Seyhr Qayum is a multidisciplinary artist, whose practice sits at the intersection of politics, capital, and fashion. 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 has exhibited her work internationally, and been an artist-in-residence at the Wassaic Project, NY; Chautauqua Institution, NY; and Ato Nexus, Tokyo, as well as studio resident at Charlotte Street, Kansas City, MO. Qayum is a Stutzman Foundation Award for Three-Dimensional Work recipient, 2022, and former AICAD Post-graduate Teaching Fellow at the Kansas City Art Institute, MO. She is currently a Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA. Qayum holds a B.F.A. from Boston University, MA, and an M.F.A. from Pratt Institute, NY.