ArtistsShahzia Sikander
Shahzia Sikander

Shahzia Sikander

1969
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75
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Shahzia Sikander is a Pakistani-American painter and visual artist who works across drawing, painting, printmaking, animation, installation, performance, and video. Her practice engages with South Asian visual traditions, particularly miniature painting, which she interrogates and fragments through contemporary formal strategies. Based in New York City, Sikander's work moves between historical reference and abstraction, dissolving the boundaries between traditional craft and conceptual intervention.

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Artsy artwork: Metro (2001)
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Artsy artwork: Untitled (1999)
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Artsy artwork: Untitled (1999)
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Artsy artwork: Refuge (2024)
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Artsy artwork: NOW (2023)
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Artsy artwork: Metro (2001)
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Artsy artwork: Refuge (2024)
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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Range: $1,500$325,000
WorkAuction HouseDateEstimateHammer Price
Fantastical Forms #1 and #2Christie'sMar 2025$7,000 – $10,000$18,900
Disruption as RaptureChristie'sOct 2024$30,000 – $50,000$32,760
Maligned MonstersChristie'sMar 2024$4,000 – $6,000Unsold
Power of SilenceChristie'sJul 2021$7,000 – $10,000$16,250
Text as Camo I & IIChristie'sJun 2019£10,000 – £15,000£12,500
NemesisChristie'sApr 2018£3,000 – £5,000£3,500
(i) Phenomenology of Transformation - Multiple Worlds (ii) Phenomenology of Transformation - Flower FieldsChristie'sSep 2017£10,000 – £15,000£21,250
Pathology of Suspension #9Christie'sDec 2016$12,000 – $18,000$50,000
UntitledChristie'sFeb 2016$7,000 – $10,000$6,875
No Parking Anytime (Armorial Bearings; Entangled; Heist; Metro; Reflect; Traffic Jam; Bound; Fright; Flight)Christie'sJun 2014£8,000 – £12,000£8,125
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