70. SHAZIA
SIKANDER
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Prolonged
Exposure to Agitation
Ink and gouache on prepared paper (each drawing 30,48 x 40,64 inches, unframed) Series of 20 drawing, 2009 |
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Maligned
Monsters
Ink and gouache on paper, 317,5 x 12,7 cm, 1999-2000 |
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Mirrat
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Vegetable color, dry pigment, watercolor, gold-leaf, tea on hand-prepared paper, 723,9x 530,86 cm, 1989-90 |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1969 in Lahore, Pakistan.
Nowadays:
Shahzia Sikander lives and works in multiple locations across
the US, Europe, and Asia.
Education:
She
received her BFA in 1991 from the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1995. Her process-based
work is concerned with examining the forces at stake in contested cultural and
political histories.
Themes and style:
Sikander's
pioneering practice takes Indo-Persian miniature painting as a point of
departure. She challenges the strict formal tropes of miniature painting as
well as its medium-based restrictions by experimenting with scale and media.
Her work
helped launch a major resurgence in the Miniature Painting department in the
Nineties at the National College of Arts in Lahore, inspiring many others to
examine the miniature tradition.
Techniques:
She uses
different type of media including animation, video, mural, and collaborations
with other artists.
Selected
Solo Exhibitions
Rohtas
Gallery, Islamabad 1992; Pakistan Embassy, Washington DC 1992; Project Row
Houses, Houston1996; Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston 1996; Glassell at the
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston 1996 and 1997; The Drawing Center, New
York 1997; Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco 1997; Deitch Projects, New York 1998;
The Renaissance Society, Chicago 1998; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
and Design, Kansas City 1998-99; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Washington DC 1999; The Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New
York 2000; Art Pace, San Antonio 2001; Asia Society, New York 2001-02;
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont 2002; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
2003; Sikkema Jenkins and Co., New York 2003; Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
2003-04; San Diego Art Museum, San Diego 2004; Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs
2004; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield 2004-05; Otis College of Art
and Design, Los Angeles 2005; Sikkema Jenkins and Co., New York 2005; Miami Art
Museum, Miami 2005-06; Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia 2006; Valentina
Bonomo, Roma, Italy 2006; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 2007; Museum of
Contemporary Art, Sydney 2007-08; IKON Gallery, Birmingham 2008; Daadgalerie,
Berlin 2008; Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York 2009; Sikkema
Jenkins and Co., New York 2009; Pilar Corrias Gallery, London 2009; Parasite,
Hong Kong 2009; Valentina Bonomo, Roma, Italy 2010; San Francisco Art Institute
2010; Massachusetts College of Art, Boston 2011; Sikkema Jenkins and Co., New
York 2011; Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio 2012-13; Kogod Courtyard at the
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, 2012; Douglas Library,
Institute for Women and Art, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
2012; Pilar Corrias Gallery, London 2013; Bildmuseet Umea University, Sweden
2014; Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, Satatoga Springs, New York
2015; Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain 2015.
Significant
Group Exhibitions
“A
Selection of Contemporary Paintings from Pakistan,” Pacific Asia Museum,
Pasadena, California 1994; “An Intelligent Rebellion, Women Artists of
Pakistan,” Cartwright Hall, Lister Park, Bradford, England 1996; “Out of India:
Contemporary Art of the South Asian Diaspora,” Queens Museum of Art 1997;
“Three Great Walls,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco 1997; “On
the Wall: Shahzia Sikander, William Kentridge, Barry McGee, Margaret
Kilgallen”, Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri 1998; “On
Liberating Tradition: Byron Kim, Yinka Shonibare and Shahzia Sikander”, Center
for Curatorial Studies, Bard College 1998; “Global Vision: New Art from the
90s, Part II,” Deste Foundation, Center for Contemporary Art, Athens1998; “Pop
Surrealism,” Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut 1998; “I
