Zarina Hashmi
(1937 - 2020)
Born in Aligarh in 1937, 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...
Born in Aligarh in 1937, 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 passed away on 25th April, 2020.
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8-9 APRIL 2020
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Rs 3,00,000 - 5,00,000
$4,055 - 6,760
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Rs 7,43,880
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ARTWORK DETAILS
Zarina Hashmi
Duststorm (Home is a Foreign Place) Signed and dated 'Zarina 99' (lower right); inscribed 'Duststorm' (lower centre); further inscribed 10/25 (lower left) 1999 Woodcut on kozo paper mounted on somerset paper pasted on mountboard
Print size: 8.25 x 5.75 in (20.8 x 14.6 cm) Sheet size: 16 x 13 in (40.5 x 33.2 cm)
Tenth from a limited edition of twenty-five
PROVENANCE Property from a Prominent Private Collection, New Delhi
EXHIBITED:Zarina: Mapping a Life, 1991-2001 , Oakland: Mills College Art Museum, 4 November - 21 December 2001 (another from the edition)Home is a Foreign Place , Mumbai: The Guild Art Gallery, 13 June - 2 July 2005 (another from the edition)Zarina: Weaving Memory, 1990-2006 , Mumbai: Bodhi Art, 2007 (another from the edition)The Ten Thousand Things , New York: Luhring Augustine, 20 June - 31 July 2009 (another from the edition)Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now , New York: MoMA, 5 May - 16 August 2010 (another from the edition)Everyone Agrees: It's About to Explode , Venice: India Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 4 June - 27 November 2011 (another from the edition)Zarina: Paper Like Skin , Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, 29 September - 30 December 2012; New York: Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, 25 January - 21 April 2013; Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 26 June - 22 September 2013 (another from the edition)Contemporary Galleries: 1980-Now , New York: MoMA, 16 November 2011 - 9 February 2014 (another from the edition)Altered Inheritances: Home is a Foreign Place , Dubai: Ishara Art Foundation, 18 March - 13 July 2019 (another from the edition)Home is a Foreign Place: Recent Acquistions in Context , New York: The Met Breuer, 19 April 2019 - 21 June 2020 (another from the edition)Zarina: Atlas of Her World , St. Louis: Pulitzer Arts Foundation, 6 September 2019 - 2 February 2020 (another from the edition)Zarina: A Life in Nine Lines , New Delhi: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), 30 January - 30 June 2020 (another from the edition) PUBLISHED: Roobina Karode, Geeti Sen, Margo Machida et al, Mapping a Life: 1991-2001 , Oakland: Mills College Art Museum, 2001, p. 28 (another from the edition) Joyce Brodsky, Sharmistha Ray et al, Zarina: Weaving Memory, 1990-2006 , Singapore: Bodhi Art, 2007 (illustrated, another from the edition) Aamir R Mufti, Allegra Pesenti and Ann Philbin, Zarina: Paper Like Skin , Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, University of California, 2012 (illustrated, another from the edition)
Category: Print Making
Style: Abstract