Born in Pakistan and active in New York since the 1990s, Shahzia Sikander navigates the interplay of multiple identities, encompassing a range of artistic disciplines in her work and critically reinterpreting South Asian material history. Sikander s distinctly feminist iconography centers the narratives of immigrant women to challenge Eurocentric art histories and counter Orientalist scholarship.

This volume, accompanying a major mid-career retrospective concurrently at the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art, is the first comprehensive exploration of Sikander s ideas and art.