SHAHZIA SIKANDER

 

Shahzia Sikander è nata nel 1969 a Lahore, in Pakistan. Le principali mostre personali dell’opera di Sikander includono: Parallax, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu (2017); Estasi come sublime, cuore come vettore, MAXXI | Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Roma (2016); Parallax, Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao (2015); Parallax, Bildmuseet Umea, Svezia (2014); Fondazione Linda Pace, San Antonio (2012-13); Kogod Courtyard presso lo Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC (2012); Transformations, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2010); Para / Site, Hong Kong (2009); Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2008); daadgalerie, Berlin (2008); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublino (2007); Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2007); Miami Art Museum, Miami (2005); Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield (2004); The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego (2004); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C (2000), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1999) e la Renaissance Society, Chicago (1998). Le principali mostre collettive includono: Karachi Biennale, Karachi (2017); Performing Time, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai (2016); Se dovessi vivere qui …, The 5th Auckland Triennial, Auckland (2013); Sharjah Biennale 11, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah (2013); Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou (2012); Donne in mezzo: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka (2012); Patria o Libertad! On Patriotism, Immigration and Populism, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto (2011); Future Pass: dall’Asia al mondo, 54a Biennale di Venezia, Venezia (2011); Gifts of the Sultan: The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts, Museo d’arte della Contea di Los Angeles, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2011); “Miniature” monumentali: dipinti su larga scala dall’India, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (2010); Un’immagine può nasconderne un’altra: Arcimboldo-Dali-Raetz, Galeries Nationals du Grand Palais, Parigi (2009); Ordine. Desiderio. Leggero. : An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawings, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublino (2008); Take 2: Women Revisiting Art History, SFMoMA, San Francisco (2007).

Sikander ha ricevuto numerosi premi, borse di studio e borse di studio, tra cui Shahneela e Farhan Faruqui Popular Choice Art Prize alla Karachi Biennale (2017), Inaugural Medal of Art, Dipartimento di Stato degli Stati Uniti (2012), John D. e Catherine T Premio MacArthur Foundation Achievement (2006-2011); il National Pride of Honor del governo pakistano (2005), il premio Joan Mitchell (1998-999) e il premio della fondazione Tiffany (1997). Nel 2006 Sikander è stato nominato Young Global Leader dal World Economic Forum.

Shahzia Sikander vive e lavora a New York.

 

MOSTRE
Personali

2017

  • Parallax, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii – US
  • Project Gallery: Shahzia Sikander, Perez Art Museum, Miami, Florida – US
  • Shahzia Sikander, Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome, Italy

2016

  • Ecstasy As Sublime, Heart As Vector, MAXXI | Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Roma – IT
  • Shahzia Sikander: Apparatus of Power, Chantal Miller Gallery, Asia Society Hong Kong Center – HK

2015

  • Midnight Moment: Gopi Contagion, Times Square Public Art, New York – US
  • Parallax, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford – US
  • Parallax, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao – ES
  • Shahzia Sikander, Tufts uNIVERSITY art Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts – US
  • Shahzia Sikander, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York – US

2014

  • Parallax, Bildmuseet, Umeå – SE
  • Parallax, Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, Texas – US
  • Parallax, Nicolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen
  • Project Gallery: Shahzia Sikander, Perez Art Museum, Miami, Florida – US

2013

  • Parallax, Pilar Corrias, London – UK

2012

  • The Last Post, Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, Texas – US
  • Kogod Courtyard at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC – US
  • Douglas Library, Institute for Women and Art, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey – US

2011

  • Shahzia Sikander: The exploding company man and other abstractions, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco – US
  • Shahzia Sikander: Sift, Rift, Drip, Shift, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York – US
  • Massachusetts College of Art, Boston – US

2010

  • Transformations, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo – JP
  • Shahzia Sikander: Prolonged Exposure to Agitation, Valentina Bonomo, Rome – IT

2009

  • Authority as Approximation, Para/Site, Hong Kong – HK
  • I am also not my own enemy, Pilar Corrias, London – UK
  • Shahzia Sikander Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. New York – US
  • Stalemate. Sikkema Jenkins & Co. New York – US

2008

  • Intimate Ambivalence, IKON Gallery, Birmingham – UK
  • Daadgalerie, Berlin – DE
    Interstitial: 24 Faces and the 25th Frame, Daadgalerie, Berlin – DE

2007

  • Shahzia Sikander, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney – AU
  • Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin – IR

2006

  • Valentina Bonomo Arte Contemporanea, Rome – IT
  • Shahzia Sikander, Taipei Biennial – TW
  • Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia – US
  • Shahzia Sikander: New Work, Sikkema Jenkins & Co. New York – US

2005

  • 51 Ways of Looking, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York – US
  • Dissonance to Detour, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles – US
  • Miami Art Museum, Miami – US

2004

  • Shahzia Sikander: Nemesis, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York – US
  • Shahzia Sikander: Flip Flop, The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego – US
  • Contemporary Links: Shahzia Sikander, The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego – US

2003

  • Seattle Art Museum, Seattle – US
  • Drawing to Drawing, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco – US
  • SpiNN, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York – US

