Shahzia Sikander

Art, for me, has always been a ticket for experience.

— Shahzia Sikander

My whole purpose of taking on miniature painting was to break the tradition, to experiment with it, to find new ways of…

— Shahzia Sikander

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.

— Shahzia Sikander

I don't really listen to music when I work. I really have to focus on one thing at a time. I like…

— Shahzia Sikander

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

— Shahzia Sikander

When I first arrived in Houston, I was fascinated with the elaborate styles of cowboy boots and thought they were incredibly exotic.…

— Shahzia Sikander

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me…

— Shahzia Sikander

I think context, location matters a lot. Because location obviously in my situation, it's the space in which the work is going…

— Shahzia Sikander

I'm interested in taking a form, breaking it apart, and then rebuilding it. It is about transformation for me...it is a very…

— Shahzia Sikander

Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the…

— Shahzia Sikander

For me, I always feel that I'm not sure what's going to happen next year or what's going to happen the year…

— Shahzia Sikander

I was very, very quiet. I was always a loner, hardly spoke, and I was quite a nerd in school. So I…

— Shahzia Sikander

Talking with other artists is an incredible process. You engage with the work very differently...a nd different relationships between different works start…

— Shahzia Sikander

I like driving. A lot. I think that's something I just enjoy the most. I can, at a moment's notice, drive across…

— Shahzia Sikander