GALLERIE SPLASH AT ART MUMBAI 2026 THREE WOMEN WHO SHAPED INDIAN PRINTMAKING Naina Dalal · Zarina Hashmi · Anupam Sud A print takes shape through decisions about pressure, texture, incision and the space left untouched. In the hands of Naina Dalal, Zarina Hashmi and Anupam Sud, these decisions become inseparable from the lives and experiences their images hold. Gallerie Splash brings together three of India’s foremost women printmakers, each of whom established an independent... Show More

GALLERIE SPLASH AT ART MUMBAI 2026 THREE WOMEN WHO SHAPED INDIAN PRINTMAKING Naina Dalal · Zarina Hashmi · Anupam Sud A print takes shape through decisions about pressure, texture, incision and the space left untouched. In the hands of Naina Dalal, Zarina Hashmi and Anupam Sud, these decisions become inseparable from the lives and experiences their images hold. Gallerie Splash brings together three of India’s foremost women printmakers, each of whom established an independent artistic language through sustained engagement with the medium. Across prints, drawings and other works on paper, their practices reveal how closely technical invention can serve an understanding of human vulnerability, memory and belonging. NAINA DALAL Born 1935, Vadodara In Naina Dalal’s work, an ordinary encounter carries considerable emotional weight. Seated women, families and figures beside animals inhabit a world observed with compassion and an acute awareness of social inequity. The grain of a lithograph or the textured surface of a collagraph gives their presence substance. Her attention rests on how people endure, care for one another and occupy the circumstances of their lives. Recent presentations have brought renewed attention to the breadth of Naina Dalal’s practice: The Silent Fire Within, her retrospective at NGMA Mumbai (2025); An Empathetic Eye, a solo collateral exhibition during the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2025–26); and her solo presentation at Focus Booth A13, India Art Fair (5–8 February 2026). All three were presented by Gallerie Splash and curated by Girish Shahane. ZARINA HASHMI 1937, Aligarh–2020, London For Zarina Hashmi, a house could survive as a plan, an address or a few lines on paper. Her prints give precise form to the unstable relationship between a place and its memory. Works such as Shelters and 8 Shibli Road draw architecture into an intimate enquiry: what remains of home when distance, migration and political borders alter the possibility of return? A mathematics graduate of Aligarh Muslim University in 1958, Zarina Hashmi developed her printmaking through encounters across countries and workshops.Her works belong to major institutional collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. ANUPAM SUD Born 1944, Hoshiarpur In Anupam Sud’s images, bodies share a space without necessarily sharing an understanding. A gesture can suggest tenderness, dependence or an unequal exchange of power. Her command of intaglio allows these ambiguities to accumulate through finely worked surfaces and carefully measured light. The viewer enters a scene whose emotional terms remain open to examination. Anupam Sud studied at the College of Art, New Delhi, from 1962 to 1967, receiving a British Council Scholarship in 1971 to pursue printmaking at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Her recognition includes five Sahitya Kala Parishad Awards between 1976 and 1993 and a printmaking study and travel fellowship from the Centre for International Contemporary Art, New York, in 1990. The Soul (Un)Gendered, organised by DAG in collaboration with KNMA in New York in 2019–20, and Between Vows and Words at KNMA, New Delhi, in 2022, brought the range and sustained enquiry of her practice into focus. ART MUMBAI 2026 12–15 November 2026 Booth C50 · Mahalaxmi Racecourse, Mumbai Show less