Zarina

Painter Sculptor | India

Born in 1937

Died in 2020

« Zarina work spans drawing, printmaking and sculpture. She an American India-born artist.. »

Zarina completed her graduation in B.Sc. with honours from the city’s Muslim University in 1958 before she turned to the study of printmaking in India and then abroad. She also studied printmaking with S. W. Hayter and Krishna Reddy at Atelier 17 in Paris and in 1974 studied woodblock printing at Toshi Yoshido’s studio in Tokyo on a Japan Foundation Fellowship. Experience: Hashmi has always engaged with the politics of space and its crossings. Her minimalist prints use these locations to construct new geographies, imbuing them with fresh perspectives and new, universal meanings. Mirroring her own extensive travels and the multiple meanings that the word ‘home’ has for her, Hashmi's work challenges familiar locations like ‘country’, the ways in which they are bordered, delimited and traversed and the feelings and memories that they evoke in us. Her work has been featured in several group shows and is part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.

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Zarina work spans drawing, printmaking and sculpture. She an American India-born artist.

Painter | Sculptor | India

Born in 1937

Died in 2020

Zarina
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Zarina completed her graduation in B.Sc. with honours from the city’s Muslim University in 1958 before she turned to the study of printmaking in India and then abroad. She also studied printmaking with S. W. Hayter and Krishna Reddy at Atelier 17 in Paris and in 1974 studied woodblock printing at Toshi Yoshido’s studio in Tokyo on a Japan Foundation Fellowship. Experience: Hashmi has always engaged with the politics of space and its crossings. Her minimalist prints use these locations to construct new geographies, imbuing them with fresh perspectives and new, universal meanings. Mirroring her own extensive travels and the multiple meanings that the word ‘home’ has for her, Hashmi's work challenges familiar locations like ‘country’, the ways in which they are bordered, delimited and traversed and the feelings and memories that they evoke in us. Her work has been featured in several group shows and is part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.

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Prizes
  • Grand Prize, International Biennial of Prints Bhopal, India 1989
  • Invited to International Arts Festival of Asilah, Asilah, Morocco 1988
  • Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY 1985
  • Fellowship, The Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY 1984
  • Fellowship, Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan 1974
  • President’s Award for Printmaking (India) 1969
  • Residency award, Art-Omi, Omi, NY 1994
  • Residency award, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY 1991
  • Grant, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation 1990
  • Fellowship, New York Foundation of the Arts, New York, NY 1990
  • Artist in Residence, Asian/Pacific/American Institute, New York University, New York 2017-18
  • Artist in Residence, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 2007
  • Residency award, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA 2006
Solo Exhibitions
  • Malvina Miller Gallery, San Francisco, California
  • Treveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi
  • Gallery F-15, Jeloya Moss, Norway
  • Cultural Center Ora, Athens, Greece
  • Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
  • Chanakya Gallery, New Delhi
  • Chanakya Gallery, New Delhi
  • Kunika Art Gallery, New Delhi
  • Chawkandi Gallery, Karachi
  • Gallery Espace, New Delhi
  • ‘Homes I Made’, Faculty Gallery, University of California, Santacruz
  • Chawkandi Gallery, Karachi
  • ‘House with Four Walls’, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
  • Roberta English Gallery, San Francisco, California
  • Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey
  • Art Heritage, New Delhi
  • 'Zarina: A Life in Nine Lines', Karan Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
  • 'Zarina: Atlas of Her World', Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri
  • 'Zarina: Weaving Darkness and Silence, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India
  • 'Zarina: Dark Roads', Asian/Pacific/American Institute, New York University, New York
  • 'Life Lines', Gallerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris
  • 'Zarina: Descending Darkness', Luhring Augustine, New York
  • 'Zarina: Folding House', Gallery Espace, New Delhi
Group Exhibitions
  • ‘A Celebration of Asian / Pacific American Art’, Tweed Gallery, NY
  • ‘Artist Books’, Harper Collins, New York, NY
  • ‘From Bonnard to Baselitz’, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
  • ‘The Abstract /Abstraction Show’, Foreman Gallery, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY
  • ‘USA Graphic’, Grafiska Sallskapet, Stockholm, Sweden
  • ‘The Language of Form / The Form of Language’, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York
  • ‘Coast to Coast/ Women of Color’, National Artist Book Project
  • ‘Handmade Paper’, Silvermine Gallery, Stamford, Connecticut
  • ‘New Art / New York’, The Harlem School of Art, New York
  • ‘Ripe Fruit’, PS-1, Long Island City, New York
  • 'Link', Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai
  • 'Frontlines: Notations from the contemporary Indian Urban', BodhiBerlin, Berlin
  • 'Fluid Structures: Gender and Abstraction', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
  • ‘WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, California
  • ‘Crossings: Contemporary Art of India’, Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick
  • With Nasreen Mohamedi and Mellhi Gobhai at Bombay Art Gallery, Mumbai
  • 'Fault Lines: Contemporary Abstraction by Artists from South Asia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
  • 'Marking Time: Process in Minimal Abstraction', Guggenheim, New York
  • 'Home Is a Foreign Place: Recent Acquisitions in Context', Met Breuer, New York
  • 'Homelands: Art from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan', Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
  • 'Altered Inheritances: Home Is a Foreign Place', Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • 'Deeper Within Its Silence, Devi Art Foundation', Delhi

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