[2] Shamim Sikder was born on 22 October 1952 in Bogura District, East Bangla Province, Dominion of Pakistan (Now Bangladesh).

[3] Her father Abdur Razzaq Sikder belonged to a prominent Bengali Muslim zamindar family from Chaygaon, Assam.

[2] In 1974, she built a sculpture at Dhaka Central Jail to commemorate the country's founding president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Other notable works include Shoparjito Shadhinota, at the Dhaka University Teacher-Student Centre in 1990 which commemorates the Bangladesh Liberation War.

In addition, she has sculpted over a hundred works around the triangular road surrounding the sculpture, which include busts of eminent personalities such as Rabindranath Tagore, and Kazi Nazrul Islam, and portraits of Yasser Arafat, AK Fazlul Haque, and Maulana Bhasani.

Sikder was also a character in Humayan Ahmed's last novel Deyal in which he chronicles the socio-political crisis in the aftermath of the war of independence of Bangladesh.

In 2022 she returned to Bangladesh with the hopes of preserving her works including reconstructing Zainul Abedin's sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka.