Exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions
Solo presentations place sustained attention on the development of Zarina’s materials, forms, and ideas.
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.
53Solo records
176Group records
1Selling exhibitions
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2026Directions to My House, STPI, SingaporeSolo→2026Beyond the Stars, Luhring Augustine Tribeca, New YorkSolo→30 Jan 2020–10 Apr 2021Zarina: A Life in Nine Lines, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New DelhiSolo→2019–2020Zarina: Atlas of Her World, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MOSolo→2018Zarina, Luhring Augustine, New York, NYSolo→2018Zarina: Weaving Darkness and Silence, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, IndiaSolo→2017–2018Zarina: Dark Roads, Asian/Pacific/American Institute, New York University, New York, NYSolo→2016Life Lines, Gallerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris, FranceSolo→2014Zarina: Descending Darkness, Luhring Augustine, New York, NYSolo→2014Zarina: Folding House, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, IndiaSolo→2012–2013Zarina: Paper Like SkinVenues: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, ILSolo→2011Noor, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, FranceSolo→2011Zarina Hashmi: Anamnesis 1970–1989, Lakeeren—The Contemporary Art Gallery, Mumbai, IndiaSolo→2011Zarina Hashmi: Recent Works, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, IndiaSolo→2009The Ten Thousand Things, Luhring Augustine, New York, NYSolo→2007Directions to My House: Shanghai Contemporary 07, Best of Artists, Shanghai, ChinaSolo→2007Paper Houses, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, IndiaSolo→2007Weaving Memory 1990–2006, Bodhi Art, Mumbai, IndiaSolo→2006Silent Soliloquy, Bodhi ArtSolo→2005Counting, Bose Pacia, New York, NYSolo→2004Cities, Countries and Borders, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India; Gallery Espace, New Delhi, IndiaSolo→2004Chawkandi Art, Karachi, PakistanSolo→2004Rohtas Gallery 2, Lahore, PakistanSolo→2003Maps, Homes and Itineraries, Gallery Lux, San Francisco, CASolo→2002Home Is a Foreign Place, Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison, NJSolo→2001Mapping a Life, 1991–2001, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CASolo→2000Home Is a Foreign Place, Admit One, New York, NYSolo→2000Gallery Espace, New Delhi, IndiaSolo→2000Chawkandi Art, Karachi, PakistanSolo→1994Homes I Made, Faculty Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CASolo→1993Chawkandi Gallery, Karachi, PakistanSolo→1992House with Four Walls, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NYSolo→1990Zarina: Recent Work, Bronze, Cast Paper, Etchings, Roberta English Gallery, San Francisco, CASolo→1986Zarina Hashmi: Paper Works, Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi, IndiaSolo→1986Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta, IndiaSolo→1986Cymroza Art Gallery, Bombay, IndiaSolo→1985Zarina, Chawkandi Gallery, Karachi, PakistanSolo→1985Women Artist Series, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJSolo→1985Gallery, San Francisco, CAArchive note: Exhibition title and gallery name are not recorded in the family archive source.Solo→1981Zarina: Cast Paper Works, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NYSolo→1981Zarina: Recent Cast Paper Works, Orion Editions, New York, NYSolo→1977Zarina Hashmi, Galleri Alana, Oslo, NorwaySolo→1976Zarina, India Ink Gallery, Los Angeles, CASolo→1974Zarina, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi, IndiaSolo→1974Zarina, India Ink Gallery, Los Angeles, CASolo→1973Zarina: Woodprints, India Ink Gallery, Los Angeles, CASolo→1972Zarina, Gallery Chanakya, New Delhi, IndiaSolo→1972Zarina, Galleri F 15, Jeløy, NorwaySolo→1971Zarina, The Cultural Center Ora, Athens, GreeceSolo→1971Zarina, Gallery Chanakya, New Delhi, IndiaSolo→1970Graphics by Zarina, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay, IndiaSolo→1969Zarina, Gallery Chanakya, New Delhi, IndiaSolo→1968Zarina, Kunika-Chemould Art Centre, New Delhi, IndiaSolo→