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Zarina
Hashmi received a B.Sc. degree with honours from the city’s Muslim
University in 1958 before she turned 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 Atelier 17 in Paris, and in
1974 studied woodblock printing at Toshi Yoshido’s studio in Tokyo
on a Japan Foundation Fellowship.
Hashmi has always engaged with the politics of space and its
crossings. Mirroring her own extensive travels and the multiple
meanings that the word ‘home’ has for her, Hasmi’s work
challenges familiar locations like ‘country’, the ways in which
they are bordered, delimited and traversed, and the feelings and
memories that they evoke in us. Her minimalist prints use these
locations to construct new geographies, imbuing them with fresh
perspectives and new, universal meanings.
Hashmi has been awarded residencies at Art-Omi in Omi and at the
Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, both in New York, where she
eventually settled. In 1985 and in 1990 Hashmi was awarded the New
York Fine Art Fellowship in the printmaking category. In addition
Hashmi has taught at Bennington College, Cornell University and the
University of California in Santa Cruz.
Her solo shows include two retrospectives, Silent Soliloquy at Bodhi
Art, Singapore (2006) and Counting 1977-2005, at Bose Pacia Modern,
New York (2005); and other like Cities, Countries and Borders at
Chemould Gallery in Mumbai and Chawkandi Gallery in Karachi, (2004);
Maps, Homes, and Itineraries at Gallery Lux in San Francisco (2003);
Home is a Foreign Place at Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison
(2002); Homes I Made at the Faculty Gallery, University of California,
Santa Cruz (1994); and House with Four Walls at the Bronx Museum of
the Arts, New York (1992). In addition, her work has been featured in
several group shows 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 Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.
The artist lives and works in New York.
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