Press & criticism

Writing on Zarina

Recent criticism, historical essays, interviews, reviews, and memorial writing. Begin with a subject pathway or continue to the recent reading list.

Artist voice

Listening to Zarina

Zarina speaks about the images and Urdu words in Home is a Foreign Place.

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Home & displacement

Zarina and the Idea of Home

Deepa Bhasthi’s 2021 ArtReview Asia essay on exile, belonging, memory, and the recurring architecture of home.

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Language

Zarina’s Urdu world

An illustrated exploration of language, translation, poetry, and the emotional geography of Urdu.

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Materials & form

Paper Like Skin

The Hammer Museum’s retrospective archive situates paper, printmaking, sculpture, and abstraction across the career.

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Recent writing

Reviews, essays, and remembrance

Links lead to the original publisher or to a gallery record of the article. The full historical bibliography remains separately searchable.

2026Structure as Measure: Zarina — Beyond the StarsQuiet Modernism↗︎2026Other Worlds of Light: Zarina’s Beyond the StarsKelly Ma · ArtAsiaPacific↗︎2026Zarina Brought the World to New YorkAruna D’Souza · Hyperallergic↗︎2026Zarina: Beyond the StarsWallace Ludel · The Brooklyn Rail↗︎2025Drawing Room: Why Narayan Chandra Biswas Loves Zarina Hashmi’s ArtNoor Anand Chawla · Hindustan Times↗︎2024Notes on a Fragment: Zarina’s Dividing LineAparna Kumar · Art History↗︎2021Zarina and the Idea of Home: What Happens When an Artist Becomes an Exile?Deepa Bhasthi · ArtReview Asia↗︎2020Remembering Zarina, 1937–2020Glenn D. Lowry, Sean Anderson, Christophe Cherix, Rattanamol Singh Johal & Sarah Suzuki · MoMA Magazine↗︎2020Zarina Hashmi, Artist of a World in Search of Home, Dies at 82Holland Cotter · The New York Times↗︎2020Guggenheim Conservator Jeffrey Warda on Zarina and Her “Drawings Made of Shadow”Jeffrey Warda · Guggenheim↗︎2019Mapping the Dislocations: Zarina’s MapsMary-Ann Milford-Lutzker · Stanford Libraries↗︎2019With Paper, Zarina Opens a Window onto the CosmosMurtaza Vali · Frieze↗︎2019Far from Home: Zehra Jumabhoy on the Art of ZarinaZehra Jumabhoy · Artforum↗︎2018Feminism for Me Was About Equal Pay for Equal Work—Not About Burning Bras: Interview with ZarinaSadia Shirazi · MoMA post↗︎2017Seven Questions for Zarina HashmiCourtney A. Stewart · The Metropolitan Museum of Art↗︎2016Zarina’s Abyss and the Veil of the BelovedJoseph N. Newland · The Menil Collection↗︎2015Zarina Hashmi on Arabic CalligraphyThe Artist Project · The Metropolitan Museum of Art↗︎2013Dividing Lines and the Art of the ExileVibhuti Patel · The Wall Street Journal↗︎