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Pakistani-American artist Shahzia Sikander is internationally celebrated for bringing Indo-Persian miniature-painting traditions into dialogue with contemporary art practice.
In this Facebook Live, Sikander provides a special preview of the upcoming exhibition Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities, opening June 18, 2021.
This exhibition tracks the first fifteen years of Sikander's artistic journey, in which the artist richly interrogated gender, sexuality, race, class, and history, creating open-ended narratives that have sustained her work as one of the most significant artists working today.
Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities is organized by the RISD Museum and presented in collaboration with the Morgan Library & Museum.
This exhibition is made possible at the Morgan Library & Museum by lead corporate support from Morgan Stanley.
Additional support is provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art; Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky; Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin M. Rosen; and Sean and Mary Kelly and Sean Kelly Gallery.
This exhibition originated at the RISD Museum with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Scintilla Foundation, and the Robert Lehman Foundation, Inc. Additional publication support from the Vikram and Geetanjali Kirloskar Visiting Scholar in Painting Endowed Fund at the Rhode Island School of Design and Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.
Shahzia Sikander, Hood's Red Rider No. 2, 1997. Vegetable color, dry pigment, watercolor, gold (paint), and tea on wasli paper; 26.1 x 18.3 cm (10 1/4 x 7 3/16 inches). Collection of Susan and Lew Manilow. © Shahzia Sikander. Courtesy: the artist and Sean Kelly, New York.