Seyhr Qayum is a Kansas City-based multidisciplinary artist, whose practice centers on the intersection of fashion, capital, and gender and post-colonial politics. Through combining large-scale metal-work with figurative drawings and oil paintings, Qayum’s work explores how, when, and where, a woman commands and holds space— seen through the lens of history, memory, and culture.

She is the recipient of the Stutzman Foundation Award for Three-Dimensional Work, 2022, and 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. She is currently an AICAD Post-graduate Teaching Fellow at the Kansas City Art Institute, and studio resident at Charlotte Street, Kansas City, MO.