Shahzia Sikander

Shahzia Sikander is widely celebrated for subverting Central and South Asian miniature painting histories in her contemporary art practice. Engaging ideas of language, trade, empire, and migration through feminist perspectives, Sikander’s paintings, video animations, mosaics and sculpture explore gender and body politics, racial narratives, and colonial histories. Sikander is a recipient of the Pollack Prize for Creativity, Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2023) and the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship ‘Genius’ Award (2015), among many others. A survey exhibition, Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior, premiered as a Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, co-organized by the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art. The exhibition was on view until October 20th, 2024 in Venice. Complementary iterations will be presented in parallel at both Ohio institutions from February 14, 2025.

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