Šejla Kamerić was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As a child she lived in Dubai where her father was working for several years as a volleyball coach. Her family returned to Sarajevo in the wake of Yugoslav wars. When the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina started Šejla Kamerić was just 16 years old with a successful career as a model for local and international fashion magazines and brands. She continued her modeling career during the early years of war. During the Siege of Sarajevo, she graduated from the High School for Applied Arts and enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo, graduating from the Graphic Design department after the war. Between 1994 and 1997, she worked with the design group "Trio," group of young artists who (amongst other outstanding projects) designed a series of postcards "Greetings from Sarajevo" (1993) in order to draw international attention to the atrocious situation in the besieged Sarajevo. In 1997, she started to exhibit regularly in Sarajevo and internationally. During this period and until 2000, she was the art director of the advertising agency "Fabrika". Since 2003 she was a member of the "European Cultural Parliament". She was awarded with "DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program Fellowship" in 2007 and continued to live and work in Berlin as a freelance artist. In 2011, Kamerić received "The ECF Routes Princess Margriet Award for Cultural Diversity." Today she lives and works between Sarajevo and Berlin.