25 signed ceramic tiles, designed by Shahzia Sikander and hand-built by Cincinnati artisans. Select a tile to view details and inquire.
Ceramic bas-relief · Signed and numbered · 21 of 25 remain
$7,500
25 signed ceramic tiles, designed by Shahzia Sikander and hand-built by Cincinnati artisans. Select a tile to view details and inquire.
Tile installed in the collection of Kelly Vanasse. Photos by Kallista Edwards.
In 2024, Shahzia Sikander’s career survey Collective Behavior, co-organized by the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art, premiered at the Venice Biennale before opening at both Ohio museums in February 2025. The exhibition brought Sikander into a sustained engagement with Cincinnati that led to Commons, her first outdoor mural, a three-story work on the facade of a former church downtown, produced by ArtWorks Cincinnati and dedicated in October 2025. Welcome Edition #10 was produced in conjunction with Commons, connecting the mural’s monumental scale to an intimate, hand-held form.
Sikander designed the edition of 25 ceramic tiles around two female figures, forms that have appeared throughout her three-decade practice in drawing, painting, animation, mosaic, glass, and sculpture. The figures test the boundaries between tradition and rupture, between the decorative and the monumental — themes Sikander has explored across media for three decades. Each tile is a unique bas-relief, hand-built in clay and finished with glazes that give every piece its own character.
Each tile was approved and signed by Shahzia Sikander. The edition is limited to 25. No additional tiles will be made.
Tiles are $7,500 each. Bespoke framing and professional art shipping are available.
Shahzia Sikander (b. 1969, Lahore, Pakistan) is widely recognized for transforming the traditions of Indo-Persian miniature painting into a contemporary practice that spans drawing, animation, mosaic, glass, and sculpture. Her work launched what is now known as the neo-miniature movement. She received her BFA from the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan, where she became the first woman to teach in the Miniature Painting Department, and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Sikander is a MacArthur Fellow (2006) and the recipient of the U.S. State Department Medal of Art (2012) and the Pollock Prize for Creativity (2023), among other awards. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the National Gallery of Art, among others. Her bronze sculpture NOW (2023) is installed on the rooftop of the Appellate Division Courthouse in Manhattan, the first female figure placed among the building’s nine historical male lawmakers. In 2024, her career survey Collective Behavior debuted at the Venice Biennale before traveling to the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art, and most recently to the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford.
Welcome Project artisans hand-building and glazing tiles for Welcome Edition #10 at Wave Pool, Cincinnati.
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