Zarina Hashmi

Born in Aligarh in 1937, Zarina Hashmi received a bachelor's degree. She graduated with honors from the city's Muslim University in 1958 before dedicating herself to the study of printmaking in India and then abroad. Between 1963 and '67 she studied printmaking with S. W. Hayter and Krishna Reddy at the Atelier 17 in Paris, and in 1974 she studied wood engraving at the Toshi Yoshido studio in Tokyo with a scholarship from the Japan Foundation. 

Hashmi has always been engaged with the politics of space and its intersections. Reflecting on her extensive travels and the multiple meanings that the word home has for her, Hasmi's work challenges familiar places like the countryside, the ways in which they are bordered, delimited and traversed, and the feelings and memories they evoke in us. Her minimalist prints use these places to construct new geographies, giving them fresh perspectives and new, universal meanings. 

Hashmi has obtained residencies at Art-Omi in Omi and at the Womens Studio Workshop in Rosendale, both in New York, where she eventually settled. In 1985 and 1990, Ella Hashmi received the New York Fine Arts Fellowship in the printmaking category. Additionally, Ella Hashmi has taught at Bennington College, Cornell University, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. 

Her solo exhibitions include two retrospectives, Silent Soliloquy at Bodhi Art, Singapore (2006) and Counting 1977-2005, at Bose Pacia Modern, New York (2005), and others such as Cities, Countries and Borders at Chemould Gallery in Mumbai and Chawkandi Gallery in Karachi, (2004), Maps, houses and itineraries at Gallery Lux in San Francisco (2003), Home is a Foreign Place at Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison (2002), Houses I Made in the Faculty Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz (1994), and House with Four Walls at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (1992). Additionally, her work has appeared in several group exhibitions 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 Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. 

The artist passed away on April 25, 2020. 

BORN

1937 Aligarh India

DIED

April 25, 2020 London

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS

1974 Studied woodblock printing at Toshi Yoshida Studio, Tokyo.

1963-1967 he studied etching with S.W. Hayter at Atelier-17, Paris.

1958 Bachelor of Science (Honours) Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 Zarina Hashmi A Life in Nine Lines, Karan Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi

2019-20 Zarina Hashmi Atlas of Her World, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri

2018 Zarina Hashmi Weaving Darkness and Silence, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India

2017-18 Zarina Hashmi Dark Roads, Asian Pacific American Institute, New York University, New York

2016 Lifelines, Jeanne Bucher Jaeger Gallery, Paris

2014 Zarina Hashmi Descending Darkness, Luhring Augustine, New York

2014 Zarina Hashmi Folding House, Gallery Espace, New Delhi

2012-13 Zarina Paper-Like Skin, Armand Hammer Arts and Culture Center, Los Angeles, CA, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

2011 Noor, Jaeger Bucher Gallery, Paris

2011 Zarina Hashmi recent works, Gallery Espace, New Delhi

2011 Zarina Hashmi 1961-2011, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA. 

2009 The Ten Thousand Things, Luhring Augustine, New York

2009 Jean Bucher Gallery, Paris

2007-08 Bodhi Art, New Delhi

2007 Kagaz Ke Ghar, Gallery Espace, New Delhi

2007 Weaving Memory 1990-2006, Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai

2006 Silent Soliloquy, Bodhi Art Gallery, Singapore

2005 Count 1977-2005, Bose Pacia, New York

2005 Home is a Foreign Place, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai

2004 Cities, Countries and Borders, Chemould Gallery, Mumbai, Espace Gallery, New Delhi, Chawkandi Gallery, Karachi, Rohtas 2 Gallery, Lahore

2003 Maps, Houses and Itineraries, Gallery Lux, San Francisco, California

2002 Home is a Foreign Place, Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey

2001 Mapping a Life 1991 - 2001, Mills College Museum, Oakland, California

2000 Home is a Foreign Place, Admit One Gallery, New York

2000 Chawkandi Gallery, Karachi

2000 Espace Gallery, New Delhi

1994 Houses I Made, Faculty Gallery, University of California, Santacruz

1993 Chawkandi Gallery, Karachi

1992 House with Four Walls, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York

1990 Roberta English Gallery, San Francisco, California

1988 Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey

1986 Artistic heritage, New Delhi

1986 Chitrakoot Gallery, Calcutta

1986 Cymroza Gallery, Bombay

1985 Women Artists Series, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

1983 Satori Gallery, San Francisco, California

1981 Orion Editions, New York

1981 Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca, New York

1978 Chanakya Gallery, New Delhi

1977 Alana Gallery, Oslo

1976 India Ink Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1975 Malvina Miller Gallery, San Francisco, California

