© Shahzia Sikander
© Shahzia Sikander

Shahzia Sikander Honored at RISD

Pace Prints collaborator Shahzia Sikander is the 2016 Vikram and Geetanjali Kirloskar Visiting Scholar in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. The program includes the annual Gail Silver Memorial Lecture and conversations with Ayad Akhtar, Rick Lowe and Julie Mehretu. In 2016, Sikander collaborated on an etching project with Ayad Akhtar, who wrote the introductory text Breath of Miraj for the artist's Portrait of the Artist suite, published by Pace Editions, Inc.

The lecture will take place Wednesday, October 19, 6-8pm at the Metcalf Auditorium.