About
Sayeda Misa Sourour is an interdisciplinary designer, artist, and fabricator based in Chicago IL.
Her practice blends object design and sculpture- where form, material, and cultural converge.
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Approaching design as a process driven art form, making is not just a means to an end, but a central part of the work itself. Sourour works with wood, metal, textiles, and found objects to create pieces that exist between furniture and sculptural story telling.
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Group Exhibitions
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05/2025. Corpora/Simulacrum, Chicago, IL
05/2025 SITE Curated: 30th Anniversary Exhibition/Dittmar 52nd Anniversary, SITE Galleries, Dittmar Memorial Gallery, Chicago IL
05/2025. Graduate Exhibition, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL
05/2025 Isn’t It Weird That Eggs Were Ever Cheap, Bodack Gallery, Chicago, IL
04/2025 Undergraduate Exhibition, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL
06/2024. New Work, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL
07/2024 Box Show, Offcut, Chicago, IL
12/2023 Meter Room, Chicago, IL
07/2023 Anysquared: Home Not Home, Agitator Artist Collective, Chicago, IL
04/2023. ARTBASH, SAIC, Chicago, IL
03/2023 Voices Embodied: Uplifted, Design Museum of Chicago, Chicago, IL
01/2019 Eye Catching, Inspire Art Gallery & Studio, Dunellen, NJ
10/2018 Dark Arts, Above Art Studios, New Brunswick, NJ
09/2018 Present Yourself, Alfa Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
06/2018 Art All Night, Trenton, NJ
Performances
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06/2025 Roaming Troupe, Electric Forest, Rothbury, MI
10/2024 21 Million Kites Ensemble, Elastic Arts Center, Chicago IL
10/2024. Spirit Spirit, Sound Performance, Circle Contemporary, Chicago IL
​09/2024 Don’t Cry Over Spilt Milk, Nonation Lab, Chicago, IL
04/2024 WAVEFORMS, Sound Performance, Asian Improv Arts Midwest, Chicago, IL
04/2024 knock, and the doors of perception shall opened unto you, Slash Slash Sense, Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL
02/2024. Rabbit Foot Puppetry: Tunnel of infatuation, Ring of Fire, Performance, Agitator Artist Collective, Chicago, IL
01/2024 Untitled: Palestine, Chicago Puppet Fest: Nasty, Brutish & Short, Links Hall, Chicago, IL
12/2023 Watchfly, Puppetry Performance, Ratmass, Annoyance Theatre & Bar, Chicago, IL
11/2023 Sound Performance, Nonation Lab, Chicago, IL
11/2023 Sound Performance, Slash Slash Sense, Nonation Lab, Chicago, IL
10/2023 Watchfly, Puppetry Performance, Haunting of Avalon, In The Heart of the Beast Theater, Minneapolis, MN
09/2023 The Muffin Man, Performance, Ratmass, Annoyance Theatre & Bar, Chicago, IL
09/2023 Little Amal, Puppetry Performance, Chicago, IL
09/2023. Sixteen Candles, Performance, Nonation Lab, Chicago, IL
08/2023 The Toaster Continuum: Slash Slash Sense, Performance, Comfort Station, Chicago, IL
07/2023 Performance, Ratmass, Annoyance Theatre & Bar, Chicago, IL
07/2023 Rabbit Foot Puppetry: The Clown Car Rolls On, Puppetry Performance, Cincinnati, OH
07/2023 Untitled: Hair, Performance, Agitator Artist Collective, Chicago, IL
06/2023 Puppetry Performance, Stop Motion Plant, Chicago, IL
​Publications
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11/2024 Sixty Inches From Center Review, Chicago IL
11/2024 Test Strip, Chicago, IL/ Los Angeles, CA
05/2024 Comfort Station Interview, Chicago, IL
Awards & Residencies
2024 Agitator Gallery, Artist In Residency: Rabbit Foot Puppetry, Chicago, IL
2022 Merit based Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL