Shahzia Sikander

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Welcome Edition #10 by Shahzia Sikander is available now.

Shazia Sikander

Shahzia Sikander (b. 1969, Lahore, Pakistan) is widely recognized for transforming the traditions of Indo-Persian miniature painting into a contemporary practice that spans drawing, animation, mosaic, glass, and sculpture. Her work launched what is now known as the neo-miniature movement.

She received her BFA from the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan, where she became the first woman to teach in the Miniature Painting Department, and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Sikander is a MacArthur Fellow (2006) and the recipient of the U.S. State Department Medal of Art (2012) and the Pollock Prize for Creativity (2023), among other awards. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the National Gallery of Art, among others. Her bronze sculpture NOW (2023) is installed on the rooftop of the Appellate Division Courthouse in Manhattan, the first female figure placed among the building’s nine historical male lawmakers.

In 2024, her career survey Collective Behavior debuted at the Venice Biennale before traveling to the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art, and most recently to the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford.