Nilima Sheikh: Fractured Skies

At MoMA Exhibitions, *Nilima Sheikh: Fractured Skies* situates the Baroda-based artist’s paintings and works on paper within an international museum frame, introducing many New York viewers to a practice shaped by South Asian histories and feminist inquiry. The exhibition traces how Sheikh builds images from layered narrative fragments—myth, memory, and political rupture—rather than a single linear account. If it reads as a New York institutional debut, that context matters: it marks a shift in whose modernisms enter the city’s canon. One clear effect is how private grief and public violence occupy the same pictorial weather.