Exhibitions
Selected group exhibitions
Group exhibitions place Zarina’s work within wider conversations about abstraction, feminism, migration, language, paper, and place.
Two chronologies
Solo and group exhibitions
The two views share one researched chronology while preserving the distinction between Zarina’s solo presentations and exhibitions made in conversation with other artists.
Solo exhibitions
A practice seen in depth
Follow solo presentations from Zarina’s earliest exhibitions through major retrospectives and late-career surveys.
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Group exhibitions
The work in conversation
Trace Zarina’s work through exhibitions of abstraction, paper, feminism, migration, cartography, and South Asian modernism.
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Selected exhibitions
The chronology traces solo, group, and selling exhibitions across museums, galleries, and cultural institutions worldwide.
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176Group records
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2026–27Fragility, Menil Drawing Institute, HoustonGroup→2026Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70, Part II, Hammer Museum, Los AngelesGroup→2026Mapping Otherwise: Between the Ocean and the Sky, Wallach Art Gallery, New YorkGroup→2026Urdu Worlds, Ishara Art Foundation, DubaiGroup→2026Dialogues & Conversations, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. LouisGroup→2025–26The Presence of Absence, Space118 Art Foundation, MumbaiGroup→2024–25Exils — Regards d’artistes, Louvre-Lens, LensGroup→2019–2020Crossing Lines, Constructing Home: Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MAGroup→2019–2020Home Is a Foreign Place: Recent Acquisitions in Context, Met Breuer, New York, NYGroup→2019–2020Homelands: Art from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, EnglandGroup→2019Altered Inheritances: Home Is a Foreign Place, Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesGroup→2019India’s French Connection: Indian Artists in France, DAG, New York, NYGroup→2019Shadow Lines: Experiments with Light, Line and Liminality, Shrine Empire, New Delhi, IndiaGroup→2019The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Displacement, Phillips Collection, Washington, DCGroup→2018–2019Inhabiting the Mediterranean, IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, SpainGroup→2018Beyond Transnationalism: The Legacy of Post Independent Art from South Asia, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, IndiaGroup→2018Débris-collages : récupérer, assembler et reconstruire, Lille métropole musée d'art moderne d'art contemporain et d'art brut (LaM), Villeneuve d'Ascq, FranceGroup→2018Dialectics of Entanglement: Do We Exist Together ?, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NYGroup→2018The House Imaginary, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CAGroup→2018Planetary Planning, Dhaka Art Summit, Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, BangladeshGroup→2017–2018Alchemy: Transformations in Gold, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA; Akron Art Museum, Akron, OHGroup→2017–2018Art and Space, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, SpainGroup→2017–2018Thirty Works for Thirty Years, Menil Collection, Houston, TXGroup→2017The 10 Year Hustle, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, IndiaGroup→2017Exhibition 1, Institute of Arab and Islamic Art, New York, NYGroup→2017Le Féminin Demeure, Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris, FranceGroup→2017Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions: South Asian Art in the Diaspora, Asia Society, New York, NYGroup→2017On Line Dot, Japan Foundation, New Delhi, IndiaGroup→2017Passion de l’art: Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger depuis 1925, Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, FranceGroup→2017Popcorn: design, art et cinéma, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Saint-Etienne, FranceGroup→2017The Restless Earth/ La Terra Inquieta, La Triennale di Milano, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, ItalyGroup→2017Summer of 2017, 1x1 Gallery, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesGroup→2017Unmoored Geographies, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KSGroup→2017Whispers from the Earth, Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris, FranceGroup→2016–2017Archaeology of the Present: Museum Collection, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Saint Étienne, FranceGroup→2016–2017Workshop and Legacy: Stanley William Hayter, Krishna Reddy, Zarina Hashmi, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NYGroup→2016Built/World, Savannah College of Art and Design Museum, Savannah, GAGroup→2016Le Contemporain dessiné. Parcours aux Arts Décoratifs: Drawing Now Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, FranceGroup→2016Dialogue VIII, Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris, FranceGroup→2016Getting