M.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

B.F.A., National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan

SpiNN, Brent Sikkema, New York, NY

"Intimacy", Art Pace, San Antonio, TX (catalog)

"Acts Of Balance", Whitney Museum, Phillip Morris Branch, NYC (catalog)

"Shahzia Sikander" Directions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (catalog)

"Shahzia Sikander", The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MO (catalog)

The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (catalog)

"Miniatures and Murals," Deitch Projects, New York

"Knock Knock Who's There? Mithilia, Mithilia Who?" Artist Installation, Project Row Houses, Houston

Pakistan Embassy, Washington DC

"AOP 2002: The 37th Art on Paper Exhibition," Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, November 17 2002 – January 19, 2003

"Drawing Now: Eight Propositions," MoMAQNS, New York, October 17 2002- January 6, 2003

"Time/Frame" Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, UT, Austin, January 25- July 14

"Contemporary Drawing Show"- MOMA, NYC, Fall (catalog)

"Urgent Painting" Arc/Musee D'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, (catalog)

"Conversations with Traditions, Nilima Sheikh and Shahzia Sikander"- Asia Society, New York; traveled to: Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT; Royal Museum of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (Catalog)

"Threads of Vision: Toward a New Feminine Poetics" Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland (catalog)

"ARS 01", Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, Helsinki (catalog)

"Elusive Paradise", National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (catalog)

"Expanding Tradition", Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery, New York NY

"New Works: 01.1 Rivane Neuenschwander, Shahzia Sikander, Tony Villejo," Art Pace, San Antonio, TX

"New Artists, Recent Works," Rhotas Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan

"00", Barbara Gladstone Gallery, NYC, (catalog)

"Greater New York", PS1, in collaboration with MOMA, Queens, NY

"Drawing on the Figure: Works on paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

"The American Century", Whitney Museum, NYC, (catalog)

"Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art",Brisbane, Australia(catalog)

"Art-Worlds in Dialogue", Ludwig Museum, Köln, Germany (catalog)

"Negotiating Small Truths", The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX

"Cinco Continentes y una Ciudad", Museo de Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico (catalog)

"Pop Surrealism", Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT (catalog)

"Global Vision-New Art form the 90's"-Part 2, Deste Foundation, Center for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

"I love New York", Ludwig Museum, Köln, Germany (catalog)

"Liberating Tradition", Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY

"On the Wall", Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO

"Out of India," The Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows, NY (catalog)

"Three Great Walls," Yerba Buena Gardens Center for the Arts, San Francisco

"Project Painting," Lehman Maupin Gallery, New York, (catalog)

Caldas da Rainha Biennial, Portugal

Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC (catalog)

"Selections Spring '97," The Drawing Center, New York

"An Intelligent Rebellion, Women Artists of Pakistan," Bradford City Museum, Bradford, UK (catalog)

"Houston Area Exhibition," Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, TX

"A Selection of Contemporary Paintings from Pakistan," Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA (catalog)

The New Yorker, Goings on about Town, "Shahzia Sikander," January 27, 2003

Saltz, Jerry. "Good on Paper," The Village Voice, October 30- November 5, p.57

Smith, Roberta. "Retreat From the Wild Shores of Abstraction," The New York Times, Friday, October 18 p. E31

"Contemporary Art Commissions at the Asia Society and Museum," The Asia Society, C. 2002, ISBN: 0-87-848-091-9

Heartney, Eleanor. "Nilima Sheikh and Shahzia Sikander at the Asia Society," Art in America, March 2002

Dagan, Philippe, "L’Urgent Painting Avec Precipitation," Le Monde, January 25

"Urgent Painting," Arc/Musee D'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, by Sandra Antelo-Suarez et al. C. 2002, ISBN: 2-87900-603-1

Sand, J Olivia, Interview, Asian Art, January

"Drawing Now: Eight Propositions," exhibition catalog, MoMAQNS, New York, c. 2002 ISBN. 0-87070-362-5

Wehr, Anne, " Art, Asia Society returns home with Nilima Sheikh and Shahzia Sikander's miniature paintings", Time Out, Dec 27- Jan 2, issue 326

Desai, Vishakha N. "Conversations with Traditions: Nilima Sheikh and Shahzia Sikander," c.2001, ISBN: 0-87848-090-0

Gupta, Somini, "Joining Hindu and Muslim Icons in Art", NYTimes, Dec 26.

Arditi, Fiamma, "Tradizione contro," ARS, November.

Nakamura, Marie Pierre, "Shahzia Sikander > J'aime l'ambiguite de l'image entre sa realite et sa perception" Art Actuel -17, Nov-Dec.

