Google Doodle: Google is celebrating the 86th birthday of Indian-American artist and printmaker Zarina Hashmi. Tara Anand’s dark doodles express her artwork’s fascination with minimalist geometric and abstract shapes that explore concepts of home, displacement, borders and memory. She is also one of the most prominent artists associated with the Minimalist Movement.
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Who is Zarina Hashmi?
On this day in 1937, Hashmi was born in the small Indian town of Aligarh. Before the partition of India in 1947, she and her four siblings had a happy life. Millions of people were forced to evacuate because of this terrible incident and Zarina’s family was forced to go to Karachi in newly established Pakistan.
At age 21, Hashmi married a young diplomat and began traveling to Bangkok, Paris and Japan, where she was exposed to printmaking, modernism and abstract art trends.
In 1977, Hashmi moved to New York City, where she developed into an ardent advocate for black and female artists. She quickly became a member of Heresies Collective, a feminist magazine that investigates the relationship between politics, art, and social justice.
She later became a professor at the New York Institute of Feminist Art, which provided female artists with equal educational opportunities. She co-curated an exhibition in 1980 at AIR Gallery, titled “Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States.” This groundbreaking exhibition showcases the work of several artists and gives female artists of color a platform.
Hashmi, a proponent of minimalist art, has become famous for her intriguing intaglio prints and woodcuts that blend semi-abstract representations of the houses and cities in which she lived. Inscriptions in her native Urdu and geometric designs influenced by Islamic art are often found in her creations.
Zarina Hashmi: Awards & Recognition
Zarina was one of four artists or art collectives representing India in the first exhibition at the 2011 Venice Biennale. The first retrospective exhibition of her work was held at the Hammer Museum in Berlin. Los Angeles in 2012. The exhibit Zarina: Paper Like Skin has been moved to the Art Institute of Chicago and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Zarina served as Artist-in-Residence for the Asia/Pacific/America Institute at NYU during the 2017–18 academic year. Zarina: Dark Streets, a Personal Performance, and Directions to My Home, a pamphlet, are considered important projects of the residence.
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Year |
prize |
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1969 |
President’s Award for Printing, India |
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1974 |
Japan Foundation Scholarship, Tokyo |
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1984 |
Printshop Fellowship, New York |
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1985 |
New York Foundation for the Arts, New York |
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1989 |
Grand Prize, International Printing Records, Bhopal, India |
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1990 |
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship |
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1991 |
Residency, Women’s Studio, Rosendale, New York |
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1994 |
Residence, Art-Omi, Omi, New York |
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2002 |
Residency, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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2006 |
Residency, Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, California |
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2007 |
Residency, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia |
The idea of the house as an abstract, flexible realm that transcends matter or place was mentioned in Zarina’s art. Her artwork often contains motifs alluding to concepts such as travel, diaspora, and exile. For example, in her Paper Like Skin woodblock print, a thin black line that divides the page from bottom right to upper left meanders upward against a white background. In the meandering and angular division of the page, the line has a geographical feature that represents the boundary between two places or can be a topographic map of an unfinished trip.
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