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Shahzia Sikander is an American-Pakistani artist whose eclectic work merges contemporary issues of Middle Eastern identity with art-historical references. Fusing traditional Indo-Persian miniature ...

About Face Artist Shahzia Sikander guest-curates at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City. Her selections, on exhibit through September 7, emphasize identity and portraiture.

In the artist’s works, a woman is at once a social subject pushing back against marginalization and a disruptive energy, a flow that transcends barriers. From the first wave of feminism in the 1840s ...