Love New York,” Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany 1998-99; “Cinco continentes y
una ciudad: Salón internacional de pintura,” Museo de la Ciudad de México,
Mexico City 1998-99; “Negotiating Small Truths,” Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art,
University of Texas at Austin1999; “The American Century: Art & Culture
1900-2000, Part II, 1950-2000,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 2000;
“00”, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York 2000; “Art-Worlds in Dialogue,”
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany 1999-2000; “Greater New York,” P.S.1
Contemporary Art Center, Queens, New York 2000; “Drawing on the Figure: Works
on paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection,” Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago 2000; “Projects 70,” Museum of Modern Art, New York 2000-01; “Expanding
Tradition: Contemporary Works Influenced by Indian Miniatures,” Deutsche Back
Lobby Gallery, New York 2001; “New Works: 01.1 Rivane Neuenschwander, Shahzia
Sikander, Tony Villejo,” ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas 2001; “Threads of Vision:
Toward a New Feminine Poetics,” Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art,
Cleveland, Ohio 2001; “Elusive Paradise: The Millennium Prize,” National Gallery
of Canada, Ottawa 2001; “ARS 01, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art,” Helsinki
2001-02; “Urgent Painting,” Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, Paris
2002; “Time/Frame”, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at
Austin, Texas 2002; “Drawing Now: Eight Propositions,” Museum of Modern Art,
Queens, New York 2002; “AOP 2002: The 37th Art on Paper Exhibition,”
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina 2002-03; “Drawing the
World: Masters to Hipsters,” Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
2003; “Aliens in America: Others in the USA,” Phillips Exeter Academy, New
Hampshire 2003; “Beyond East and West,” Krannert Art Museum, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 2004, exhibition traveled to
Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 2004 and Hood
Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 2004 and Williams
College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts 2005; “Along the X-Axis:
Video Art from India and Pakistan,” Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi 2004;
“Anywhere but here”, Seven artists Permanent Commissions for Barts 2004;
“Through Master’s Eyes,” LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles 2004; “The Print
Show,” Exit Art, New York 2004; “Translation”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2005;
“Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now,” The Queens Museum of Art, Queens
2005; “New Work/New Acquisitions,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York 2005;
“Drawing Narrative”, College of Wooster Art Museum, Ohio 2005; “The Quiet in The
Land,” National Museum, Luang Prabang, Laos 2006-07; “JaGGy-edge,” The
Traveling Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland 2006; “Nuevos Misticos/New Mystics,”
Instituto Cabrera Pinto, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain 2006; “Video Venice”
at the Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Adelaide, Australia 2006; “Without
Boundary: Seventeen ways of Looking,” Museum of Modern Art, New York 2006;
“Domains of Wonder: Masterworks of Indian painting,” Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston 2006; “Fantasmagoria, Dibujo en movimiento” Fundacion ICO, Madrid, Spain
2007; “Not For Sale”, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City 2007;
“Cosmologies,” James Cohen Gallery, New York 2007; “Timer: Intimità/Intimacy,”
Triennale Bovisa, Milan 2007; “Take 2: Women Revisiting Art History”, Mills
College Art Museum, Oakland 2007; “Global Feminisms”, Elizabeth A. Sackler
Center for Contemporary Art at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn 2007 and
exhibition traveled to Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College,
Wellesley 2007; “Hammer Contemporary Collection Part II”, The Hammer Museum at
UCLA, Los Angeles 2007; “In Wonderland”, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art,
Scottsdale 2007; “New Media/New Materials: Highlights in Contemporary Art from
the Fabric Workshop Museum,” Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 2007;
“Delicatessen,” University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
2007-08; “Demons, Yarns & Tales”, The Dairy, London 2008 and exhibition
traveled to The Loft, Miami 2008; “Perverted by Theater,” Apexart, New York
2008; “The Big Bang,” Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, Italy 2008; “Order. Desire.