1974 Treveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi

1972 Gallery F-15, Jeloya Moss, Norway

1971 Ora Cultural Center, Athens, Greece

1970 Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay

1970 Chanakya Gallery, New Delhi

1969 Chanakya Gallery, New Delhi

1968 Kunika Art Gallery, New Delhi

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 Fault Lines Contemporary Abstraction by South Asian Artists, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

2019-20 Marking Time Process in minimal abstraction, Guggenheim, New York

2019-20 Home is a Foreign Place: Recent Acquisitions in Context, Met Breuer, New York

2019-20 Homelands Art from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, Kettles Yard, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England

2019 Altered Inheritances Home is a Foreign Place, Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2019 Deeper Into Her Silence, Devi Art Foundation, Delhi

2019 Indies French Connection Indian artists in France, DAG, New York

2019 Lines of Shadow Experiments with Light, Line and Liminality, Shrine Empire, New Delhi

2019 The Warmth of Other Suns Stories of Displacement, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

2018-19 Inhabiting the Mediterranean, IVAM - Institut Valencia dArt Modern, Valencia, Spain

2018 Beyond Transnationalism The Legacy of Post-Independent South Asian Art, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai

2018 Debris-collages recuperer, ensemble et reconstructe, Lille metropole musee dart moderne dart contemporain et dart brut (LaM), Villeneuve dAscq, France

2018 Dialectic of entanglement do we exist together?, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn

2018 The House Imaginary, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Planetary Planning 2018, Dhaka Art Summit, Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka

2017 The 10 Year Hustle, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai

2017 Exhibition 1, Institute of Arab and Islamic Art, New York

2017 Le Feminin Demeure, Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris, France

2017 Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions South Asian Art in the Diaspora, Asia Society, New York

2017 On Line Dot, Japan Foundation, New Delhi

2017 Passion de lart Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger since 1925, Musee Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France

2017 Popcorn design, art and cinema, Musee dArt Moderne et Contemporain, Saint-Etienne, France

2017 The Restless Earth La Terra Inquieta, La Triennale di Milano, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan

2017 Summer 2017, 1x1 Gallery, Dubai

2017 Unmoored Geographies, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS

2017 Whispers of the Earth, Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris

2016 Workshop and legacy Stanley William Hayter, Krishna Reddy, Zarina Hashmi, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

2013 Accompanying Silences, Tokyo Palace, Paris

2013 Panoplismo, Nature Morte, New Delhi

2012 Looking Back, Looking Forward, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai

2011 The Second Sex New Feminist Photography at the Top, Lakeeren, Mumbai

2011 Drawn from Life, A Green Cardamum Project, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Cumbria, UK

2010-11 Lot, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai

2010 Orientations Trajectories in Indian Art, De 11 Lijnen Foundation, Oudenburg, Belgium

2009 Charting Time, Bodhi Art, Mumbai

2008 Fault Lines, Bodhi Art, Mumbai

2008 Drawn from Life Drawing Process, Green Cardamom, London

2008 Expansion-Resonance, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris

2008 Everywhere There is War (and Rumors of War), Bodhi Art, Mumbai

2008 Link, Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai

2008 Frontlines Annotations of the Contemporary Indian Urban, BodhiBerlin, Berlin

2008 Fluid Structures Gender and Abstraction, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi

2007 WOW! Art and Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, California

2006 Crossings Contemporary Art from India, Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick

2006 With Nasreen Mohamedi and Mellhi Gobhai at Bombay Art Gallery, Mumbai

2005-08 Figures of Thought Convergences in Contemporary Cultures, traveling exhibition, USA. 

2003 Fresh Talk Revisited Fresh Talk Daring Gaze New York Artists, Gallery of Asian Pacific American Studies, New York University, New York

2002 Of the Two Feathers  Line and Color in Islamic Art, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA

2002 Reflections on a Moment of Transformation, The Cathedral of St. John the Divine Synod Hall New York

2001 In conversation, Gallery Espace, New Delhi

1998 Asian American Artists Cross-Cultural Voices, University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York

1998 Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi

1998 Connections, Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza College, Cupertino, California

1997 Out of India Contemporary Art of the South Asian Diaspora, Queens Museum of Art, New York

1997 Printmakers of India and Pakistan, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1996 25 Years of Feminism 25 Years of Women's Art, Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

