This current edition is separate from the archival curriculum vitae issued in 2019.
Curriculum vitae
A living career record
A corrected, accessible edition follows Zarina’s work from 1968 to the present. The complete 2019 document remains preserved separately as an archival record.
Current reviewed edition
Curriculum vitae · 2026
Line-checked exhibitions, bibliography, collections, education, awards, and residencies. The current PDF is tagged, searchable, and designed for reading on screen or paper.
Open the current CV Reviewed 15 October 2026Archival record
Curriculum vitae · 2019
The 22-page document preserves the curriculum vitae issued in 2019 unchanged. It remains valuable as a historical record even where the current edition corrects typography or adds later exhibitions and scholarship.
Open the 2019 archival CVExhibition and bibliography entries follow the reviewed public records on zarina.work. Selling exhibitions and auction records are excluded.
Historical place names used in exhibition titles are retained where they form part of the source record; present-day institutional names are used elsewhere.
Education
Training and study
Atelier 17, Paris, France
Bachelor of Science with honors, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
Awards and residencies
Honors across five decades
The reviewed range is 1969–2019; the Taraknath Das Foundation Award restores the latest distinction missing from the archival edition.
Taraknath Das Foundation Award, South Asia Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY
Artist in Residence, Asian/Pacific/American Institute, New York University, New York, NY
Artist in Residence, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
Residency award, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
Artist in Residence, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Residency award, Art Omi, Ghent, NY
Residency award, Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
Grant, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
Grand Prize, International Biennial of Prints, Bhopal, India
Invited artist, International Arts Festival of Asilah, Asilah, Morocco
Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
Fellowship, The Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY
Fellowship, Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
President's Award for Printmaking, India
Solo exhibitions
A practice seen in depth
53 reviewed records, from the 1968 Kunika-Chemould presentation through the 2026 exhibitions in New York and Singapore.
Group exhibitions
The work in wider conversations
176 reviewed records spanning abstraction, feminism, migration, language, paper, place, and print history.
Selected bibliography
Publications and criticism
280 normalized records with stable citations. Each entry opens its permanent page before continuing to an external source.
Monographs and Artist’s Books
Books and Exhibition Catalogs
Periodicals
Selected collections
Where the work lives
Museums, libraries, foundations, archives, and documented private or foundation collections. The full directory explains the kind of evidence available for each institution.
Explore the collections directoryArt Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris, France
British Museum, London, England
Burger Collection, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya - Jehangir Nicholson Collection, Mumbai, India
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi, India
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Ishara Art Foundation and the Prabhakar Collection, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman, Jordan
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
M+ Museum, Hong Kong
Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
National Museum of Qatar, Doha, Qatar
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Savara Foundation for the Arts, New Delhi, India
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Tate, London, England
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Library, New Haven, CT