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| Zarina Hashmi | |
|---|---|
| Name | Zarina Hashmi |
| Birth date | 1937 |
| Birth place | Aligarh, British India |
| Death date | 25 April 2020 |
| Death place | New York City, United States |
| Nationality | Indian-born American |
| Known for | Printmaking, sculpture, installation |
Zarina Hashmi
Zarina Hashmi was an Indian-born American artist, printmaker, and sculptor known for minimalist, paper-based works exploring displacement, diaspora, partition of India, migration, and memory. Her practice engaged with audiences across institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and biennales including the Venice Biennale and the Sharjah Biennial. She became notable within networks connecting Modernism, Minimalism, Conceptual art, and South Asian art communities.
Born in Aligarh in 1937, she experienced the aftermath of the Partition of India which influenced her sense of place and identity. Her early schooling included time in Bombay and later studies at the University of Lucknow and the University of Delhi, after which she pursued postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Delhi and further training at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She relocated to London and enrolled at the Chelsea School of Art and later studied engineering-related subjects at the University of Karachi before emigrating to the United States and settling in New York City.
Her career unfolded through intersections with artists and institutions such as Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, and galleries like Ivan Dougherty Gallery and Lisson Gallery. Central themes included loss and longing, cartographies of migration, domestic architectures, borderlines, and archival traces tied to events like the Partition of India and global diasporic movements. Her oeuvre dialogued with movements represented by the Museum of Modern Art and critics from publications such as Artforum and The New York Times, positioning her work within debates around Minimalism and postcolonial narratives.
Key works include a series of woodcuts, intaglio prints, and installations such as "Home is a Foreign Place", "My Country is Wrong", and "Where Am I?" which were presented at venues including the Tate Modern, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. She represented thematic concerns at exhibitions like the Venice Biennale and the Whitney Biennial, and participated in retrospectives mounted by the Asia Society Museum and the Serpentine Galleries. Curators and critics from institutions such as the Getty Museum, the British Museum, and the Centre Pompidou have included her works in surveys addressing printmaking and diaspora art.
Her practice favored handmade papers, woodcuts, intaglio, embossing, and copperplate work connected to studios in New York City and workshops associated with Tamarind Institute methods. She employed techniques such as relief printing, monotype, and sculptural paper folding, often using rice paper, handmade rag paper, and graphite to create maps, floorplans, and textual imprints. Collaborations and exchanges with printers and workshops tied her to histories traced through institutions like the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and university print programs at Yale School of Art and Columbia University.
Her distinctions included honors and fellowships from organizations such as the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and recognition via acquisitions by major collections: the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the National Gallery of Art. She was the subject of critical essays in outlets including Art in America and received retrospective attention from museums like the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Walker Art Center.
She lived and worked primarily in New York City where she maintained a studio practice and engaged with communities around South Asian diaspora arts and international print networks. Her legacy is preserved in permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, and university collections at Harvard University and Columbia University. Scholarly work on her contributions appears in catalogues from the Getty Research Institute, monographs by Thames & Hudson, and academic journals tied to printmaking and postcolonial studies, influencing curators, artists, and institutions concerned with themes of exile, memory, and cartography.
Category:1937 births Category:2020 deaths Category:Artists from Uttar Pradesh