Androniqi Zengo Antoniu

Androniqi Zengo Antoniu (; 26 May 1913 – 10 February 2000) was an Albanian painter. She is considered to be the first professional woman painter from Albania, along with her sister Sofia Zengo Papadhimitri, and with Vangjush Mio is credited with the introduction of impressionism to the country.

Biography Androniqi Zengo was born on 26 May 1913 in Dardhë, now part of Korçë, less than a year after the Albanian Declaration of Independence, and was the daughter of the icon painter Vangjel Zengo. Her sister Sofia was born in 1915. She graduated with honours in painting and sculpture from the Athens School of Fine Arts. After studying in Paris, she returned to Albania to teach at the Nëna Mbretëreshë Pedagogical Institute. A painter mainly of impressionist portraits and landscapes, as well as icons; her sister was strongly influenced by realism. In 1941 she married the singer Kristaq Antoniu.

During her lifetime, Zengo Antoniu had at least three solo exhibitions. She also took part in various group exhibitions, including one in New York in 1939.

Legacy Zengo Antoniu's surviving body of work consists of over 500 pieces. There are 55 of her works in the collection of the Albanian National Museum of Fine Arts. In 2017, works by her were posthumously presented at documenta 14.

According to art historians Shpresa Tolaj Gjonbalaj and Rregjina Gokaj, her works are part of the canon of second generation of Albanian art.

One of the streets in Tirana's Laprakë district is named after her.