Sofia Zengo Papadhimitri

Sofia Zengo Papadhimitri (; 19 March 1915 – 13 June 1976), also simply Sofia Papadhimitri, was an Albanian painter who, with her sister Androniqi Zengo Antoniu, is credited as one of Albania's first professional women painters.

Biography Sofia Zengo was born on 19 March 1915 in Korçë to an artistic family. She was the daughter of Vangjel Zengo, an iconographer, and his wife Vasiliqa. She took her first drawing lessons in Korçë under the supervision of Vangjush Mio. In 1934, she went with her sister to study at the Athens School of Fine Arts. In 1939, she graduated with honours for painting, in the class of the famous Greek impressionist, Spiros Vikatos. During her studies, together with her father, she painted the interior of the Holy Trinity Church in Korçë. Her body of work includes over 300 oil paintings of portraits and landscapes, as well as over 200 charcoal drawings, many of which are held in private collections outside Albania.

An exhibition of her work was organized in 2015 by the National Museum of Fine Arts (Albania). The same year, the city council of Korçë honoured her with post-humous, honorary citizenship. According to art historians Shpresa Tolaj Gjonbalaj and Rregjina Gokaj, her works are part of the canon of second generation of Albanian art.