Zarina Hashmi Biography
Zarina Hashmi, professionally called Zarina, was an Indian-American artist and printmaker based in New York City.
She developed a passion for art at a younger age, was consistent throughout her career, and rose to become one of the most sought-after artists.
Zarina’s art was influenced by her identity as a Muslim-born Indian woman, her family’s history, as well as a lifetime spent traveling from place to place
She lived in numerous cities including Bangkok, Delhi, Bonn, Los Angeles, Tokyo, New York, and ultimately with her family members in London.
Some of these locations became the subject of a series of woodblock prints; “I do not feel at home anywhere, but the idea of home follows me wherever I go,” she later remarked.
Her work included drawing, printmaking, and sculpture and often featured symbols that call to mind such ideas as movement, diaspora, and exile.
Also, she used visual elements from Islamic religious decoration, especially the regular geometry commonly found in Islamic architecture
Due to her outstanding art and creativity, she was one of four artists to represent India in the country’s first pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011.
Some of her works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
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.
Zarina passed away on 25th April 2020 after a long illness (Alzheimer’s disease), but she died peacefully, in London where she was living with her niece and nephew.
She was a Muslim and was buried the same day she died. On Sunday, 16th July 2023, a Google Doodle inspired by Zarina’s works was published to commemorate her 86th birthday
Zarina Hashmi Age
Zarina Hashmi was on July 16, 1937, in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. She died in 2020 at the age of 83.
Zarina Hashmi Height & Weight
Zarina Hashmi’s height and weight are unknown at this time of writing.
Zarina Hashmi Education
Not much is known about the educational background of the late artist. However, per our checks, Zarina Hashmi bagged a degree in mathematics, BS (Honours) from the Aligarh Muslim University in 1958.
She then studied a variety of printmaking methods in Thailand, and at Atelier 17 studio in Paris, as an apprentice to Stanley William Hayter and Toshi Yoshida in Tokyo, Japan.
Zarina Hashmi Parents
Zarina Hashmi was born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India to her parents; Sheikh Abdur Rashid (father) and Fahmida Begum (mother). Her father was a history professor at the Aligarh Muslim University in India while her mother was a homemaker.
Zarina Hashmi Husband
Zarina Hashmi was married to Saad Hashmi.
In 1958, when Zarina was 21 years, she got married to Saad, a classmate at Aligarh Muslim University.
Saad was in the Foreign Services hence due to his posting, the couple traveled around the world and lived in many different cities, an experience that manifested in Zarina’s art.
Zarina Hashmi Children
Apart from her professional life as an artist, she hardly opened up about her private life hence at this time of writing, there’s no information on whether she had biological or adopted children.
Zarina Hashmi Siblings
She is not the only child of her parents; Sheikh Abdur Rashid (father) and Fahmida Begum (mother). Zarina, the youngest child of her family, had four siblings: Hamid, Saeeda, Aslam, and Kishwar (Rani).
Zarina Hashmi Net Worth
At the time of her death in 2020, Zarina Hashmi had an estimated net worth of about $5 million. She made such an amount from her career as a printmaker, sculptor, and poet
Zarina Hashmi Awards
She won several accolades during her artistic career. She received the President’s Award for Printmaking, India in 1969, a Japan Foundation Fellowship, Tokyo (1974), Printmaking Workshop Fellowship, New York (1988).
Zarina also won the Residency Award at the New York University’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute and Artist in Residence at the University of Richmond, both in 2017.
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