Across: An Exhibition on Borders, Goethe Institute/ Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi, IndiaGroup→2016The Journey is the Destination: The Artist’s Journey between Then and Now, Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, CSMVS, Mumbai, IndiaGroup→2016We Refugees: Of the Right to Have Rights, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, GermanyGroup→2015Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center, Los Angeles, CAGroup→2015Carte Blanche to Luhring Augustine, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, FranceGroup→2015Constructs | Constructions, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, IndiaGroup→2015Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, Tannery Arts, London, EnglandGroup→2015Formal Relations, Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, NYGroup→2015Neither Here nor There: Borders and Mobility in Contemporary Art, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MOGroup→2015Organic Sculpture, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, EnglandGroup→2015Possibilities of Paper: Select Works by Lucas Artists Fellows (2005–2015), Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CAGroup→2014 – 2015Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence, Menil Collection, Houston, TXGroup→2015 – 2016Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva, SwitzerlandGroup→2014Advance through Retreat, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, ChinaGroup→2014Artevida, Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilGroup→2014Beyond Modern: Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Morgan Library and Museum and the Menil Collection, Menil Collection, Houston, TexasGroup→2014Dialogue VI, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, FranceGroup→2014Drawing 2014: Seven Decades of Indian Drawings, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, IndiaGroup→2014SABZA O GUL, Chawkandi Art, Karachi, PakistanGroup→2014Trajectories: 19th–21st Century Printmaking in Pakistan and India, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab EmiratesGroup→2014Zameen, Art District XIII, Lado Sarai, New Delhi, IndiaGroup→2013Beyond Belief—100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern Art—Highlights from SFMOMA’s Collection, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CAGroup→2013Black Sun, Devi Art Foundation, Delhi, IndiaGroup→2013Companionable Silences, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FranceGroup→2013Dialogue V, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, FranceGroup→2013Matter and Memory, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, FranceGroup→2013Sculptrices, Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, FranceGroup→2012–2013Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984–2012Venues: Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan; Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum, Naha, Japan; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan; Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, JapanGroup→2012–2014Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive SpaceVenues: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NCGroup→2012Modernist Art from India: Approaching Abstraction, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NYGroup→2011Contemporary Galleries: 1980–Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NYGroup→2011Dialogue III, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, FranceGroup→2011Dialogue IV, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, FranceGroup→2011Drawn from Life, a Green Cardamom project, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, EnglandGroup→2011Everyone Agrees: It’s About to Explode, India Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, ItalyGroup→2011Home Spun, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi, IndiaGroup→2011Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern and Contemporary Art from India, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CAGroup→2011Serpentine Pavilion Symposium, Serpentine Gallery, London, EnglandGroup→2011Si l’espace n’était qu’une dimension intérieure [What if space was only an inside notion], Abbaye St André, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Meymac, Meymac, FranceGroup→2011Untitled, 12th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, TurkeyGroup→2010A Collection, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, IndiaGroup→2010Dialogue I, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, FranceGroup→2010–2011Hand, Voice & Vision: Artists’ Books from Women’s Studio Workshop, Grolier Club, New York, NYGroup→2010Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NYGroup→2010Orientations: Trajectories in Indian Art, Foundation De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, BelgiumGroup→2010Twenty Five, Luhring Augustine, New York, NYGroup→2009The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia 1860–1989, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NYGroup→2008Drawn from Life: Drawing Space, Green Cardamom, London, EnglandGroup→2008Everywhere Is War (And Rumours of War), Bodhi Art, Mumbai, IndiaGroup→2008Expansion–Résonance, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, FranceGroup→2008Fault Lines, Bodhi Art, Mumbai, IndiaGroup→2008Fluid Structures, Vadera Art Gallery, New Delhi, IndiaGroup→2008Frontlines: Notations from the Contemporary Indian Urban, Bodhi Berlin, Berlin, GermanyGroup→2008Gouge: The Modern Woodcut, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center, Los Angeles, CAGroup→2008India moderna, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, SpainGroup→2008A Year in Exhibitions / Annual Report, 7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South KoreaGroup→2007 – 2009WACK! Art and the Feminist RevolutionVenues: The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CanadaGroup→2006Back to the Future, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, IndiaGroup→2006Footprints—Women in Printmaking, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, IndiaGroup→2006Making of Divinity, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, IndiaGroup→2006Works by Mehlli Gobhai, Nasreen Mohamedi & Zarina Hashmi, Bombay Art Gallery, Mumbai, IndiaGroup→2005Crossovers and Rewrites: Borders over Asia, World Social Forum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto Alegre, BrazilGroup→2005–2008Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary CulturesVenues: Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN; John J McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH; Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA; Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, ILGroup→2004 – 2005Subtlety—MinimallyVenues: Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India; Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, IndiaGroup→2003Fresh Talk Revisited: New York Artists from Fresh Talk / Daring Gazes, Conversations on Asian American Art, Asian/Pacific/American Institute, New York, NYGroup→2002From the Two Pens: Line and Color in Islamic Art, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MAGroup→2002Reflections at a Time of Transformation: American Muslim Artists Reach Out to New Yorkers, Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York, NYGroup→2001Fifth Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Prints. Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts, Bhopal, IndiaGroup→1999Icons of the Millennium, Lakeeren—The Contemporary Art Gallery, Mumbai, IndiaGroup→1998Ada or Ardor, Nature Morte, New Delhi, IndiaGroup→1998Asian American Artists / Cross Cultural Voices, Stony Brook University Art Gallery, Stony Brook, NYGroup→1998Connections, Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza College, Cupertino, CAGroup→1997India and Pakistan Contemporary Prints, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, EnglandGroup→1997Out of India: Contemporary Art of the South Asian Diaspora, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NYGroup→199625 Years of Feminism/ 25 Years of Women’s Art, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, The State University of New York, New Brunswick, NJGroup→1996Asian Fusion / Contemporary Asian American Art, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, Brookville, NYGroup→1996Mini Print ’96, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, IndiaGroup→1995Arts and Letters, June Kelly Gallery, New York, NYGroup→1995Third Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Prints, Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts, Bhopal, IndiaGroup→1994 – 1996Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American ArtVenues: Asia Society Galleries, New York, NY; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Honolulu Academy of Fine Arts, Honolulu, HI; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TXGroup→1994A Celebration of Asian / Pacific American Arts, Tweed Gallery, New York, NYGroup→1994International Print Triennial and Intergrafica, Kraków, PolandGroup→1994Lord, This Black Woman’d Rather Paint Than Talk: Celebrating the Life and Work of Vivian E. Browne, Adobe Krow Archives, Bakersfield, CAGroup→1993Artists Books, Harper Collins, New York, NYGroup→1993Hopes and Dreams: Celebrating the Spirit of Immigration, Tweed Gallery, New York, NYGroup→1993Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, HIGroup→1992From Bonnard to Baselitz: From Print Collection, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, FranceGroup→1992Norwegian International Print Triennial, Fredrikstad, NorwayGroup→1991The Abstract / Abstraction Show, Foreman Gallery, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NYGroup→1990Memory/Reality, Ceres Gallery, New York, NYGroup→1990USA Graphics, Grafiska Sällskapet, Stockholm, SwedenGroup→1989Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Prints, Bhopal, IndiaGroup→19881ère triennale mondiale d’estampes petit