"Break, Rest, Break the cycle of seeing, Magic and awareness arrives."

Nasreen Mohamedi, one of the most significant artists to emerge in post-independence India, created a body of work that demonstrates a unique and ongoing engagement with abstraction. Her minimalist approach not only adds to the rich legacy of South Asian art, but it also calls for the expansion of international modernist narratives. Using pencil and ink gestures on paper, Mohamedi generally explored with organic forms, delicate grids, and energetic, hard-edged lines. Nasreen’s art was both inspired by man-made environments, especially architecture and geometry and underlying structures of nature.

Mohamedi was well known for her line drawings and is now recognised as one of the country's most important contemporary painters. Mohamedi's work has undergone a remarkable rebirth in international critical and public recognition over the last decade.

She received the Atul Gujarat, National Award from Lalit Kala Academy for drawing. She has had exhibits of her work at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi, documenta in Kassel, Germany, and Talwar Gallery, which had her first solo exhibition outside of India in 2003.