Maryam Yousif was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1985 and lives in San Francisco, California. She received a Master of Fine Art from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2017, and a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Windsor, Ontario in 2008. Solo and two-person exhibitions include The Pit, Los Angeles; David B. Smith, Denver; Andrew Rafacz, Chicago; Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco and / slash art, San Francisco. Yousif’s work has been featured in exhibitions at venues such as Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles; Museum of Art & Design, New York; The Center for Craft, Asheville, North Carolina and Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, California. She is the recipient of the Fleishhacker Foundation’s Eureka Fellowship and a finalist for SFMOMA’s SECA award and the Museum of Art and Design’s Burke Prize. Yousif is represented by The Pit, Los Angeles.