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  • Nasreen Mohamedi, untitled, ca. 1975, ink and graphite on graph paper, 7 1/2 x 7 1/2".

    Nasreen Mohamedi, untitled, ca. 1975, ink and graphite on graph paper, 7 1/2 x 7 1/2".

    Nasreen Mohamedi

    Kiran Nadar Museum of Art

    These are exciting times in art history. A wealth of postwar artists who worked at the margins of Euro-America, beyond the Western canon, are being rediscovered, many now receiving their own monographic exhibitions in museums. A special place is being claimed for female artists—one may think of Lygia Pape from Brazil, Gego from Venezuela, and Saloua Raouda Choucair from Lebanon—and the work of the late Indian-Pakistani artist Nasreen Mohamedi (1937–1990) is equally ripe for reconsideration. Born in Karachi, Pakistan, Mohamedi studied at Saint Martins School of Art in London and lived

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