about — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ذُوالفِقّارعلِي ڀُٽو

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (b. Damascus, 1990) is an artist and curator whose work resurrects complex histories in the South Asian, South West Asian and North African region. In the process he unpacks the intersections of religion, storytelling, futurity and ecology through a multi-media practice rooted in printmaking, textile and performance. Bhutto’s current project, Bulhan Nameh seeks to understand the cultural, ecological and social history of the Indus River through the eyes of one of Pakistan’s most elusive animals, the Indus River Dolphin. He has shown work and curated exhibitions globally, as well as spoken at Columbia University, UC Berkeley, NYU, Stanford and the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture. Bhutto is currently based in Karachi, Pakistan and received an MAH in History of Art from the University of Edinburgh in 2014 and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2016.