Zarina Hashmi

b. 1937

Zarina Hashmi received a BSc degree with honours from Aligarh
Muslim University in 1958 before studying printmaking in India
and abroad. Between 1963 and 1967 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. She has participated
in numerous exhibitions, including The Third Mind: American
Artists Contemplate Asia 1860-1989 at the Guggenheim Museum,
New York, Gouge: The Modern Woodcut at the Hammer
Museum, Los Angeles and WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution,
a travelling exhibition organized by MOCA, Los Angeles.
Hashmi was awarded residencies at Art-Omi in Omi and the
Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York. In 1985 and
1990 Hashmi was awarded the New York Fine Art Fellowship in
printmaking. Hashmi has taught at Bennington College, Cornell
University and the University of California in Santa Cruz. She
lives and works in New York.