Sayera Anwar finished her Master’s in Fine Arts in 2024 from The Art Institute of Chicago, where she was granted the New Artist Society Merit Scholarship award. She has been nominated and selected for artist residencies such as the ‘Dūje Pāse toñ’ (From the Other Side) and VASL’s Taaza Tareen’13, in Karachi, Pakistan. Her work has been shown at the Full Circle Gallery in Karachi (2021), the SITE Gallery in Chicago (2023), and Convergence in Flux, South Asia Institute, Chicago (2024). She has recently received an Environmental and Social Justice Fellowship award from Vermont Studio Center, USA. Her work is also part of an upcoming three-person show at the Southeast Museum of Photography at Daytona State College. The exhibition is titled Patterns of Rupture. She frequently posts photographs on her Instagram. Sayera also teaches art to kids at a local school in Chicago.