Shahzia Sikander

Art Brokerage: Shahzia Sikander Pakistani Artist: b. 1969. Sikander was born in Pakistan in 1969 and broke with traditional expectations of women to immigrate to the United States and pursue a career in the arts the early 1990s. She graduated with her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1995, and began showing with the legendary Deitch Projects shortly thereafter. The winner of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant," whose work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum and numerous other noted institutions, Sikander has proven herself one of the most vibrant, engaging, and multifaceted talents in contemporary art. Her body of work encompasses painting, drawing, murals, digital animation, installations, videos, and performance art. Multiple Bearings was created in the early phase of Sikander's career, and was included in solo exhibitions at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (1998) and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1999-2000), giving her work its widest public exposure to date.