Ladli

In 2005 Sheikh was awarded the Henri Cartier-Bresson International Grand Prize, which enabled the research and creation of the Ladli exhibition, which opened at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris and was subsequently toured through Europe and the United States in concert with the Moksha exhibition under the title Beloved Daughters. The exhibition was co-organized by the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, Paris, and the Princeton University Art Museum. Exhibition venues included the following:

List Art Center, Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island
March 27 – May 30, 2010

Museum of Photographic Arts

San Diego, California
October 10, 2009 – January 31, 2010

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Kansas City, Missouri
June 27 – September 13, 2009

Van Every/Smith Galleries

Davidson College, North Carolina
October 17 – December 10, 2008

Syracuse University Art Museum

February 6 – May 2008

Princeton University Art Museum

New Jersey
September 29, 2007 – January 6, 2008

Pace/MacGill Gallery

New York City
October 18 – November 7 2007

Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation

Paris, France
May 10 – August 26, 2007

Ladli was also nominated for the Deutsche Börse Prize 2008 and exhibited at the following venues in Europe:

Deutsche Börse Headquarters

Frankfurt, Germany
September – October 2008

C/O Berlin

Germany
May 16 – July 13, 2008

The Photographer’s Gallery

London
February 8 – April 6, 2008