Shahzia Sikander, who was profiled in the very first issue of Hyphen, was named a recipient of one of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius" grants. Damn!
I first heard of Shahzia when I was living in Houston. (She was a fellow at the Glassell School of Art’s Core Program there and now lives in New York.) Shahzia is known for her contemporary take on the traditional South Asian art of miniature painting.
Other Asian Americans on the list:
Atul Gawande Surgeon and author (he writes for the New Yorker) applying a critical eye and fresh perspective to modern surgical practice, articulating its realities, complexities, and challenges, in the interest of improving outcomes and saving lives.
Terence Tao Mathematician (at UCLA) bringing technical brilliance and profound insight to a host of seemingly intractable problems in such areas as partial differential equations, harmonic analysis, combinatorics, and number theory.
Full list of this year's 25 winners here. It's a pretty impressive list. The winners get $500,000 over five years, with no strings attached. Congratulations!
Posted by Melissa at September 20, 2006 12:00 PM
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Some of her prints are up at the De Young, part of an exhibition on artists' work for Crown Point Press. They're soooo fricking cool.
Posted by: rebecca at September 27, 2006 5:03 PM
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