2002

  • Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont – US

2001

  • Shahzia Sikander, Asia Society, New York – US
  • Intimacy, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas – US

2000

  • Acts of Balance, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York – US

1999

  • Directions: Shahzia Sikander, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C – US

1998

  • Shahzia Sikander, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago – US
  • Shahzia Sikander: Drawings and Miniatures, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, Missouri – US
  • Murals and Miniatures, Deitch Projects, New York – US
  • The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, Missouri – US

1997

  • A Kind of Slight and Pleasing Dislocation, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco – US
  • The Drawing Center, New York – US
  • Murals and Miniatures, Deitch Projects, New York – US

1996

  • Knock Knock Who’s There? Mithilia, Mithilia Who?, Project Row Houses, Houston – US
  • Art Celebration 96: Shahzia Sikander, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston – US
  • Glassell at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston – US
  • Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston – US
  • Project Row Houses, Houston – US

1992

  • Rohtas Gallery, Islamabad – PK
  • Pakistan Embassy, Washington D.C. – US

 

Collettive selezionate

2018

  • Recent Acquisitions, National Portrait Gallery, Washington – US
  • Eye to I: Self-Portraits from 1900 to Today, National Portrait Gallery, Washington – US
  • Beyond Transnationalism: The Legacy of Post Independent Art from South Asia, Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai – IN
  • Lahore Biennale, Lahore – PK
  • Long, Winding Journeys: Contemporary Art and the Islamic Tradition, Katonah Art Museum, Katonah – US

2017

  • Everything we do is music, Drawing Room, London – UK

2016

  • Women in Print, Pace Prints, New York – US
  • Performing Time, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai – CN
  • Drawing Conclusions, RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island– US
  • Mixtape 2016, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London – UK
  • 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, California – US

2015

  • Annual 2015: The Depth of the Surface, National Academy Museum, New York – US
  • Our Land / Alien Territory (part of the special program of the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art), Manege, Moscow – RU
  • Doris Duke’s Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape and Islamic Art (curated by Donald Albrecht and Tom Mellins), Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu – US
  • Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s, curated by Alexandra Schwartz, Monclair Art Museum, New Jersey – US
  • Hare & Hound Press + artpace: the Art of Collaboration, Artpace, San Antonio, Texas – US
  • Teoría del duende, Fondación Federico García Lorca, Madrid (and Grenada) – ES

2014

  • Past Traditions, Exhibit 320 (curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt), New Delhi – IN
  • Shahzia Sikander: Project Room, Perez Art Museum, Miami – US
  • Infinite Challenge, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul – KR
  • Yebisu International Festival for Art and Architecture, Tokyo – JP
  • Still Moves, ArtC Phoenix Market City, Chennai – IN
  • Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka – BD
  • Past Traditions/New Voices in Asian Art, Hofstra University Museum, New York – US

2013

  • 13th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul –TK
  • Beyond Belief: Highlights from SFMOMA Collection, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco – US
  • The Collectors Show, Singapore Art Museum – SG
  • Echoes: Islamic Art & Contemporary Artists, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City – US
  • If you were to live here…, The 5th Auckland Triennial, Auckland – NZ
  • Mom, Am I Barbarian?, The 13th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul – TK
  • Marking Language, Drawing Room, London – UK
  • NO BORDERS: Contemporary art in a globalised world, (curated by Jeremy Lewison), Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol – UK
  • Re:emerge, towards a new cultural cartography, Sharjah Biennale 11, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah – AE

2012

  • Doris Duke’s Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape and Islamic Art, Museum of Art and Design, New York – US
  • Gifts of the Sultan: The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts, The Museum of Islamic Art, Doha – QA
  • The Annual 2012, National Academy Museum, New York – US
  • Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou – KR
  • New Prints 2012/Summer, Selected by Shahzia Sikander, IPCNY, New York – US
  • Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka – JP
  • The 2nd Mardin Biennial, Mardin – TK
  • Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka – JP
  • Shahzia Sikander and Jenny Holzer, Kogod Courtyard at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. – US
  • Contemporary Asian Art: Texas Connections, Asia Society Texas Centre, Houston –US

2011

  • Power of Doubt, Curated by Hou Hanru, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou – CN
  • Patria o Libertad! On Patriotism, Immigration and Populism, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto – CA
  • Future Pass: From Asia to the World, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice – IT
  • Gifts of the Sultan: The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston – US

2010

  • By Day, By Night, some (special) things a museum can do, Rockbund Museum, Shanghai – CN
  • Transformation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo – JP
  • Video Art: Replay : Part 2: Everyday Imaginary, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Philadelphia – US
  • Space, From MAXXI’s collections of art and architecture, MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome – IT
  • Monumental ‘Miniatures’: Large-scale Paintings from India, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia – US
  • The Holy Artwork, Emerson Gallery at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York – US

