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Anber Onar is a Turkish Cypriot artist.

She is one of the pioneers of public interactive performance art in Northern Cyprus. Her projects include Interruptions in 2001, Outside the Projects in 2005. She established, together with Johann Pillai, the cultural space Sidestreets in the capital Nicosia. She participated in the unnamed collective of fifteen Turkish Cypriot artists who organised the one-night exhibition Happening in 2013. She noted that "the lack of discussions in the aftermath" was disappointing. Onar's work inspired later Turkish Cypriot artists, although Esra Plumer Bardak notes that her work can be seen as "more radical examples of how art can arouse political and social reactions by moving into the street, into everyday life and outside the gallery".