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Artist
Shahzia Sikander
b. 1969, Lahore, Pakistan · Pakistani-American · Based in New York, New York
- MFA, Rhode Island School of Design (1995)
- BFA, National College of Arts, Lahore (1991)
- Miniature Painting
- Drawing
- Sculpture
- Animation
Shahzia Sikander pioneered the contemporary neo-miniature movement, transforming traditional Indo-Persian manuscript painting into a radical medium for feminist, postcolonial, and political critique. Her dense gouache and gold-leaf compositions deconstruct orientalist tropes and celebrate cross-cultural diaspora histories.
Miniature painting; animation; sculpture
Gallery Representation
Artist Films
A Contemporary Spin on Eastern Manuscript Painting (Shahzia Sikander) | Art21
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Shahzia Sikander: Melting Boundaries | Art21 "Extended Play”
Major Works
- 1989–90The Scroll
- 2010The Last Post
- 2013Parallax
- 2003SpiNN
- 2001Pleasure Pillars
- 2015Gopi Contagion
- 2016Disruption as Rapture
- 2016Ecstasy as Sublime, Heart as Vector
- 2020Promiscuous Intimacies
- 2023Havah... to breathe, air, life
Museums & Public Collections
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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