Like a live journal of her personal life and events, Zarina Hashmi’s work deals with a multitude of themes like displacement, travel, memory and the home, which all echo through her perpetual experience and larger identity of a Diaspora, bringing to the fore the idea of dislocation.
Born in New Delhi in 1937, she spent her formative years in Aligarh. After getting married to a diplomat, she often relocated to different countries and continents, profoundly impacting her creative and sensitive mind. This reflected in a sophisticated web of maps and diagrams, embodying the memory of a place, an event, an atmosphere, or the fleeting experience of a sound, a smell, or an emotion.
The artist first did her B.Sc. (Honors) from Aligarh Muslim University (1958). She later studied printmaking with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier-17, Paris (1964-1970), and woodblock printing at Toshi Yoshida Studio, Tokyo (1974). Among her selected solo shows are recent works at Gallery Espace, New Delhi; ‘Zarina Hashmi: 1961-2011, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; ‘The Ten Thousand Things’, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York (2009) ‘Directions to my House’, Shanghai Contemporary 07 Art Fair; ‘Kagaz Ke Ghar’ (Paper Houses), Gallery Espace, Delhi (2007); ‘Weaving Memory 1990-2006, Bodhi Art, Mumbai; ‘Silent Soliloquy’, Bodhi Art, Singapore, Thailand (2006); ‘Counting’, Bose Pacia, New York (2005); ‘Maps, Homes and Itineraries’, Gallery Lux, San Francisco (2003).
The major group shows that she has featured in include ‘Roots in the Air, Branches Below’ San Jose Museum of Art, California (2011); ‘Drawn from Life: A Green Cardamum Project’, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Cumbria, Britain (2011); ‘Voice & Vision’ Grolier Club, New York (2011); ‘Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions’, The Museum of Modern Art, NY (2010); ‘Luhring Augustine 25 Years’, NY (2010); ‘Orientations: Trajectories in Indian art’, De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium (2010); ‘The Third Mind’, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2009).
Mention must also be made of ‘Expansion-Résonance’, Jaeger Bucher, Paris (2008); ‘India Moderna’, Institut Valencia d’art Moderne, Valencia, Spain ((2008); Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2008); ‘Gouge: The Modern Woodcut’, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2008); ‘Frontlines: Notations from the Contemporary Indian Urban’, Bodhi Berlin (2008); ‘Drawn From Life: Drawing Space’, Green Cardamum, London (2008); and ‘Everywhere is War’ Bodhi Art, Mumbai (2008), among others.
Born in New Delhi in 1937, she spent her formative years in Aligarh. After getting married to a diplomat, she often relocated to different countries and continents, profoundly impacting her creative and sensitive mind. This reflected in a sophisticated web of maps and diagrams, embodying the memory of a place, an event, an atmosphere, or the fleeting experience of a sound, a smell, or an emotion.
The artist first did her B.Sc. (Honors) from Aligarh Muslim University (1958). She later studied printmaking with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier-17, Paris (1964-1970), and woodblock printing at Toshi Yoshida Studio, Tokyo (1974). Among her selected solo shows are recent works at Gallery Espace, New Delhi; ‘Zarina Hashmi: 1961-2011, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; ‘The Ten Thousand Things’, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York (2009) ‘Directions to my House’, Shanghai Contemporary 07 Art Fair; ‘Kagaz Ke Ghar’ (Paper Houses), Gallery Espace, Delhi (2007); ‘Weaving Memory 1990-2006, Bodhi Art, Mumbai; ‘Silent Soliloquy’, Bodhi Art, Singapore, Thailand (2006); ‘Counting’, Bose Pacia, New York (2005); ‘Maps, Homes and Itineraries’, Gallery Lux, San Francisco (2003).
The major group shows that she has featured in include ‘Roots in the Air, Branches Below’ San Jose Museum of Art, California (2011); ‘Drawn from Life: A Green Cardamum Project’, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Cumbria, Britain (2011); ‘Voice & Vision’ Grolier Club, New York (2011); ‘Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions’, The Museum of Modern Art, NY (2010); ‘Luhring Augustine 25 Years’, NY (2010); ‘Orientations: Trajectories in Indian art’, De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium (2010); ‘The Third Mind’, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2009).
Mention must also be made of ‘Expansion-Résonance’, Jaeger Bucher, Paris (2008); ‘India Moderna’, Institut Valencia d’art Moderne, Valencia, Spain ((2008); Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2008); ‘Gouge: The Modern Woodcut’, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2008); ‘Frontlines: Notations from the Contemporary Indian Urban’, Bodhi Berlin (2008); ‘Drawn From Life: Drawing Space’, Green Cardamum, London (2008); and ‘Everywhere is War’ Bodhi Art, Mumbai (2008), among others.
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