missouri: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998
: Watkin, Mel, On the Wall: Selections from The Drawing Center. (Exhibition Catalogue) St. Louis: Forum for Contemporary Art, 1998
1997: Schaffner, Ingrid. Project Painting. (Exhibition Catalogue) Lehman Maupin Gallery, 1997
: Farver, Jane. Out of India: Contemporary Art of the South Asian Diaspora. (Exhibition Catalogue) New York: Queens Museum of Art, 1997
: Colpit, Frances, Core Fellows Exhibition 1997, (Exhibition Catalogue) Houston, Texas: Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, 1997
: Phillips, Lisa and Louise Neri, 1997 Biennial. (Exhibition Catalogue) New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1997
1996: Pagel, David. Core Fellows Exhibition 1996, (Exhibition Catalogue) Houston, Texas: Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, 1996
1994: Hashmi, Salima and Niva Poovaya-Smith, An Intelligent Rebellion: Women Artists of Pakistan. (Exhibition Catalogue) Bradford, England: City of Bradford Metropolitan Council, 1994
: Sirhandi, Marcella, A Selection of Contemporary Paintings from Pakistan. (Exhibition Catalogue) Pasadena, California: Pacific Asia Museum, 1994

Shahzia Sikander

(Pakistani, born 1969)

Shahzia Sikander

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