2009

  • Animamix Biennial: Visual Attract and Attack, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei – TW
  • Taswir: Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin – DE
  • Something About Mary, Gallery Met, New York – US
  • The 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial, Fukuoka – JP
  • Moving Perspectives: Shahzia Sikander and Sun Xun, Sackler Gallery, The Smithsonian, Washington DC – US
  • Significant and Insignificant Events, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul –TK
  • It’s fine as long as you draw but don’t film, Pilar Corrias, 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 – US; Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencià – ES
  • One Image May Hide Another: Arcimboldo-Dali-Raetz, Galeries Nationals du Grand Palais, Paris – FR
  • The 2nd Animamix Biennial, Taipei – TW
  • Tsinghua University and Today Art Museum, Beijing – CN

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
  • Demons, Yarns & Tales, The Dairy, London – UK; The Loft, Miami – US
  • Perverted by Theater, Apexart, New York – US
  • International Triennial of Contemporary Art, Prague – CZ

2007

  • Delicatessen, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton – US
  • Don’t Look: Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna’s Collection (Martina Yamin, class of 1958), Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley – US
  • In Wonderland, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale – US
  • Timer: Intimita/Intimacy, Triennale Bosvisa, Milan – IT
  • New Media/New Materials: Highlights in Contemporary Art from the Fabric Workshop Museum, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio – US
  • The Travelling Gallery, Edinburgh – UK
  • Not For Sale, PS1, Long Island City, New York – US
  • Cosmologies, James Cohen Gallery, New York – US
  • Global Feminisms, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Contemporary Art at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn; Davis Museum and Cultural
  • Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley – US
  • Take 2: Women Revisiting Art History, SFMoMA, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland – US
  • Fantasmagoria, Dibujo en movimiento, Fundacion ICO, Madrid – ES
  • Hammer Contemporary Collection Part II, The Hammer Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles – US

2006

  • Dirty Yoga: 2006 Taipei Biennial, Taipei – TW
  • Domains of Wonder: Masterworks of Indian painting, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – US
  • Without Boundary: Seventeen ways of Looking, Museum of Modern Art, New York – US
  • Shahzia Sikander. The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia – US
  • Video Venice, Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Adelaide – AU
  • Nuevos Misticos/New Mystics, Instituto Cabrera Pinto, La Laguna. Tenerife – ES
  • The Quiet in The Land, National Museum, Luang Prabang, Laos – TH
  • JaGGy-edge, The Traveling Gallery, Edinburgh – UK

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 – US
  • Drawing Narrative, College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster – US
  • Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now, The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York – US
  • Zeitsprunge Raumfolgen, IFA: Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen, Berlin – DE

2004

  • The Print Show, Exit Art, New York – US
  • First International Biennial of Contemporary Art-The joy of my dreams, Charterhouse of Santa Maria de las Cuevas, Seville – ES
  • Through Master’s Eyes, LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles – US
  • Watercolor Worlds, Dorsky Gallery, New York – US
  • 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 – US
  • Anywhere but here, Seven artists Pernament Commissions for Barts – UK

2003

  • Poetic Justice, The 8th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul – TR
  • Aliens in America: Others in the USA, Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire – US
  • 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 – US
  • Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, Museum of Modern Art, Queens, New York – US
  • Time/Frame, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin – US
  • Urgent Painting, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, Paris – FR

2001

  • Conversations with Traditions, Nilima Sheikh and Shahzia Sikander, Asia Society, New York; travelled 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 – US*
  • ARS 01, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki – FI
  • 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 – US
  • Expanding Tradition: Contemporary Works Influenced by Indian Miniatures, Deutsche Back Lobby Gallery, New York – US
  • New Works: 01.1 Rivane Neuenschwander, Shahzia Sikander, Tony Villejo, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas – US
  • New Artists, Recent Works, Rhotas Gallery, Islamabad – PK

2000

  • Projects 70, Museum of Modern Art, New York – US
  • 00, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York – US
  • Drawing on the Figure: Works on paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago – US
  • Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, New York – US
  • The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000, Part II, 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York – US

1999

  • Negotiating Small Truths, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin – US
  • Art-Worlds in Dialogue, Museum Ludwig, Cologne – DE
  • The 3rd Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT3), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane – AU
  • The American Century: Art & Culture 1900 – 2000, Part II, Whitney Museum of American Art – US

1998

  • On the Wall: Shahzia Sikander, William Kentridge, Barry McGee, Margaret Kilgallen, Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri – US
  • On Liberating Tradition: Byron Kim, Yinka Shonibare and Shahzia Sikander, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson – US
  • Global Vision: New Art from the 90s, Part II, Deste Foundation, Center for Contemporary Art, Athens – GR
  • Pop Surrealism, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut – US
  • I Love New York, Ludwig Museum, Cologne – DE
  • Cinco continentes y una ciudad: Salón internacional de pintura, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City – MX

1997

  • Out of India: Contemporary Art of the South Asian Diaspora, Queens Museum of Art, New York – US
  • Three Great Walls, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco – US
  • 7th Bienal Internacional de Escultura E Desenho, Caldas de Rainha – PT
  • The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York – US

1995

  • An Intelligent Rebellion, Women Artists of Pakistan, Cartwright Hall, Lister Park, Bradford – UK
  • Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston – US
  • Core Fellows Exhibition 1996, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston – US

1994

  • A Selection of Contemporary Paintings from Pakistan, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California – US