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Biography - Shahzia Sikander

Born

1969 Lahore, Pakistan

Education

1995 M.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1992 B.F.A. National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan

Awards

2006 Macarthur Foundation Fellowship
2001 Art Pace Residency, San Antonio, TX
1999 South Asian Women’s Creative Collective Achievement Award
The Joan Mitchell Award
Tiffany Foundation Grant
Core Fellowship, Glassell School of Art, Houston
Graduate Fellowship Award, Rhode Island School of Design
Haji Sharif Award, Excellence in Miniature Painting, National College Of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
Distinction Award, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2006 “Shahzia Sikander: New Work,” Sikkema Jenkins & Co. NY, NY. Special Exhibition “Shahzia Sikander”, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2004 Shahzia Sikander: Nemesis, The Frances Young Tnag Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga springs, NY; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2003 SpiNN, Brent Sikkema, New York, NY
2001 “Intimacy” Art Pace, San Antonio, TX
The Asia Society, New York
2000 The Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York
1999 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.*
1998 The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, IL*
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, Kansas City, MO*
1997 Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Deitch Projects, New York
Yerba Buena Gardens Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1996 Artist Installation, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007 “Global Feminisms,” Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Contemporary Art at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
“Take 2: Women Revisiting Art History,” SFMoMA, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland CA
“Not For Sale,” PS1, Long Island City, New York, February 11 - April 16, 2007
2006 “Domains of Wonder: Masterworks of Indian painting,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
“Without Boundary: Seventeen ways of Looking,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2005 Dissonance to Detour, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
51 Ways of Looking, Brent Sikkema, New York, NY
New Work/ New Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Always a little further, Curated by Rosa Martinez, 51st International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2003 Poetic Justice, Eighth International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
2002-2003 Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, MoMAQNS, New York
The 37th Art on Paper Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
2002 Time/Frame, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, UT, Austin
Contemporary Drawing Show MOMA, NYC, Fall (catalog)
Urgent Painting Arc/Musee D’art Moderne de la ville Paris, Paris, (catalog)
2001 “New Work: Contemporary Figuration,” Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
“Elusive Paradise,” National Gallery Museum, Ottawa, Canada
ARS 01, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, Helsinki (catalog)
Threads of Vision: Toward a New Feminine Poetics, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
2000 “Extraordinary Realities,” Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
“Projects 70,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Greater New York,” PS1, in collaboration with MOMA, Queens, NY
“Six Degrees of Inspiration,” Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA
1999 “Piecing It Together: A Visual Journal,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
“The American Century,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York*
“Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art”, Brisbane, Australia*
“Art-Worlds in Dialogue”, Ludwig Museum, Koln, Germany*
“Negotiating Small Truths”, The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX*
“Cinco Continentes y una Ciudad,” Museo de Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico*
“New Space/New Work,” Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 “Global Vision: New Art from the ‘90’s,” Deste Foundation, Center for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece*
“On the Wall: Selections from the Drawing Center,” Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO*
“Pop Surrealism,” Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT*
“I Love New York,” Ludwig Museum, Koln, Germany*
1997 Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York*
Cladas da Rainha Biennial, Portugal
The Drawing Center, New York
“Out of India,” The Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows, NY*
Core: 1997 Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Houston Fine Arts
Museum, Houston, TX*
“Eastern Edge,” Laing Gallery, Newcastle, England
1996 Core: 1996 Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Houston Fine Arts
Museum, Houston, TX*
“An Intelligent Rebellion, Women Artists of Pakistan,” Bradford City
Museum, Bradford, England*

(* Denotes catalog)