Sughra grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, along with siblings Abbas and Azra (above), and several others. She studied fine arts as an undergraduate, later shifting gears to become a doctor of medicine, specializing in diagnostic radiology. Sughra lives in Boston, Massachusetts, working and teaching at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She feels most excited in a world of images, invention, art and music; and despite Fenway Park floodlights lighting up the sky in her windows, she remains oblivious to the Red Sox battling the Yankees a stone’s throw away. Email: [email protected]
Naotaka Hiro. Untitled (Tide), 2024. Canvas, fabric dye, oil pastel, rope, and grommets. “… Several of the paintings feature something strange: two perfectly round openings in the surface of the work. The Japanese-born, Pasadena-based artist uses these holes to practice a highly intimate kind of artmaking. Collapsing the traditional, arms-length distance between the artwork and…
Jaffer Kolb. Lake Mývatn, October 13th, 12:08 am. Digital photograph. With permission. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Sughra Raza. Under Construction. December 2023. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Hayv Kahraman. Rain Birds Ritual, 2025. Oil, acrylic and flax on acrylic. More here, here, and here. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Benny Andrews. Circle Study #2, 1972. More here, and here. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Sughra Raza. Departure. December 2024. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu (Mongolia). Woman in Ulaanbaatar: Dreams Carried by Wind, 2025. Acrylic on canvas. More here and here. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Sughra Raza. Uncharted Waters. July, 2018. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Sughra Raza. On The Rocks at Lake Champlain. August 22, 2025. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Sughra Raza. Nightstreet Barcode, Kowloon, January 2019. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Junya Ishigami. Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, 2019. Photograph by Sughra Raza, August 14, 2019. “Ishigami’s design takes inspiration from roofs, the most common architectural feature used around the world. The design of the 2019 Serpentine Pavilion is made by arranging slates to create a single canopy roof that appears to emerge from the ground of the…
Rania Matar. Samira, Jnah, Beirut, Lebanon, 2021. Archival pigment print. From the portrait collection of the ICA, Boston. More here and here. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Sughra Raza. Decay Saturated. Vermont, April, 2017. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Gozo Yoshimasu. Fire Embroidery, 2017. “Gozo Yoshimasu’s double-sided work on paper Fire Embroidery explores his response to the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. He embarked on the project out of a deep sense of sympathy and commitment, in pursuit of “poetry possible after March 2011”, without exactly knowing where he was heading. He started…
Sughra Raza. Colorscape, Celestun, Mexico. March 2025. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Sughra Raza. The Visitor. Mexico, March 2025. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Sughra Raza. Light Tricks, Seattle, March, 2022. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Nirmal Raja. Entangled / The Weight of Our Past, 2022. More here, here, and here. Thanks to Sahitya Raja for the introduction. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Sughra Raza. Scattered Color. Italy, 2012. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Sughra Raza. Seeing is Believing. Vahrner See, Südtirol, October 2013. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.