Sayera Anwar (b. 1995, Pakistan) is a visual artist based in Chicago. She earned her BFA in Visual Arts from Beaconhouse National University, Lahore (2018), and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2024), where she was awarded the prestigious New Artist Society Merit Scholarship.

Anwar’s interdisciplinary practice explores ideas of home, borders, and otherness. Her work began with research into the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan and has since evolved to reflect her experience living as part of the diaspora in the US. She works with photography, painting, film, and natural materials to examine how identity, memory, and place are shaped by political history and displacement.

Over the past three years, Anwar has participated in several group shows and artist residencies, including Duje Pase ton (From the Other Side), commissioned by the South Asian Canadian Histories Association, and Taaza Tareen 13, VASL’s annual residency in Karachi. Her work has been exhibited at Full Circle Gallery (Karachi, 2021), SITE Gallery (Chicago, 2023), and in Convergence in Flux at the South Asia Institute (Chicago, 2024). She is currently the recipient of the Environmental and Social Justice Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center.