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Shahzia Sikander Biography
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1969 |
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Born in Lahore, Pakistan
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1992 |
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B.F.A., National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
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1995 |
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M.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
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Lives and works in New York, New York
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2007
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“Global Feminisms,” Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Contemporary Art at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, March 23- July 1
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2007
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“Cosmologies,” James Cohen Gallery, NY, NY Jan 11- Feb 10
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2007
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“Take 2: Women Revisiting Art History,” SFMoMA, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland CA, January 17 to March 17, 2007
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2007
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“Fantasmagoria,” Fundacion ICO, Madrid, January 18- March 18
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2007
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“Not For Sale,” PS1, Long Island City, New York, February 11 - April 16, 2007
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2007
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The Travelling Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
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2007
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Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, March 28- May 7, 2007 (solo)_
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2006
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“Shahzia Sikander: New Work,” Sikkema Jenkins & Co. NY, NY. Special Exhibition May 22- May 26, 2006 (solo)
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2006
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“Dirty Yoga: 2006 Taipei Biennial,” Taipei, Taiwan, November 4, 2006 – February 25, 2007.
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2006
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“Domains of Wonder: Masterworks of Indian painting,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, September 20 – November 26.
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2006
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“Without Boundary: Seventeen ways of Looking,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, February 26- May 22
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2006
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“Shahzia Sikander”, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, April 17-June17.
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2006
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“SpiNN,” Video Venice section of the Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Adelaide Australia.
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2006
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“Nuevos Misticos/New Mystics” Instituto Cabrera Pinto, La Laguna. tenerife.
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2005
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Dissonance to Detour, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
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2005
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Always a little further, Curated by Rosa Martinez, 51st International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
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2005
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New Work/ New Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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2005
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51 Ways of Looking, Brent Sikkema, New York, NY
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2004
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First International Biennial of Contemporary Art - The joy of my dreams, Charterhouse of Santa Maria de las Cuevas, Seville, Spain
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2004
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Shahzia Sikander: Nemesis, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
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2003
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Poetic Justice, Eighth International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
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2003
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SpiNN, Brent Sikkema, New York, NY (Solo)
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2002 - 2003
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AOP 2002: The 37th Art on Paper Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
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2002 - 2003
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Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, MoMAQNS, New York
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2002
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Time/Frame Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, UT, Austin, January 25- July 14
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2002
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Contemporary Drawing Show MOMA, NYC, Fall (catalog)
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2002
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Urgent Painting Arc/Musee D'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, (catalog)
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2001
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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
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2001
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Elusive Paradise: The Millennium Prize, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
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2001
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Threads of Vision: Toward a New Feminine Poetics, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
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2001
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ARS 01, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, Helsinki (catalog)
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2001
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Expanding Tradition, Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery, New York NY
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2001
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New Works: 01.1 Rivane Neuenschwander, Shahzia Sikander, Tony Villejo, Art Pace, San Antonio, TX
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2001
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Intimacy, Art Pace, San Antonio, TX (catalog) (Solo)
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2000
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Acts of Balance, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY (catalog) (Solo)
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2000
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Projects 70, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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2000
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Drawing on the Figure: Works on paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
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1999
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Shahzia Sikander: Directions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (catalog) (Solo)
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1999
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Shahzia Sikander, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MO (catalog) (Solo)
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1998
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Shahzia Sikander, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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1998
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Shahzia Sikander: Flip Flop, The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
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1998
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Shahzia Sikander: Drawings and Miniatures, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MO
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1997
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Miniatures and Murals, Deitch Projects, New York (Solo)
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1996
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Knock Knock Who's There? Mithilia, Mithilia Who? Artist Installation, Project Row Houses, Houston (Solo)
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1993
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Pakistan Embassy, Washington DC (Solo)
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| Literature |
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2007
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Bishop, Janet. “Take 2: Women Revisiting Art History,” c. 2007 Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA,
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2006
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Blum, Kelly, and Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, ed. “Blanton Museum of Art: American Art Since 1900,” The University of Texas at Austin, 2006.
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2005
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Azimi, Negar. “Interview- Shahzia Sikander” Bidoun, 1, no. 3 (Winter 2005), pp. 104-108
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2003
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Augaitis, Daina. "For the Record. Drawing Contemporary Life" Published by Vancouver Art Gallery. 2003. ISBN 1-895442-45-1
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2003
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Cameron, Dan. Poetic Justice. Exhibition catalogue. Istanbul: Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, 2003.
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2002
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Antelo-Suarez, Sandra, et al. Urgent Painting. Paris: ARC, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2002.
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2002
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Brown, Kathan. "Shahzia Sikander: No Parking Anytime", Exhibition Brochure, Crown Point Press, SanFrancisco, Spring 2002
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2001
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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
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2000
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Boris, Staci. Drawing on the Figure: Works on paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection. Exhibition catalogue. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000.
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1999
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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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| Links to further information |
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