Light: An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing,” Irish Museum of Modern Art,
Dublin 2008; “Something About Mary”, Gallery Met, New York 2009; “Compass in
Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings
Collection”, Museum of Modern Art, New York 2009 and exhibition traveled to the
Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencià, Spain 2010-11; “Significant and
Insignificant Events,” Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey 2009; “A Decade of
Contemporary American Printmaking: 1999-2009,” Tsinghua University and Today
Art Museum, Beijing, China 2009; “Taswir: Pictorial Mappings of Islam of
Modernity”, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2009-10; “Moving Perspectives: Shahzia
Sikander and Sun Xun,” Sackler Gallery, The Smithsonian, Washington DC 2009;
“Its fine as long as you draw but don’t film,” Pilar Corrias Gallery, London
2009 “One Image May Hide Another: Arcimboldo-Dali-Raetz,” Galeries Nationals du
Grand Palais, Paris 2009; “By Day, By Night, some (special) things a museum can
do,” Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China 2010; “Video Art: Replay : Part 2:
Everyday Imaginary,” Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of
Philadelphia, 2010; “Transformation”, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo 2010;
“Space, From MAXXI’s collections of art and architecture”, MAXXI National
Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome 2010-11; “Monumental ‘Miniatures’: Large-scale
Paintings from India,” Philadelphia Museum of Art 2010; “Power of Doubt,” Curated
by Hou Hanru, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China 2011; “Patria o
Libertad! On Patriotism, Immigration and Populism,” Museum of Contemporary
Canadian Art, Toronto 2011; “Future Pass: From Asia to the World, 54th Venice
Biennale”, Abbazia di San Gregorio, Venice, Italy 2011; “Gifts of the Sultan:
The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles 2011 and exhibition traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2011-12 and Islamic Art Museum, Doha, Qatar 2012; “Women In- Between: Asian
Women Artists 1984-2012,” Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka 2012; The Annual
2012, National Academy Museum, New York 2012; “The Collectors Show”, Singapore
Art Museum, Singapore 2013; "Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in
Modern Art," Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, 2013;
"Marking Language," Drawing Room, London, 2013; “Doris Duke’s Shangri
La: Architecture, Landscape and Islamic Art”, Museum of Art and Design, New
York 2012-13 and exhibition is traveling to the Norton Museum of Art in West
Palm Beach 2013, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University 2013-14, University of
Michigan Museum of Art 2014, Nevada Museum of Art 2014, Honolulu Museum of Art
2015; "Echoes: Islamic Art & Contemporary Artists," Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art, Kansas City, 2013-2014; Dhaka Art Summit 2014; "Still
Moves," ArtC Phoenix Market City, Chennai, 2014; Yebisu International
Festival for Art and Architecture, Tokyo Metropolitan, 2014; "Infinite
Challenge," National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea,
2014; Perez Art Museum, Miami, 2014; "Past Traditions" curated by
Diana Campbell Betancourt at Exhibit 320,New Delhi, 2014; "Past
Traditions/New Voices in Asian Art" at the Hofstra University Museum,
2014; "Hare & Hound Press + artpace: the Art of Collaboration,"
at Artpace, 2015; "Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s" curated by
Alexandra Schwartz at Monclair Art Museum, New Jersey, 2015.
Selected
Large Scale International Exhibitions and Biennials
The 13th
Istanbul Biennial “Mom, Am I Barbarian?” curated by Fulya Erdemci, Istanbul,
Turkey, 2013; The 5th Auckland Triennial, “If you were to live here”, curated
by Hou Hanru, Auckland, New Zealand, 2013; The Sharjah Biennal 11, “Re:emerge,
Towards a New Cultural Cartography”, curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Sharjah, UAE,
2013; 2nd Mardin Biennial, “Double Take”, curated by Paolo Colombo and Lora
Sarıaslan, Mardin, Turkey, 2012; 2nd Animamix Biennial, “Visual Attract and
Attack”, curated by Victoria Lu, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2009-2010; The 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka, Japan, 2009; ev+ a
2008, “Open / Invited Too Early for Vacation,” curated by Hou Hanru Limerick,
Ireland, 2008; International Triennale of Contemporary Art, “Future Perfect,”
Veletrzni Palace, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic, 2008; : “Timer: Intimità/Intimacy,”
Triennale Bovisa, Milan, Italy 2007; The Taipei Biennial, Dirty Yoga, curated
by Dan Cameron and Jun-Jieh Wang, Taipei, Taiwan, 2006; The 51st International
Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, “Always a little further”, Curated by
Rosa Martinez, Venice, Italy, 2005; 1st Edition of the Seville International
Biennial of Contemporary Art, (BIACS 1) “The joy of my dreams”, curated by
Harald Szeemann, Charterhouse of Santa Maria de las Cuevas, Seville, Spain,
2004; 8th International Istanbul Biennial, “Poetic Justice”, curated by Dan
Cameron, Istanbul, Turkey, 2003; ARS 01, “Unfolding Perspectives”, Kiasma,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, 2001-02; Elusive Paradise: The
Millennium Prize, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 2001; Greater New
York, MoMA/P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, New York, 2000; The Third
Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, (APT 3) “Beyond the Future”,
curated by Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, 1999-2000; Cinco
Continentes y una Ciudad (Five Continents and a City), section curated by Yu
Yeon Kim, international painting-exhibition in Mexico-City, 1998-99; “Global
Vision: New Art from the 90s, Part II,” Deste Foundation, Center for
Contemporary Art, Athens,1998-99; 7th Bienal Internacional de Escultura E
Desenho das Caldas de Rainha Bienal, Portugal, 1997; “The Whitney Biennial
Exhibition,” curated by Lisa Phillips Louise Neri, The Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, 1997.