Cotter, Holland, "Cosmopolitan Trove, On the Road to China," New York Times, Nov 16th.

Arditi, Fiamma, "Sikander, cosi ho conquistato l'America" La Stampa, Oct. 24.

Herbert, Lynn, Author for essay on section on spirituality, "sikander, turrell, hamilton, feodorov", Art: 21, Art in the 21st Century, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2001

Arditi, Fiamma, "La Rinascita de New York, vista dalle gallerie," Panorama. Oct. 11

Pollack, Barbara, "The New Look of Feminism," ARTnews, September Vol. 100, No. 8

Hunt, David, "First A Disclosure (Or at Least a Helpful Caveat) Bomb, summer

Zinnes, Harriet, "Projects 70," NY Arts, January.

Goodman, Jonathan, Review, United States, "Shahzia Sikander", Art Asia Pacific Issue 29

"Master Class," Harper's Bazaar, December

Cotter, Holland, "Shahzia Sikander, Acts of Balance", The New York Times, Friday, June 9

Sirmans, Franklin, "Shahzia Sikander, Acts of Balance", Time Out, June 15-22

Schwabsky, Barry, "A Painter of Miniatures on a Maximum Scale", Arts and Leisure

The NewYork Times, Sunday, May 14

Review, The New Yorker, May 22.

Pedersen, Victoria, "Echoes from the Orient", Paper, May

Zinnes, Harriet, Review, NY Arts, May, pg. 73

Savul, Rehana, "Re-inventing Miniature" Profile, Libas International, Volume 13, Issue 2

Henry, Max, "Today's Artist", Shahzia Sikander interviewed by Max Henry, The Art News Paper June-JulyvNewhall, Edith, "Installation" New York Magazine, April 24 p. 164

Fletcher, Valerie, Exhibition Catalog, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Self, Dana, "Trame Orientale et hybridite picturale", L'Homme, 156

Sikander, Shahzia, "Charting a New Discourse", Gallerie International, Biannual, Vol. 3, No. 2

"Drawing on the Figure: Works on paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, exhibition catalog.

Rolley Lumi, "Her Vibrant Journey", A. Magazine: Inside Asian America, Aug/Sept.

Fletcher, Valerie, Kunstweltem im Dialog, Mark Sheps et al. Ed. Exhibition Catalog Museum Ludwig

Friis Hansen, Dana, "Beyond the Future", Third Asia-Pacific Triennial, Exhibition Catalog, Queensland Art Gallery

DeMeo Carlozzi, Annette, "Negotiating Small Truths" Exhibition Catalog

Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin

Phillips, Lisa, The American Century, Exhibition Catalog, Whitney Museum of American Art

Bhabha, Homi, "Miniaturizing Modernity", Public Culture, Winter Volume 2, No. 1

Farris Phoebe, "Women Artists of Color", A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas, Greenwood Press

Francine Prose, "The Gallery: The Artist as Curator", The Wall Street Journal, Thursday, May 20

Gomez-Haro, Germaine, Five Continents and a City- Museo de Ciudad de Mexico", Art Nexus, no. 33, August-October

Hoban, Phoebe, "The Mod Squad," New York Magazine, January 11 pp. 30-37

Yeon Kim, Yu, "Fragmented Stories", Five Continents and One City-International

Salon of Painting, Exhibition Catalog, Mexico City, Mexico

Self Dana, Exhibition Catalog, Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO, pp.98-99

Gregos, Katerina, "Global Vision: New Art from the 90s (part2), Exhibition Catalog, Deste Foundation, Center for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

Watkin, Mel, "On the Wall: Selections from the Drawing Center, Exhibition Catalog Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis

Devji, Faisal, "Translated Pleasures" Exhibition Catalog, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago

Bhabha, Homi, "Chillava Klatch: Shahzia Sikander interviewed by Homi Bhabha", Exhibition Catalog, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago

Edward Gomez, "Past is Present", Art and Antiques, December pp. 60-66

Thomas McEvilley, "Tracking the Indian Diaspora", Art in America, Oct. pp. 74

Keley Chris, "Artswatch-Inside Cover", Ms. Magazine, May-June volume 8 No. 6, pp. 1 & 75

Greenberg, Kevin, "Sikander presents veiled illusions," Chicago Maroon Volume 109, number 38, April 7 p. 1

Jana, Reena, "Shahzia Sikander: Celebration of Femaleness", Flash Art, March-April

