Victoria Miro is delighted to announce the representation of Shahzia Sikander in partnership with Sean Kelly Gallery.
Few artists have so fundamentally transformed the form they were trained in as @Shahzia.Sikander, who took the centuries-old discipline of Central and South Asian manuscript painting and made it entirely, irreversibly new. Sikander's practice over the past three decades has been a sustained act of expansion across painting, video animation, mosaic, and sculpture.
Sikander's first exhibition with the gallery, entitled High Seas; Closed Skies, will take place in London this summer (5 June–31 July), featuring her acclaimed new animation 3 to 12 Nautical Miles, which debuted this spring at M+ (@mplusmuseum) in Hong Kong.
Glenn Scott Wright, President of Victoria Miro, said, 'I have long admired Shahzia Sikander's work and have followed her exceptional career with interest. As rigorously intelligent as it is visually compelling, her wide-ranging practice operates on so many levels, reframing and reimagining our world in endlessly revelatory ways. I am delighted that she is joining the gallery at this exciting moment and look forward to being part of the next chapter of Shahzia's extraordinary career.'
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Installation view of Shahzia Sikander, 3 to 12 Nautical Miles, 2026. Co-commissioned by M+ and Art Basel. Courtesy M+ and the artist
