BIOGRAPHY
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| SHAHZIA SIKANDER | |
| 1969 | Born in Lahore, Pakistan |
| Lives and works in New York City and Pakistan | |
| Training | |
| 1995 | M.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island |
| 1992 | B.F.A., National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan |
| Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2010 | Transformations, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo -JP |
| 2009 | I am also not my own enemy, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London - UK |
| Shahzia Sikander Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. New York – USA | |
| Stalemate. Sikkema Jenkins & Co. New York – USA | |
| 2008 | Intimate Ambivalence, IKON Gallery, Birmingham – UK |
| 2007 | Shahzia Sikander, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney – AUS |
| Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin – IR | |
| 2006 | Valentina Bonomo Arte Contemporanea, Rome – IT |
| Shahzia Sikander, Taipei Biennial | |
| Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia – USA | |
| Shahzia Sikander: New Work, Sikkema Jenkins & Co. New York – USA | |
| 2005 | 51 Ways of Looking, Brent Sikkema New York – USA |
| Dissonance to Detour, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles – USA | |
| Miami Art Museum, Miami – USA | |
| 2004 | Shahzia Sikander: Nemesis, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York – USA |
| Shahzia Sikander: Flip Flop, The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego – USA | |
| Contemporary Links: Shahzia Sikander, The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego – USA | |
| 2003 | Drawing to Drawing, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco – USA |
| SpiNN, Brent Sikkema, New York – USA | |
| 2001 | Intimacy, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas – USA |
| 2000 | Acts of Balance, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York – USA |
| 1999 | Directions: Shahzia Sikander, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C – USA |
| 1998 | Shahzia Sikander, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago – USA |
| Shahzia Sikander: Drawings and Miniatures, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, Missouri – USA | |
| 1997 | Murals and Miniatures, Deitch Projects, New York – USA |
| A Kind of Slight and Pleasing Dislocation, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco – USA | |
| 1996 | Knock Knock Who's There? Mithilia, Mithilia Who? Project Row Houses, Houston – USA |
| Art Celebration 96: Shahzia Sikander, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston – USA | |
| 1993 | Pakistan Embassy, Washington DC – USA |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 2011 | East Ex East, Brand New Gallery Milan, Italy |
| 2010 | 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 | |
| 2009 | Taswir: Pictorial Mappings of Islan of Modernity, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin – DE |
| Something About Mary, Gallery Met, New York - USA | |
| The 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka – JP | |
| Moving Perspectives: Shahzia Sikander and Sun Xun, Sackler Gallery, The Smithsonian,Washington DC – USA | |
| Significant and Insignificant Events, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul –TK | |
| It’s fine as long as you draw but don’t film, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London – UK | |
| A Decade of Contemporary American Printmaking: 1999-2009, Tsinghua University, Beijing – CN | |
| Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York - USA | |
| 2008 | Order. Desire. Light. : An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawings, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin – IR |
| The Big Bang, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome – IT | |
| ev+a 2008 too early for vacation, Limerick – IR | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 2006 | Dirty Yoga: 2006 Taipei Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Domains of Wonder: Masterworks of Indian painting, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – USA | |
| Without Boundary: Seventeen ways of Looking, Museum of Modern Art, New York – USA | |
| Shahzia Sikander. The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia – USA | |
| SpiNN, Video Venice section of the Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Adelaide – AUS | |
| Nuevos Misticos/New Mystics, Instituto Cabrera Pinto, La Laguna. Tenerife- ES | |
| 2005 | Translation, Palais de Tokyo, Paris – FR |
| Always a little further, Curated by Rosa Martinez, 51st International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice – IT | |
| New Work/ New Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York – USA | |
| Drawing Narrative, College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster – USA | |
| Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now, The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York – USA | |
| Zeitsprunge Raumfolgen, IFA: Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen, Berlin – DE | |
| 2004 | The Print Show, Exit Art, New York – USA |
| The joy of my dreams, First International Biennial of Contemporary Art, 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 | |
| 2003 | Poetic Justice, Eighth International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey |
| Aliens in America: Others in the USA, Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire | |
| Drawing the World: Masters to Hipsters, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia – CN | |
| 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 | |
| 2001 | Conversations with Traditions, Nilima Sheikh and Shahzia Sikande r - 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 |
| ARS 01, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki | |
| Elusive Paradise: The Millennium Prize, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa – CN | |
| Threads of Vision: Toward a New Feminine Poetics, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio – USA | |
| Expanding Tradition: Contemporary Works Influenced by Indian Miniatures, Deutsche Back Lobby Gallery, New York – USA | |
| New Works: 01.1 Rivane Neuenschwander, Shahzia Sikander, Tony Villejo, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas – USA | |
| New Artists, Recent Works, Rhotas Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan | |
| 2000 | Projects 70, Museum of Modern Art, New York - USA |
| 00, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York – USA | |
| 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 | |
| Awards | |
| 2010 | SCMP Art Futures Award, Hong Kong International Art Fair |
| 2009 | The Inaugural Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Creative Arts Fellowship |
| 2008 | Performing and Visual Arts Achiever of the Year award presented by the South Asian Excellence Awards, 2008 |
| 2007–2008 | Artist-in-residence, Daad program (Berliner Künstlerprogramm, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) |
| 2006 | Young Global leader, World Economic Forum John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, 2006 |
| 2005 | Tamgha-e-imtiaz, National Medal of Honor, Government of Pakistan Jennifer Howard Coleman Distinguished Lectureship and Residency |
| 2003 | Commendation Award, Mayor's Office, City of New York |
| 1999 | South Asian Women's Creative Collective Achievement Award |
| 1998–1999 | The Joan Mitchell Award |
| 1997 | The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award |
| 1995 - 1997 | Core Fellowship, Glassel School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
| 1993 - 1995 | Graduate Fellowship Award, Rhode Island School of Design |
| 1992 | 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 |
