Salima Hashmi

Hashmi was born in 1942 in New Delhi, India, but migrated with her family to Lahore during the Partition of India in 1947 and was raised in Lahore. After studying design at Lahore's National College of Arts (NCA), she moved to England in the early 1960s, where she studied at the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham, receiving a diploma in art education in 1965. Hashmi also studied at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) in the US. She has served as Dean of the School of Visual Arts & Design at the Beaconhouse National University Lahore, Pakistan, and has curated several exhibitions, including Hanging Fire at the Asia Society in 2009 and This Night Bitten Dawn at Devi Art Foundation in 2016. Hashmi has been a member of Amnesty International, and Pakistan Peace Initiative to India since the 2009 Mumbai Attack. She is also vice-chair person of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. Hashmi continues to teach, curate, write and work on her artistic practice to this day.