Máret Ánne Sara was born in Hammerfest Municipality and grew up in Finnmark county in a reindeer herding family that had its summer pasture on Kvaløya.

[3] Sara's art focuses on Sami identity and livelihood, specifically as it relates to reindeer herding.

[4][6] Sara's work was shown at the Sami Pavilion during the 59th International Art Exhibition of the 2022 Venice Biennial.

[9] "Pile O'Sapmi" was created in 2016 in response to the Norwegian government's culling of reindeer belonging to Sapmi herders.

[1] In 2022 "Pile O’Sapmi" was installed in the vestibule of the newly opened National Museum in Oslo[10] She was nominated for the Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize in 2014 for her Sami-language young adult fantasy novel Ilmmiid gaskkas (Between Worlds).