ZARINA HASHMI

Akara Modern

1937 -2020

Zarina Hashmi was an Indian-born, American artist whose works span drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. Yet it is abstract and minimal and exploration of the concept of home that made Hashmi a stalwart in the field today. Born in Aligarh, India, she earned a degree in mathematics before studying a variety of printmaking methods in Thailand. Her work evokes and explores the idea of home, distances, and trajectories, influenced by her extensive travels. She uses visual elements from Islamic religious decoration, especially the regular geometry commonly found in Islamic architecture.
 
She has lived and worked in New York City since the 1970s. Hashmi’s works have been exhibited worldwide, right from Singapore, New York, to Mumbai and Karachi. In addition, her works have been 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. In 2011, she even represented India at the Venice Biennale and the following year, her retrospective exhibition entitled, Zarina: Paper Like Skin, opened at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles which had later travelled to the Guggenheim Museum, New York and the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013. In 2023, a solo show, ‘Zarina 1980 – 2000; The Nostalgic Decades’ was held at Akara which displayed a range of Zarina’s works.
 

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Exhibitions


Ominous Idylls: Group Show March 14 - April 13 , 2024
Zarina 1980 - 2000: The Nostalgic Decades June 08 - August 01 , 2023
Follow Unfollow August 26 - September 17 , 2022
India Art Fair 2022 April 28 - May 01 , 2022
Memories Arrested In Space March 26 - May 05 , 2021

Places to Hide , Cast Paper , 30 x 30 inches, Ed 3/4 , 1980

Pool II (Burnt Umber) , Cast Paper , 22 x 22 inches , 1980's

Ghar (Home) , Cast Paper Sculpture , 24 x 32.5 inches , 1988

Untitled , Collage with BFK Light Paper printed with Black Ink, mounted on Paper , 10 x 10 inches , 2017

Untitled , Crushed Indian Handmade Paper, White Leaf stained with Sumi Ink, mounted on arches Black Paper , 10 x 10 inches , 2017

Untitled , Collage with BFK light Paper Printed with black ink, mounted on Paper , 12x12 inches , 2017

Dark Sea , Indian Handmade Paper with Sumi Ink mounted on arches cover buff Paper(Unique Works) , 12 x 12 inches , 2016

Untitled , Pin Drawing on Paper , 26 x 20 inches , 1978

Debris of Destruction , Collage with pewter leaf on Somerset Antique paper Mounted on Somerset Textured Cream paper , 2016

Untitled , Pin Drawing on Paper , 23 x 17 inches , 1978

Untitled , Collage with BFK Light Paper Printed with Black Ink Mounted on Somerset Antique Paper, (Unique) , 22 x 15 inches , 2016

Wall , Woodcut , 29 x 44 inches , 1970

Home I Made A Life In Nine Lines , Printed in Black on Arches Cover White Paper, Chine Colle on Handmade Nepalese Paper , 21.5 x 19 inches (each) , 1997

A House of Many Rooms , Etchings, Edition 15/25 , 10 x 7 inches (Each) , 1993

Home , Cast Paper , 8 x 24 inches , 1981