Power of Silence, 2009
Shahzia Sikander (b. 1969; Lahore Pakistan) lives and works in New York, NY, USA. She received her M.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design and her B.F.A. from National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan.
Solo exhibitions include Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA (2022); Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities, Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY, USA (2021); Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities, RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, RI, USA (2021); Shahzia Sikander: Unbound, West Court Gallery, Jesus College, Cambridge, UK (2021); Shahzia Sikander: Infinite Woman, Pilar Corrias Galley, London, UK (2021); Weeping Willows, Liquid Tongues, Sean Kelly, New York, NY, USA (2020); Disruption as Rapture, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA (2019); A Journey Into The Great Unknown, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA (2017); Disruption as Rapture, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada (2017); PARALLAX, Carleton College, Minnesota, USA (2017); Parallax, Carleton College, Minnesota, USA (2017); Project Gallery: Shahzia Sikander, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA (2017); Ecstasy As Sublime, Heart As Vector, MAXXI, Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI, Secolo, Rome, Italy (2016); Shahzia Sikander: Apparatus of Power, Chantall Miller Gallery, Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Hong Kong, China (2016); Midnight Moment: Gopi Contagion, Times Square Arts, New York, NY, USA (2015); Shahzia Sikander, Tufts University Art Gallery, Boston, MA, USA (2015); Parallax, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweeden (2014); The Last Post, Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX, USA (2012); Interstitial: 24 Faces and the 25th Frame, Daadgalerie, Berlin, Germany (2008); and Shahzia Sikander, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (2007).
Group exhibitions include IMAGE? THE POWER OF THE VISUAL, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada (2022); Media Relay: An Exhibition in Two Parts, National Academy of Design, New York, NY, USA (2022); Narrative Terrain: Landscape as Storytelling, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PN, USA (2022); Hair Stories, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI (2021); M+Sigg Collection: From Revolution to Globalisation, M+ Museum, Hong Kong, China (2021); Present Tense: New prints, 2000-2005, International Print Center New York, NY, USA (2021); The Light Between Us, Online video exhibition hosted by KADIST (2021); The MacArthur Fellow Program at 40, Organized by The Smart Museum, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, USA (2021); Glitch, Tahrir Cultural Center, American University, Cairo, Egypt (2020); Into the Open, New Zealand Festival of The Arts, Wellington, New Zealand (2020); Miniature 2.0, Pera Art Museum, Istanbul, Turkey (2020); Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA (2020); We Do Not Dream Alone, Asia Society Triennial, Asia Society, NY, USA (2020); All the Sacred Tombs, Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba, Spain (2019); Fanoon Center For Printmedia Research: Highlights 2012-2019, Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts, Qatar, Doha (2019); Modest Fashion, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, The Netherlands (2019); Transcendent, Burlington City Arts, Burlington, Vermont, USA (2019); Women Breaking Boundaries, Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA (2019); Beyond Transnationalism: The Legacy of Post Independent Art from South Asia, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, India (2018); Delirium/Equilibrium, Kiran Nader Museum of Art, New Delhi, India (2018); Eye to I: Self-Portraits from 1900 to Today, Smithsonian Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, USA (2018); Fearless, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2018); Listening to Art, Seeing Music, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Ontario (2018); Lahore Biennale 01, Shehr-O-Funn, Lahore, Pakistan (2018); Long, Winding Journeys: Contemporary Art, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (2018); Recent Acquisitions, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, USA (2018); Scale: Possibilities of Perspective, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, USA (2018); The World on Paper- collection Deutsche Bank, Museum Palais Populaire, Berlin, Germany (2018); Disruption as Rapture, Karachi Biennale 17: Witness, Karachi, Pakistan (2017); Mixtape, , Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, England, UK (2016); Performing Time, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China (2016); Scenes for a New Heritage, Museum of Modern Art, NY, USA (2016); Annual 2015: The Depth of the Surface, National Academy Museum, New York, NY, USA (2015); Our Land / Alien Territory (part of the special program of the 6 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art), Manege, Moscow, Russia (2015); Doris Duke’s Shangri La:Architecture, Landscape and Islamic Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA (2014); Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2014); and Yebisu International Festival for Art and Architecture, Tokyo, Japan (2014);