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San Francisco Art Institute (Main Campus)

April 21 - April 21, 2011

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Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series: Shahzia Sikander The Last Post. Animated drawing, 2010. Courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York
Artist Shahzia Sikander has been instrumental in the rediscovery and re-contextualization of Indo-Persian miniature painting, pioneering an experimental approach to the anachronistic genre. Encompassing painting, drawing, animation, installation, video, and film, Sikander’s work radically rearticulates the miniaturist tradition by inserting new dialogue that is often subversive and polemical. An exhibition of her work runs April 23–June 25, 2011 in SFAI’s Walter and McBean Galleries. Sikander holds a BFA from the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan, and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, and is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among many others. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2006. San Francisco Art Institute, Lecture Hall Free and open to the public