Google Doodle celebrates the 86th birth anniversary of Indian-American artist Zarina Hashmi

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She was born on this day in 1937 in Aligarh

Google paid tribute to Indian-American artist and printmaker Zarina Hashmi on her 86th birth anniversary with a doodle on Sunday. The doodle, which was illustrated by New York guest artist Tara Anand, captures her use of minimalist abstract and geometric shapes to explore the concepts of home, displacement, boundaries, and memory.

In particular, Hashmi is widely recognized as one of the most significant artists associated with the minimalist movement.

She was born on this day in 1937 in Aligarh. She and her four siblings lived an idyllic life until the partition of India in 1947. Zarina’s family was forced to flee to Karachi in the newly formed Pakistan.

Hashmi married a young Foreign Service diplomat and began traveling the world at 21. She has spent time in Bangkok, Paris and Japan where she immersed herself in printmaking and art movements such as modernism and abstraction.

Hashmi moved to New York City in 1977 and became a strong advocate for black women and artists. She soon joined the Heresies Collective, a feminist publication that explored the intersection of art, politics and social justice.

She then went on to teach at the New York Feminist Art Institute, which provided equal educational opportunities for female artists. In 1980, she co-curated an exhibition at the AIR Gallery titled Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States. This groundbreaking exhibition showcased the work of several artists and provided a space for female artists of color.

Part of the Minimalism Art movement, Hashmi became internationally known for her striking woodcuts and intaglio prints which combine semi-abstract images of houses and cities in which she had lived. Her work often contained inscriptions in her native Urdu and geometric elements inspired by Islamic art.

People around the world continue to contemplate Hashmi’s art in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other distinguished galleries .

She died in London from complications of her Alzheimer’s disease on April 25, 2020.

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