1996 Asian Fusion Contemporary Asian American Art, Hillwood Museum of Art, Long Island University, Brookville, New York

1995 Arts and Letters, June Kelly Gallery, New York

1994 Asia America Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art, Asia Society, New York

1994 A Celebration of Asian and Pacific American Art, Tweed Gallery, New York

1993 Artist Books, Harper Collins, New York, NY

1992 From Bonnard to Baselitz, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

1991 The Abstract Abstraction Show, Foreman Gallery, Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York

1990 US Chart, Grafiska Sallskapet, Stockholm, Sweden

1988 The language of form The form of language, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York

1988 Coast to Coast Women of Color, National Artist Book Project

1987 Handmade Paper, Silvermine Gallery, Stamford, Connecticut

1986 New Art New York, The Harlem School of Art, New York

1985 Low-Ripe Fruit, PS-1, Long Island City, New York

1985 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York

1984 Transformed Paper National Exhibition, Indiana State University Terre Haute, Indiana

1983 Koninklikk Voor De Tropen Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1983 Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, Delaware

1983 Sculptural Paper, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, Connecticut

1982 Papermaking USA, American Craft Museum, New York

1981 Transformations Women in Art 70s - 80s, New York Coliseum, New York

1981 Alternative Museum, New York

1980 Dialectic of Isolation Third World Women Artists from the United States, AIR Gallery, New York, NY

1979 Princeton University Library, Princeton, New Jersey

1978 Soho-20, New York, New York

1977 Women in the Arts Working Papers, Albany, New York

1977 HOT, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1975 Director's Choice, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

1975 Curwen Gallery, London

1975 Color Light & Image, Women Interart Center, New York

PARTICIPATIONS

2013 Sahmat Art and Collective Activism in India since 1989, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago

2012 Indian Modernist Art Approaching Abstraction, Rubin Museum of Art, New York

2012 Crossings Time Unfolded, Part 2, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi

2012 Lines of Control, co-hosted by Green Cardamom at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca

2011 Homemade, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi

2011 Everyone agrees it's about to explode, Indian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Venice

2011 Manifestations V, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi

2011 Roots in the Air, Branches Below Modern and Contemporary Art from India, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose

2010 Art Celebrates 2010, represented by Gallery Espace at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, coinciding with the celebration of the Commonwealth Games

2010 Alternative Abstractions of Mind and Matter, from the 1940s to the Present, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York

2010 Twenty-Five, Celebrating 25 Years, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York

2009 The Third Mind Eye American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989, Guggenheim Museum, New York

2008-09 India Moderna, organized by the Institut Valencia dArt Modern (IVAM) and Casa Asia, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture of Valencia, Spain

2008-09 Expanding Horizons Contemporary Indian Art, traveling exhibition presented by Bodhi Art at Ravinder Natya Mandir, P.L.Despande Kala Academy Art Gallery, Mumbai, Sant Dyaneshwar Natya Sankul Art Gallery, Amravati, Platinum Jubilee Hall, Nagpur Tapadia Natya Mandir Sports Hall, Aurangabad, Hirachand Nemchand Vachanalays, Solapur Acharya Vidyan and Sanskrutik Bhavan, Kolhapur PGSR Sabhagriha, SNDT, Pune Sarvajanik Vachanalaya Hall, Nasik

2008 Moderns, Royal Cultural Centre, Amman, Jordan organized by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi in collaboration with Embassy of India, Amman, Jordan

2008 Art Beijing 2008, Beijing represented by Bodhi Art, Mumbai

2007 SHContemporary, Shanghai presented by Bodhi Art, Mumbai

2007 Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, represented by Bodhi Art, Mumbai

1995 Third Bharat Bhavan International Print Biennale, Bhopal

1994 International Printing and Intergraph Triennial, Krakow, Poland

1993 Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition, University of Hawaii at Hilo

1992 Norwegian International Print Triennial, Fredrikstad, Norway

1989 Bharat Bhavan International Print Biennale, Bhopal

1974 Graphics Biennale, Tokyo, Japan

HONORS AND AWARD

2017-18, Artist in Residence, Asian Pacific American Institute, New York University, New York

2007 Artist in Residence, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA

2006 Residency Award, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA

2002 Artist in Residence, Williams College, Williamstown, MA

1994 Residency Award, Art-Omi, Omi, New York

1991 Residency Award, Women Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York

1990 Grant Foundation, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb

1990 Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY

1989 Grand Prize, International Biennial of Prints Bhopal, India

1988 Invited to the Asilah International Arts Festival, Asilah, Morocco

1985 Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY

1984 Scholarship, The Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY

1974 Scholarship, Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan

1969 Presidents Printmaking Award India