Sayera Anwar (b. 1995, Pakistan) is a Chicago-based artist whose interdisciplinary practice explores themes of home, borders, and otherness. Her work originates from an inquiry into the Pakistan-India Partition and has since expanded to reflect her diasporic experiences. Anwar earned her BFA from Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, in 2018 and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2024, where she was awarded the New Artist Society Merit Scholarship.
She has participated in several artist residencies, including Duje Pase ton (From the Other Side), commissioned by the South Asian Canadian Histories Association, and Taaza Tareen ’13 at VASL, Karachi. Her work has been exhibited at SITE Gallery, Chicago (2023), the South Asia Institute, Chicago (2024), and Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia. She currently works as a teaching artist at Bydiscovery in Chicago.
