STPI, a creative workshop and contemporary art gallery in Singapore, is presenting "Zarina: Directions to My House," the largest solo exhibition of prints by the renowned Indian American artist and printmaker Zarina Hashmi (1937-2020) in Southeast Asia. Featuring over 50 works from 12 lenders across multiple cities, the exhibition runs from 6 June to 1 August 2026. It includes prints, printing plates, woodblocks, and tools, offering insight into her process. Public programmes such as curator tours, spoken word performances, collagraphy classes, and cartography workshops accompany the show.
This exhibition matters because Zarina redefined printmaking as a medium for expressing deeply personal and political themes of exile, migration, and home, using minimalist geometric forms and Urdu calligraphy. Her work resonates with universal experiences of identity and belonging, making it especially relevant amid contemporary debates on borders and displacement. By bringing her practice into a Southeast Asian context, STPI highlights how her minimalist vocabulary expanded the formal, political, and emotional possibilities of printmaking.