She spent time in Bangkok, Paris, and Japan, where she became immersed in printmaking and art movements like modernism and abstraction, according to Google.She moved to New York City in 1977 and became a strong advocate for women and artists of colour and taught at the New York Feminist Art Institute, which provided equal education opportunities for female artists.In 1980, Hashmi co-curated an exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery called Dialectics of Isolation An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States.