Shahzia Sikander
Campus Arts Event
Shahzia Sikander
Celebrated visual artist Shahzia Sikander discusses recent work, including Witness, her sculpture that was vandalized by a man with a hammer on July 8, 2024, in Houston, Texas.
FREE
Lenfest Center for the Arts - The Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room
November 14, 2024 | 6:30 pm
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Event Details

Celebrated visual artist Shahzia Sikander is the Alan Kanzer Artist-in-Residence at the Zuckerman Institute and a Mentor in the MFA Visual Arts Program. She will discuss recent work, including Witness, her sculpture that was vandalized by a man with a hammer on July 8, 2024, in Houston, Texas.

Artist Details

Shahzia Sikander is widely celebrated for subverting Central and South-Asian miniature painting traditions into dialogue with contemporary international art practices and launching the form known today as neo-miniature.

Location

The Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room
Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 West 129th Street
New York, NY 10027

About The Event

Celebrated visual artist Shahzia Sikander is the Alan Kanzer Artist-in-Residence at the Zuckerman Institute and a Mentor in the MFA Visual Arts Program. She will discuss recent work, including Witness, her sculpture that was vandalized by a man with a hammer on July 8, 2024, in Houston, Texas. “I have chosen not to repair it. I want to leave it beheaded, for all to see. The work is now a witness to the fissures in our country.” Response by Betti-Sue Hertz, Director and Chief Curator, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery.

Shahzia Sikander is widely celebrated for subverting Central and South-Asian miniature painting traditions into dialogue with contemporary international art practices and launching the form known today as neo-miniature. Engaging ideas of language, trade, empire, and migration through feminist perspectives, Sikander’s paintings, video animations, mosaics and sculpture explore gender, sexuality, racial narratives, and colonial histories. Sikander is a recipient of the MacArthur award and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation’s Pollock Prize for Creativity, among others. A survey exhibition, Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behaviour, presented by the Cleveland Museum of Art and Cincinnati Art Museum as a Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, is on view until October 20th, 2024.

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Image: Witness, Shahzia Sikander, 2023 / courtesy of Lenfest Center for the Arts

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