Sughra Rababi (1922–1994) was an artist from Pakistan. As a pubescent female artiste in the 1940s, she was the first woman to win the All India Painting Competition Award. A versatile painter, designer and sculptor – Rababi was essentially a girl far ahead of her times.
Rababi donated most of the proceeds from sales of her art to support humanitarian causes. In recognition and memory of her artistic and charitable contributions, UNICEF created a Sughra Rababi Fund and the Mayor of San Francisco stated 19 January 1994, as Sughra Rababi Day in San Francisco.
Rababi, an dexterous Pakistani painter, did her graduate studies at the Saranagati School of Art in Karachi and her post-graduate studies at the Shantiniketan Fine Arts University in Bengal, India. Her art career spanned over five decades and she exhibited her works in solo and society exhibitions throughout her life. Her last solo exhibition was held in 1992 in San Francisco, California. Rababi’s art was original and her style, versatile and essentially her own. She was a prolific artist and created landscapes, figurative and calligraphic paintings and used tempera, oil and acrylic as her mediums. Rababi was as a consequence a designer and a sculptor.
Posthumous reproductions of her art are sold to support humanitarian causes.
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