sman Yousefzada is a British-Pakistani artist and writer, born in Birmingham UK, whose work engages with the representation, rupture, and reimagining of the immigrant experience. His work incorporates textiles, print-making, installations, sculpture and performance. Yousefzada has shown at international institutions including: Whitechapel Gallery, London; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; Ringling Museum, Florida; Lahore Museum, Pakistan; and Design Museum, London. Lahore Biennale, Pakistan and Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh.
Recent solo shows include; Queer Feet (2024) at Charleston House, Embodiments of Memory (2023) at the Ceramics Biennale, Potteries Museum in Stoke on Trent and More Immigrants Please (2023) a nationwide series of billboards with Artichoke. His large-scale series of solo interventions What Is Seen and What Is Not at London's V&A in 2022, was commissioned by the British Council in partnership with the V&A. In May 2024 he opens the prelude to Bradford City of Culture 2025 with a solo show at Cartwright Hall.
He is a visiting Professor of Interdisciplinary Practice at the Birmingham School of Art, BCU, a visiting Fellow at the Jesus College, Cambridge University and a Research Practitioner at the Royal College of Art. Yousefzada is also the author of The Go-Between: A Memoir of Growing Up Between Different Worlds (2022), a coming-of-age story described by Stephen Fry as 'one of the greatest childhood memoirs of our time'.