Pakistani-American artist Shahzia Sikander is widely celebrated for expanding and subverting pre-modern and classical Indo-Persian miniature painting traditions and launching the form known today as neo-miniature. Her practice explores gender roles, cultural identity, racial narratives, and colonial and postcolonial histories. This talk will present her powerful oeuvre, creative process, and multidisciplinary work, illuminating her critical role in bringing miniature painting into dialogue with contemporary art practice. Sikander’s early works from 1988-2003 are currently exhibited at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York.

Free and Open to the Public

Image Credit: Epistrophe, ink on paper, 10 x 15 feet. Morgan Library Museum,  2021.