Bio

Seyhr Qayum (b. 1991) is a Kansas City-based multidisciplinary artist, whose practice sits at the intersection of adornment, capital, and feminism. She is the recipient of the Stutzman Foundation Award for Three-Dimensional Work, 2022, and is an AICAD Fellow at the Kansas City Art Institute. She has exhibited her artwork internationally, and has been an artist-in-residence at the Wassaic Project, NY, Chautauqua Institution, NY, and Ato Nexus, Tokyo. Qayum holds a B.F.A. from Boston University, MA, and an M.F.A. from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.