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Shahzia Sikander    (Pakistani, 1969)

 Shahzia Sikander - Afloat (Prints) h: 35 x w: 23.5 in / h: 88.9 x w: 59.7 cm
Shahzia Sikander
Afloat 2001
 
  

Biography
1969 Born in Lahore, Pakistan
1992 B.F.A., National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
1995 M.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Lives and works in New York, New York

Exhibitions
2007 “Global Feminisms,” Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Contemporary Art at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, March 23- July 1
2007 “Cosmologies,” James Cohen Gallery, NY, NY Jan 11- Feb 10
2007 “Take 2: Women Revisiting Art History,” SFMoMA, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland CA, January 17 to March 17, 2007
2007 “Fantasmagoria,” Fundacion ICO, Madrid, January 18- March 18
2007 “Not For Sale,” PS1, Long Island City, New York, February 11 - April 16, 2007
2007 The Travelling Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2007 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, March 28- May 7, 2007 (solo)_
2006 “Shahzia Sikander: New Work,” Sikkema Jenkins & Co. NY, NY. Special Exhibition May 22- May 26, 2006 (solo)
2006 “Dirty Yoga: 2006 Taipei Biennial,” Taipei, Taiwan, November 4, 2006 – February 25, 2007.
2006 “Domains of Wonder: Masterworks of Indian painting,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, September 20 – November 26.
2006 “Without Boundary: Seventeen ways of Looking,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, February 26- May 22
2006 “Shahzia Sikander”, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, April 17-June17.
2006 “SpiNN,” Video Venice section of the Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Adelaide Australia.
2006 “Nuevos Misticos/New Mystics” Instituto Cabrera Pinto, La Laguna. tenerife.
2005 Dissonance to Detour, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Always a little further, Curated by Rosa Martinez, 51st International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2005 New Work/ New Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2005 51 Ways of Looking, Brent Sikkema, New York, NY
2004 First International Biennial of Contemporary Art - The joy of my dreams, Charterhouse of Santa Maria de las Cuevas, Seville, Spain
2004 Shahzia Sikander: Nemesis, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2003 Poetic Justice, Eighth International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
2003 SpiNN, Brent Sikkema, New York, NY (Solo)
2002 - 2003 AOP 2002: The 37th Art on Paper Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
2002 - 2003 Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, MoMAQNS, New York
2002 Time/Frame Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, UT, Austin, January 25- July 14
2002 Contemporary Drawing Show MOMA, NYC, Fall (catalog)
2002 Urgent Painting Arc/Musee D'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, (catalog)
2001 Conversations with Traditions: Nilima Sheikh and Shahzia Sikander, The Asia Society, New York (traveled to Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2001 Elusive Paradise: The Millennium Prize, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
2001 Threads of Vision: Toward a New Feminine Poetics, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
2001 ARS 01, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, Helsinki (catalog)
2001 Expanding Tradition, Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery, New York NY
2001 New Works: 01.1 Rivane Neuenschwander, Shahzia Sikander, Tony Villejo, Art Pace, San Antonio, TX
2001 Intimacy, Art Pace, San Antonio, TX (catalog) (Solo)
2000 Acts of Balance, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY (catalog) (Solo)
2000 Projects 70, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2000 Drawing on the Figure: Works on paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1999 Shahzia Sikander: Directions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (catalog) (Solo)
1999 Shahzia Sikander, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MO (catalog) (Solo)
1998 Shahzia Sikander, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1998 Shahzia Sikander: Flip Flop, The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
1998 Shahzia Sikander: Drawings and Miniatures, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MO
1997 Miniatures and Murals, Deitch Projects, New York (Solo)
1996 Knock Knock Who's There? Mithilia, Mithilia Who? Artist Installation, Project Row Houses, Houston (Solo)
1993 Pakistan Embassy, Washington DC (Solo)

Literature
2007 Bishop, Janet. “Take 2: Women Revisiting Art History,” c. 2007 Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA,
2006 Blum, Kelly, and Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, ed. “Blanton Museum of Art: American Art Since 1900,” The University of Texas at Austin, 2006.
2005 Azimi, Negar. “Interview- Shahzia Sikander” Bidoun, 1, no. 3 (Winter 2005), pp. 104-108
2003 Augaitis, Daina. "For the Record. Drawing Contemporary Life" Published by Vancouver Art Gallery. 2003. ISBN 1-895442-45-1
2003 Cameron, Dan. Poetic Justice. Exhibition catalogue. Istanbul: Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, 2003.
2002 Antelo-Suarez, Sandra, et al. Urgent Painting. Paris: ARC, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2002.
2002 Brown, Kathan. "Shahzia Sikander: No Parking Anytime", Exhibition Brochure, Crown Point Press, SanFrancisco, Spring 2002
2001 Anderson, Maxwell, (introduction) "American Visionaries: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art" Harry n. Abrams, Inc., NYC, c. 2001 ISBN 0-8109-6831-2
2000 Boris, Staci. Drawing on the Figure: Works on paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection. Exhibition catalogue. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000.
1999 Carlozzi, Annette DiMeo. Negotiating Small Truths. Exhibition catalogue. Austin, Texas: Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas, 1999.
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