format, A.M.A.C. Association Mouvement d'Art Contemporain, Chamalieres, FranceGroup→1988Art for Cry, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay, IndiaGroup→1988Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta, IndiaArchive note: Exhibition title is not recorded in the family archive source.Group→1988College of Art, Talik Marg, New Delhi, IndiaArchive note: Exhibition title is not recorded in the family archive source.Group→1988Karnataka Chitra Kala Parishath, Bangalore, IndiaArchive note: Exhibition title is not recorded in the family archive source.Group→1988–1990Coast to Coast: A Women of Color National Artists’ Book ProjectVenues: Diverse Works Gallery, Houston, TX; The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH; DePauw University Art Museum, Greencastle, IN; The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY; The University of Michigan School of Art Museum, Ann Arbor, MI; The Radford University Flossie Martin Gallery, Radford, VA; The Eubie Blake Center and The Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, MD; Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL; The Jamaica Arts Center, Queens, NYGroup→1988Dwelling, 56 Bleecker Gallery Ltd, New York, NYGroup→1988Forty Years, Robert Blackburn and the Printmaking Workshop, Metro-Dade Cultural Center, Miami, FLGroup→1988The Language of Form: The Form of Language, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NYGroup→1986Fathers, Asian Arts Institute, New York, NYGroup→1986The Heroic Female: Images of Power—Works by Women Artists Affiliated with NYFA/Women’s Center for Learning, Ceres Gallery, New York, NYGroup→1986Through a Master Printer: Robert Blackburn and the Printmaking Workshop, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SCGroup→1985Cornell University Department of Art Faculty Exhibition, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NYGroup→1985Ripe Fruit, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S.1, Long Island City, NYGroup→19841984/1985 Women Artists Series, Mabel Smith Douglass Library, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJGroup→19841984: Big Brother Is WatchingVenues: Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; Women’s Graphic Center, Los Angeles, CA; Local 1734 Gallery, Washington, DC; New York Feminist Art Institute, New York, NYGroup→1984Dimensional Paper: Second National Invitational Exhibition, Salisbury State College, Salisbury, MDGroup→1984Heresies Benefit: 50 Women Choose 50 Women, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NYGroup→1984Paper Transformed, A National Exhibition of Paper Art, Indiana State University, Terra Haute, INGroup→1984Paperworks: A National Invitational, Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WAGroup→1983Cast Paper: Judith Ingram & Zarina, Delaware Art Museum—Downtown Gallery, Wilmington, DEGroup→1983Exchange of Sources: Expanding Powers, Stanislaus State College Art Gallery, Turlock, CAGroup→1983Hand Made Paper: Major Medium, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PAGroup→1983India: A World in Transition, California State University, East Bay, Hayward, CAGroup→1983Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, Amsterdam, the NetherlandsArchive note: Exhibition title is not recorded in the family archive source.Group→1983Sculptural Paper, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CTGroup→1982An Asian Vision: Identity and Conflict: 6 Asian Printmakers, Fred Parker Giles Gallery, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KYGroup→1982Indian Artists Abroad, Gallery Chemould, Bombay, IndiaGroup→1982Paper Pieces, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PAGroup→1982Papermaking USA, American Craft Museum, New York, NYGroup→1982The New Explosion: Paper Art, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, NYGroup→1981Architectural Drawings, Ceramics, One of a Kind Prints and Paper, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VTGroup→1981Installations in the Five Elements, Kenkeleba House, New York, NYGroup→1981Paper: Painted, Printed, Plyed, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CAGroup→1981Transformations: Women in Art 70’s–80’s, New York Coliseum, New York, NYGroup→1980Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NYGroup→1980Rag Suite: A Women’s Studio Workshop Exhibition of Handmade Paper, Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NYGroup→19781978 Invitational, SOHO20 Gallery, New York, NYGroup→1978Contemporary Artists of India, Alternative Center for International Art, New York, NYGroup→1978Contemporary Indian Artists, New India House, New York, NYGroup→1975Director’s Choice: 5 Printmakers, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NYGroup→1974Biennale of Prints, Tokyo, JapanGroup→1971Biennale of Graphics, Ljubljana, YugoslaviaGroup→1967S. W. Hayter et l’atelier 17, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, BelgiumGroup→1966Exposition de gravures et de lithographies contemporaines, Galerie Altair, Brussels, BelgiumGroup→