Shahzia Sikander

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Zarina, 2018

Great Jones Alley

Shahzia Sikander (born 1969) is a Pakistani-American contemporary artist who currently resides in New York City.

Sikander is internationally recognized for her pioneering practice in which she takes Indo-Persian miniature painting as a point of departure. She experiments with both scale and media. Her broad range of works include animation, video, mural, and mosaic, often concerned with examining the forces at stake in contested cultural and political histories.

Major solo exhibitions include

  • Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao

  • Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

  • Miami Art Museum, Miami

  • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

  •  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York