Public
Collections
The
Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Park, the
Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, San Diego Art
Museum, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the
Kadist Art Foundation, the Pinault Collection, the Devi Art Foundation,
Deutsche Bank Germany, Bristol’s City Museum and Art Gallery, Detroit Institute
of Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art Los
Angeles, Deste Foundation, The UCLA Hammer Museum, Royal Ontario Museum, the
RISD Museum of Art, The Walker Art Center, Centro Nazionale per le Arti
Contemporanea Rome, Princeton University Art Museum, Newark Museum, Bradford
City Museum, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Linda Pace Foundation, Jack S.
Blanton Museum of Art Austin, Fukuoka Art Museum, the Birmingham Museum, the
Burger Collection Hong Kong, MAXXI Museum Rome, and The Metropolitan Museum of
Art.
Awards
Sikander
has been the recipient of numerous awards, grants and fellowships, including
the Asia Society Award for Significant Contribution to Contemporary Art (2015);
Art Prize in Time-Based Art from Grand Rapids Museum (2014), the Inaugural
Medal of Art by the US Secretary of State, Hilary Rodham Clinton (2012), John
D. and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation Achievement ‘Genius’ award,
(2006-2011); SCMP Art Futures Award, Hong Kong International Art Fair (2010),
Academician of the National Academy Museum (2010), The Inaugural Rockefeller
Foundation Bellagio Center Creative Arts Fellowship, Italy (2009), The DAAD,
(Berliner Künstlerprogramm, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Berlin
(2007-08), Performing and Visual Arts Achiever of the Year Award presented by
the South Asian Excellence Awards, New York City (2008), Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, the
National Pride of Honor by the Pakistani Government (2005), Jenifer Howard
Coleman Award, Otis College of Art, Los Angeles (2005), Commendation Award,
Mayor’s Office, City of New York (2003), South Asian Women’s Creative Collective
Achievement Award (1999), the Joan Mitchell Award (1998-99), the Louis Comfort
Tiffany Foundation Award (1997), The Core Fellowship Award, Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston, Texas (1995-97), Graduate Fellowship Award, Rhode Island School
of Design (1993-95), Shakir Ali Award-Highest Award of Merit, National College
of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan (1992) and the Haji Sharif Award-Excellence in
Miniature Painting, Lahore, Pakistan (1992)
In 2004,
Newsweek listed Sikander as one of the most important South Asians transforming
the American cultural landscape. In 2006, the World Economic Forum, Davos,
Switzerland appointed Sikander as a Young Global Leader. In 2010, Sikander was
elected a National Academician by the National Academy in New York City.
Sikander is currently serving on the Master Jury 2013 for the Aga Khan Award
for Architecture. She is a member of the Asian Art Council at the Guggenheim
Museum, New York, and has also served on the artist advisory team for the
Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. She is also a member of the board of trustees of
Art21, the non-profit organization that produces Art in the Twenty-First
Century documentaries.
In her own words:
“For me, I always feel that I'm not sure
what's going to happen next year, or what's going to happen the year after or
what's in the future. So I really kind of just focus on the project at hand and
try to do the best that I can. And that, for me, is as much as I can control.
Because I have seen there are many artists who are very, very talented and
brilliant, who don't necessarily get the recognition or who [aren’t]
necessarily able to support themselves through their work. It's unlike other
professions, which with age or with more experience there's more strengthening.
It's a very different system and that, I think, fundamentally makes me feel
that I can't control it. So what I can control is the work that I make. And as
far as that is concerned, I try to develop it as fully as I can before I put it
out in public.”
Representative
Galleries:
Pilar Corrias
For
more Information:
http://artgallery.tufts.edu/exhibitions/2015/parallax.htm