Salima hashmi feminism in art history
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By Pragya Narang
Salima Hashmi is a renowned Pakistani artist, former college professor, anti-nuclear weapons activist, and former caretaker minister in the Najam Sethi caretaker ministry in Punjab, Pakistan. She was the dean of National College of Arts (NCA), where she taught for 30 years, as well as the dean of the School of Visual Arts and Design at the Beaconhouse National University, Lahore.
A respected patron of young artists known to have the capacity to make or break a career, she set up the prestigious Rohtas 2 Gallery (initially named Art Shart) in Lahore.
A recipient of the Pride of Performance Award by the President of Pakistan in 1999, Hashmi also authored a critically lauded book Unveiling the Visible: Lives and Works of Women Artists of Pakistan (2003).
The eldest daughter of the renowned poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz and his British-born wife Alys Faiz, Salima was a speaker at eShe’sSouth Asia Union Summit Led by Women held on October 2-3, 2021, and spoke at the panel “Not Repeating History: Lessons from the Past for the Future“.
The panel discussed why South Asia needs to look objectively at its conflicted past and ensure that the trauma — of Partition, of religious conflict, gender violence, caste oppression — is not repeated.
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Women Artists Manifesto
In 1983, sixteen Lahore-based women artists met privately at Salima Hashmi's home and wrote this manifesto in retaliation of the long-time oppression (which had worsened under General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq's rule) they endured. Due to the political climate at the time, the manifesto was not published.
Abbasi ABIDI, Mehr AFEROZ, Talat AHMED, Veeda AHMED, Sheherezade ALAM, Riffat ALVI, Mamoona BASHIR, Salima HASHMI, Birjees IQBAL, Zubaida JAVED, Jalees NAGEE, Nahid, Qudsia NISAR, Lala RUKH, Rabia ZUBERI
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artist statement/manifesto