Rokeya Sultana

Rokeya Sultana (born 1958) is a Bangladeshi artist. She serves as a professor at the Department of Printmaking, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka.

Background and education Rokeya Sultana was born 1958 in Chittagong in the then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). She earned her BFA degree in printmaking from the Institute of Fine Arts (now Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka) in 1980 and MFA from Visva-Bharati University in Shantiniketan, India in 1983.

Sultana earned a Fulbright research grant to work as a resident artist for nine months at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, United States in 2012.

Career Sultana's works are exhibited at the Bangladesh National Museum, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Academy of Art University in San Francisco and other places. Her artworks focus on the female form, expressing the joys and struggles of womanhood; depicted in her series Madonna, Bonobibi, Flaming Desire, Fata Morgana and Relation.

Awards Ekushey Padak (2025) Bengal Foundation Award at the 14th National Art Exhibition, Dhaka (1999) Grand Prize at the 3rd Bharat Bhaban Print Biennale, India (1995) Purchase Award at Somerstown Gallery, 4th Biennial, New York (1992)