About The Public Programme

Delve into Zarina’s evocative renderings of home with independent curator Sarah Burney as she guides us through the works on exhibit at Zarina: Directions to My House.

Sharing insights from her role as Zarina’s studio manager, Sarah will shed light on the artist’s intimate relationship with the medium of paper, and her poignant explorations of migration and memory on print.

This tour is exclusive to the first 20 sign-ups only.

About the Curator

Sarah Burney is an independent curator and writer based in New York. Raised in Kuwait and Pakistan, she specializes in contemporary printmaking and contemporary art from South Asia and its diasporas. Her work is grounded in close attention to artists’ materials and processes, and seeks to expand the histories, geographies, and material conversations through which contemporary art is understood.

Burney’s curatorial projects include Krishna Reddy: Heaven in a Wildflower at Print Center New York (2025), Umber Majeed: Digital Handicrafts at 12Gates Arts (forthcoming, 2026), and Chitra Ganesh: Impressions of Mythic Futures at the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, co-curated with Ben Levy (forthcoming, 2027). She has written for Ishara Art Foundation, ArtAsiaPacific, Sotheby’s, Kajal Magazine, Tribe Photo Magazine, Scroll Projects, Aicon Contemporary, Union Pacific Gallery, Praise Shadows Gallery, and Alexis Bittar’s Journal, among others. In 2018, Burney partnered with Zarina to co-author one of the artist’s last major publications, Directions to My House, published by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University.

Burney’s writing and curatorial work are informed by a range of perspectives gained across the field, including her work in Zarina’s studio, the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, and the Guerrilla Girls. She serves on the Board of Trustees of Print Center New York.