Timeline

1937
Born Aligarh, India
1958
Bsc (Hons), AMU, Aligarh, India
1964–1967
Atelier-17, Paris, France
Lives and works in New York

Exhibitions

2012–2013
Zarina: Paper Like Skin, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (29/09/12 - 30/12/12), Guggenheim Museum of New York, NY (25/01/2013 - 21/04/13), The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (26/06/13 - 22/09/13), USA
2010
Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, France. (Catalogue) (solo)
2010
Noor, Bodhi Art, New York, NY, USA. (Catalogue) (solo)
2009
The Third Mind – American Artists Contemplate Asia: 1860-1989, Solomon R
2009
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA. (Catalogue)
2008
Expansion-Resonance, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, France. (Catalogue)
2008
Fluid Abstractions: Gender and Abstraction, Vadehra, Delhi, India
2008
Drawn from Life: Drawing Process, Green Cardamom, London, UK
2008
Degrees of Separation, Bodhi Art, Bombay, India
2008
Frontlines: Notations from the Contemporary Indian Urban: BodhiBerlin, Berlin, Germany
2008
Fluid Structures: Vadera Gallery, New Delhi, India
2007–2008
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution: MOCA, Los Angeles, CA, USA Travelling Show (Catalogue)
2007
Best of Artists: Shanghai Contemporary 07 Art Fair, Shanghai, PR China (solo)
2007
Kagaz Ke Ghar (Paper Houses) Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India (solo)
2007
Weaving Memory, Bodhi Art, Mumbai, India (solo)
2007
Double Consciousness: Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2005–2007
Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures: Travelling Show (Catalogue)
2006
Crossings: Contemporary Art of India: Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
2006
Silent Soliloquy: Bodhi Art, Singapore (solo)
2005
Counting: Bose Pacia, New York, NY, USA (solo)
2004
Cities: Countries and Borders: Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India, Gallery Chawkandi, Karachi and Galley Rohtas 2, Lahore, Pakistan (solo)
2003
Maps, Homes and Itineraries: Gallery Lux, San Francisco, CA, USA (solo)
2003
Fresh Talk Revisited: New York Artists from Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Asian/ Pacific/ American Studies Gallery, New York University, NY, USA
2002
From the Two Pens: Line and Color in Islamic Art: Williams College
2002
Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, USA
2002
Home is a Foreign Place: Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, USA (solo)
2001
Mapping a Life, 1991-2001: Mills College Museum, Oakland, CA, USA (solo)
2000
Home is a Foreign Place: Admit One, New York, NY, USA (solo)
2000
Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India (solo)
2000
Chawkandi Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan (solo)
1999
Icons of the Millennium: Lakeeren, Bombay, India
1997
Out of India: Contemporary Art of the South Asian Diaspora: The Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
1997
India and Pakistan Contemporary Prints: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
1995
Arts and Letters: June Kelly Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1995
International Biennial of Prints: Bhopal, India
1994
International Print Triennial and Intergrafica: Krakow, Poland
1994
Asia / America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art: The Asia Society, New York, NY, USA. (Travelling Show)
1994
Homes I Made: Faculty Gallery, UCSanta Cruz, CA, USA (solo)
1992
House with Four Walls: Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, USA (solo)
1992
From Bonnard to Baselitz: From the Print collection of Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
1990
Roberta English Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA (solo)
1988
The Language of Form: The Form of Language: Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1986
Art Heritage, New Delhi, India (solo)
1986
Cymroza Art Gallery, Bombay, India (solo)
1985
Women Artist Series: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA (solo)
1985
Chawkandi Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan (solo)
1984–1985
Women Artist Series: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
1983
Satori Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA (solo)
1982
Making Paper: American Craft Museum, New York, NY, USA
1981
Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY, USA (solo)
1981
Orion Editions, New York, NY, USA (solo)
1980
Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States: A.I.R Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1977
Gallery Alana, Oslo, Norway (solo)
1974
Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi, India (solo)
1972
Chanakya Gallery, New Delhi, India (solo)
1970
Chanakya Gallery, New Delhi, India (solo)
1969
Kunika Gallery, New Delhi, India (solo)

Literature

2007
Wack!: Art and the Feminist Revolution. Edited by Lisa Gabrielle Mark. Published by The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles and The MIT Press.
1999
Women Artists Of Color: A Bio-Critical Source Book to 20th Century Artists in the Americas. Edited by Phoebe Farris (Biographical Essay by Mary-Ann Milford-Lutzker). Published by Greenwood Press.
Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in the Age of Globalization. Edited by Ella Shohat and Coco Fusco. Published by MIT Press and The New Museum. (photograph).
Journeys: Heroes, Pilgrims, Explorers. Edited by Geeti Sen and Molly Kaushal. Published by India International Center/ Penguin Viking/ India.
Fresh Talk / Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art. Co- edited by Elaine H. Kim, Margo Machida, and Sharon Mizota. Published by University of California Press.