Shahzia Sikander

Biography

While examining cultural and political boundaries as a space for discussion and intervention,Shahzia Sikander’s practice creates an interpretive and critical dialogue with the history and provenance of Indo-Persian miniature painting.

She has had solo exhibitions at the Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, USA (2012); San Francisco Art Institute, California, USA (2011); Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York (2009), daadgalerie, Berlin, Germany (2008); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2007); Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (2007); Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York (2000) and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, USA (1999).

Sikander’s work has appeared in numerous group presentations, at venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (2010); Museum of Modern Art, New York (multiple years); Venice Biennale(2005); Istanbul Biennial (2003) and the Whitney Biennial, New York (1997).

She received the inaugural Medal of Arts awarded by the US State Department (2012); MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, USA (2006) and the National Pride of Honor given by the Pakistani government (2005).

SAF participation:
Sharjah Biennial 11