Johnston, Patricia, "Studio - Shahzia Sikander: Reinventing the Miniature," ArtNews, February volume 97, no. 2 pp. 86-88

Schwabsky, Barry, "Shahzia Sikander, Out of India," ArtForum. p. 113

Walz, Cara, "Cultural Surgery", Pitch Weekly, Nov 25-Dec 2, Kansas City, MO

Farver, Jane, "Out of India": Contemporary Art of the South Asian Diaspora Exhibition Catalog, Queens Museum of Art

Phillips, Lisa and Louise Neri, "1997 Whitney Biennial", Exhibition Catalog, Whitney Museum of American Art

Colpit, Frances, Core Exhibition Catalog, Glassell School of Art, Houston TX

Atamian, Christopher, "Review-Project Painting." Review October 1, pp. 1 19-20

Bonetti, David, "Yerba Buena Center chalks up more winners," The San Francisco Examiner, Friday, Sep. 26, pg. C-8.

Camhi, Leslie, "Xtra Small," The Village Voice. Nov. 25, Vol. XLII No. 47 pg. 107

Cotter, Holland, "Many Shows and Many Indias," The New York Times, Friday December 26, pp. E43 & E45

Goodman, Jonathon, "Small Pleasures," World Art, Issue No. 15, pp. 28-31

Haider, Masood, "Sikander's art defines East-West divide," Dawn (Pakistan), Wednesday December 10, pg.11

Friis-Hansen, Dana, "Full Blown," Art Asia Pacific, Issue No. 16, pp. 44-49

Jonathan Mandell, "India Inc.," NewsDay, Tuesday, November 25

Kimmelman, Michael, Biennial Narratives Snagged on the Cutting Edge The New York Times, Friday, March 21

Murdock, Robert, "Review-Murals and Miniatures," Review November 15, pp. 19-20

Review, The New Yorker, Dec. 1, pg. 27

Saltz, Jerry, "Review- Murals and Miniatures," Time Out New York, Issue No. 114 Nov. 27-Dec. 4, pg. 52

Ingrid Schaffner, Project Painting. Exhibition Catalog, Schjeldahl, Peter, "Painting Rules," The Village Voice, 30 September, Vol. XLII, No. 39 pg. 97

Smith, Roberta, "Paintings and Photos With Tales to Tell, Often About the Oddities of Growing Up," The New York Times, Friday December 5 pg. E31

Wakefield, Neville, "Three to Watch," Elle Decor No. 56, Dec/Jan pp. 62-70

Barbara A. MacAdam, Review, Whitney Biennial, ArtNews, May

Franklin Sirmans, Review, Selections Spring '97 "The Drawing Center," Flash Art, May/June

Kenneth Baker, "Uprooted," The San Francisco Chronicle, May 22

Roberta Smith, "Drawing that Pushes Beyond the Boundaries," The New York Times. March 21

Rena, Jana, "Cultural Weaving," Asian Art News, March/April

Frances Colpit, Core Exhibition Catalog, Glassell School of Art, Houston TX

Klein, Gudrun, "Beyond Surfaces" Art Lies, Winter Issue No. 13, 96/97, pp.11-13

Lutfy, Carol, "Asian Artists In America: Shahzia Sikander," Atelier International, Issue No. 832 December, pp. 49-57

Varghese, Rachel, "Pushing the Limits," Indo-American News, April 8

Pagel, David, "Do-It-Yourself World-Making," Core Exhibition Catalog Glassell School of Art, Houston TX

Hashmi, Salima and Niva Poovaya-Smith, An Intelligent Rebellion: Women Artists of Pakistan, Exhibition Catalog, Bradford Museum, UK

Sirhandi, Marcella, "A Selection of Contemporary Paintings from Pakistan," Exhibition Catalog. Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA

Hashmi, Salima, "Fine Art" Newsline, Pakistan, April

Akhter, Aasim, "Small is Beautiful," Herald, Pakistan, April

Hashmi,Salima, "Shahzia's Miniatures" Libas International, London, March

Saeed Khan, Rina, "The Best Art to have come out of NCA in Two Decades," The Friday Times Lahore, February 27-March 6

South Asian Women's Creative Collective Achievement Award

The Joan Mitchell Award

The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award

Core Fellowship, Glassel School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Graduate Fellowship Award, Rhode Island School of Design

Shakir Ali Award/Kipling award, (highest merit award) National College of Arts Lahore

Haji Sharif Award, (excellence in Miniature Painting) National College of Arts, Lahore

Distinction Award, Thesis Project, National College of Arts, Lahore