Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior
The Cincinnati Art Museum presents Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior, a career-spanning exhibition of the internationally renowned, New York-based artist. For more than three decades, Shahzia Sikander (born 1969, Lahore, Pakistan) has been reframing South Asian visual histories through a contemporary feminist perspective. Working in a variety of mediums—painting, drawing, print, digital animation, mosaic, sculpture, and glass—she reimagines the past for our present moment. Throughout her practice, she considers diasporic experiences, histories of colonialism, and Western relations with the global south and the wider Islamic world.
Rather than proceeding chronologically, Collective Behavior follows Sikander’s primary ideas and inquiries throughout her work, rooted as they are in a recurring lexicon of forms, figures, and ideas. The exhibition explores Sikander’s role as an American artist, a Pakistani artist, a Muslim artist, a feminist artist, and—perhaps most significantly—as a global citizen engaging with a disrupted historical narrative.
Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior premiered as a Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia, co-organized by the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art. After Venice, complementary iterations of the exhibition open across Ohio. CAM’s iteration of Collective Behavior is the largest and most comprehensive presentation of Sikander’s remarkable career.
Day / Start Time / End Time
Tuesday 11:00 AM 5:00 PM
Wednesday 11:00 AM 5:00 PM
Thursday 11:00 AM 8:00 PM
Friday 11:00 AM 5:00 PM
Saturday 11:00 AM 5:00 PM
Sunday 11:00 AM 5:00 PM
(Source: ohio.org)
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Rather than proceeding chronologically, Collective Behavior follows Sikander’s primary ideas and inquiries throughout her work, rooted as they are in a recurring lexicon of forms, figures, and ideas. The exhibition explores Sikander’s role as an American artist, a Pakistani artist, a Muslim artist, a feminist artist, and—perhaps most significantly—as a global citizen engaging with a disrupted historical narrative.
Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior premiered as a Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia, co-organized by the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art. After Venice, complementary iterations of the exhibition open across Ohio. CAM’s iteration of Collective Behavior is the largest and most comprehensive presentation of Sikander’s remarkable career.
Day / Start Time / End Time
Tuesday 11:00 AM 5:00 PM
Wednesday 11:00 AM 5:00 PM
Thursday 11:00 AM 8:00 PM
Friday 11:00 AM 5:00 PM
Saturday 11:00 AM 5:00 PM
Sunday 11:00 AM 5:00 PM
(Source: ohio.org)