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Sughra Raza. Self-portrait On Graffiti In The Rain. June 2023. Digital photograph.
Sughra Raza
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]
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Allison Elizabeth Taylor. Only Castles Burning, 2017. marquetry hybrid on panel. More here, and here.
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Sa’dia Rehman. Allegiance To The Flag on Picture Day, 2018. Canvas, charcoal fiberglass screen, velvet, carbon paper, oil pastels, chalkboard paint, white pencil and ink More here, here, and here.
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Aqui Thami. Resisters, 2018. Poster. More here, and here.
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Misha Japanwala. Breastplate, ca. 2018. More here, here and here.
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Moeen Faruqi. Chamber Dialogue, 2016. More here and here.
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Sughra Raza. Santiago Street Color, Chile, November 2017. Digital photograph.
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Zaneb Beams. Untitled, 2022. Digital photograph. With permission.
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Sughra Raza. NYC, April 2023. Digital photograph.
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Sughra Raza. Untitled. April 1, 2023. Digital photograph.
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Kevin Beasley. Reunion. More here, here, and here.
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Sughra Raza. Untitled. Cambridge, 1999-2000. Acrylic on canvas.
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Sughra Raza. Just a Street Corner. Boston, 2022. Digital photograph.
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Sughra Raza. Pavement Expressionism. June 2014. Digital photograph.
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Ntozake Shange, right, with Janet League in her play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” 1976. Bettmann/Getty Images More here, here, and here.
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Njideka Akunyili Crosby. Still You Bloom in This Land of No Gardens, 2021. Acrylic, photographic transfers, colored pencil, and collage on paper. More here, here, and here.
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Sughra Raza. Untitled. Rwanda, January 2023. Digital photograph.
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Ada Beams. Landscape Somewhere in France, 2022. Digital photograph. With permission from the artist.
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Sughra Raza. Early Winter Shapes, January 2022. Digital photograph.
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Flor Garduno. Basket of Light, Sumpango, Guatemala. 1989. More here and here. Thanks to Lauren Shaw for showing me this work!