Sean Kelly is delighted to announce the second exhibition in our Los Angeles gallery, Shahzia Sikander’s Radiant Dissonance, which also marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. This exhibition includes Sikander’s work in multiple mediums, including mosaic, sculpture, animated film, drawing, and a large-scale work on paper installation.

"For me this idea of mystery is a guidling principle - a generative project. I see it as resistance to the expected. It slows down the consumption of each work, keeping it open ended while being precise, making the viewer search for what can't be found." - Shahzia Sikander

"Glass was a natural direction, as much of my work deals with transparency and light." - Shahzia Sikander

"There is no intention to hide anything... Everything is very visible; the paper is very transparent. It flows, it moves. All marks, including any flaws, become a part of the piece, which has no borders and can expand in any direction, marking a site that is unstable and multivalent." - Shahzia Sikander

A MacArthur Foundation award winner, Shahzia Sikander lives and works in New York City.  She became a Fukuoka Laureate in 2022 as a recipient of the Arts and Culture Prize from Fukuoka, Japan. Sikander’s work was recently the subject of a traveling exhibition titled Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities, which opened at The Morgan Library, New York in June 2021 followed by the RISD Museum, Rhode Island in November 2021, and MFA Houston, Texas in March 2022. In January 2023, Shahzia Sikander will present two major new sculptures on the theme of justice in the exhibition, Havah… to breathe, air, life, in Madison Square Park, New York, and on the Courthouse of the Appellate Division, First Department of the Supreme Court of the State of New York. The exhibition focuses on Sikander’s exploration of female representation in public sculptures and is her first major, site-specific outdoor sculptural exhibition.

Sikander’s innovative artistic practice led to her meteoric rise internationally in the mid-nineties with important survey exhibitions in 1998 at both the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, followed by solo exhibitions at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 1999, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2000. She has had major solo exhibitions throughout the world, including the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto; MAXXI | Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome; the Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Hong Kong; the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; the Pérez Art Museum, Miami; and the San Diego Museum of Art, California, amongst others. Sikander has been included in international biennials such as the Lahore Biennale 01, Pakistan; the Karachi Biennale 17, Pakistan; the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Manege, Russia; the 8th and 13th Istanbul Biennials, Turkey; the 5th Auckland Triennial, New Zealand; the Sharjah Biennale 11, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE; the 51st and 54th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Italy; and The Whitney Biennial, New York amongst others.

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