Zarina

Biography Zarina Rashid was born on 16 July 1937 in Aligarh, India, to Sheikh Abdur Rashid, faculty at Aligarh Muslim University, and Fahmida Begum, a homemaker. Zarina earned a degree in mathematics, BS (Honors) from the Aligarh Muslim University in 1958. She then studied a variety of printmaking methods in Thailand, and at Atelier 17 studio in Paris, apprenticing to Stanley William Hayter, and with printmaker Tōshi Yoshida in Tokyo, Japan. She lived and worked in New York City.

During the 1980s, Zarina served as a board member of the New York Feminist Art Institute and an instructor of papermaking workshops at the affiliated Women's Center for Learning. While on the editorial board of the feminist art journal Heresies, she contributed to the "Third World Women" issue.

Zarina died in London from complications of Alzheimer's disease on 25 April 2020.

On 16 July 2023, a Google Doodle inspired by Zarina's works was published to commemorate what would have been her 86th birthday.

Artistry Zarina's art was informed by her identity as a Muslim-born Indian woman, as well as a lifetime spent traveling from place to place. She used visual elements from Islamic religious decoration, especially the regular geometry commonly found in Islamic architecture. The abstract and spare geometric style of her early works has been compared to that of minimalists such as Sol LeWitt. For her Delhi series, she created a woodcut print based on an engraving of the city of Shajahanabad as it stood before the siege of 1857.

Awards and fellowships 2007: Residency, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia 2006: Residency, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, California 2002: Residency, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts 1994: Residency, Art-Omi, Omi, New York 1991: Residency, Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York 1990: Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation grant, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship 1989: Grand Prize, International Biennial of Prints, Bhopal, India 1985: New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, New York 1984: Printmaking Workshop Fellowship, New York 1974: Japan Foundation Fellowship, Tokyo 1969: President's Award for Printmaking, India Zarina: Atlas of Her World Pulitzer Arts Foundation St. Louis, USA

Zarina Luhring Augustine New York, USA Zarina: Weaving Darkness and Silence Gallery Espace New Delhi, India 2017–18 Zarina: Dark Roads Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University New York, USA 2016 Life Lines Gallerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger Paris, France

Zarina: Descending Darkness Luhring Augustine New York, USA Zarina: Folding House Gallery Espace New Delhi, India

Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Centre Los Angeles, USA Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, USA The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, USA

Zarina Hashmi: Noor Galerie Jaeger Bucher Paris, France Zarina Hashmi: Recent Works, Gallery Gallery Espace New Delhi, India Zarina Hashmi: Anamnesis, 1970–1989 The Contemporary Art Gallery Mumbai, India 2009 The Ten Thousand Things Luhring Augustine New York, USA

Directions to My House Shanghai Contemporary 07 Art Fair Shanghai, China Zarina: Paper Houses Gallery Espace New Delhi, India Weaving Memory 1990–2006 Bodhi Art Singapore 2006 Zarina: Silent Soliloquy Bodhi Art Singapore 2005 Zarina Counting, 1977-2005 Bose Pacia New York, USA

Gallery Chemould Mumbai, India Gallery Espace New Delhi, India Chawkandi Gallery Karachi, Pakistan Gallery Rohtas 2 Lahore, Pakistan 2003 Maps, Homes and Itineraries Gallery Lux San Francisco, USA 2002 Home is a Foreign Place Korn Gallery, Drew University Madison, New Jersey 2001 Zarina, Mapping a Life, 1991–2001 Mills College Art Museum Oakland, USA

Gallery Espace New York, USA Chawkandi Gallery Karachi, Pakistan 1994 Homes I Made Faculty Gallery University of California, Santa Cruz 1993 Chawkandi Gallery Karachi, Pakistan 1992 House with Four Walls Bronx Museum of the Arts New York, USA 1990 Zarina: Recent Work; Bronze, Cast Paper, Etchings Roberta English Gallery San Francisco, USA

Art Heritage New Delhi, India Chitrakoot Gallery Calcutta, India Gallery Cymrosa Bombay, India Chawkandi Gallery Karachi, Pakistan 1983 Satori Gallery San Francisco, USA

Zarina: Cast Paper Works Hebert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University Ithaca, New York, USA Zarina: Recent Cast Paper Works Orion Editions New York, USA 1977 Gallery Alana Oslo, Norway 1976 India Ink Gallery Los Angeles, USA

Zarina: Screenprints, Tapestries Triveni Kala Sangam New Delhi, India Serigraphs by Zarina India Ink Gallery Los Angeles, USA 1973 Zarina: Woodprints India Ink Gallery Los Angeles, USA

Chanakya Gallery New Delhi, India Gallery F-15, Jeløya Moss, Norway

Chanakya Gallery New Delhi, India Cultural Centre Ora Athens, Greece 1970 Graphics by Zarina Pundole Art Gallery Bombay, India 1969 Gallery Chanakya New Delhi, India 1968 Kunika-Chemould Art Centre New Delhi, India

The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles organized the first retrospective of her work in 2012. Entitled Zarina: Paper Like Skin, the exhibition traveled to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago.

In 2016, the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented Workshop and Legacy: Stanley William Hayter, Krishna Reddy, Zarina Hashmi that examined their professional collaboration.

During the 2017–18 academic year, Zarina was the Artist-in-Residence at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. The residency culminated in a solo exhibition, Zarina: Dark Roads (6 October 2017 – 2 February 2018) and a publication, Directions to My House.

Examples of her work are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Menil Collection, the National Gallery of Art, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.