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.

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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

The idea of home

Critical writing on exile, belonging, memory, and the recurring architecture of home.

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03

Language

Zarina’s Urdu world

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

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04

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 Modernism2026Other Worlds of Light: Zarina’s Beyond the StarsKelly Ma · ArtAsiaPacific2026Zarina Brought the World to New YorkAruna D’Souza · Hyperallergic2026Zarina: Beyond the StarsWallace Ludel · The Brooklyn Rail2025Drawing Room: Why Narayan Chandra Biswas Loves Zarina Hashmi’s ArtNoor Anand Chawla · Hindustan Times2024Notes on a Fragment: Zarina’s Dividing LineAnanya Jahanara Kabir · Art History2021Zarina and the Idea of HomeDeepa Bhasthi · ArtReview Asia2020Remembering Zarina, 1937–2020MoMA Magazine2020Zarina Hashmi, Artist of a World in Search of Home, Dies at 82Holland Cotter · The New York Times2020Guggenheim Conservator Jeffrey Warda on Zarina and Her “Drawings Made of Shadow”Jeffrey Warda · Guggenheim2019Mapping the Dislocations: Zarina’s MapsMary-Ann Milford-Lutzker · Stanford Libraries2019With Paper, Zarina Opens a Window onto the CosmosMurtaza Vali · Frieze2019Far from HomeZehra Jumabhoy · Artforum2013Dividing Lines and the Art of the ExileVibhuti Patel · The Wall Street Journal