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.
Images
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
