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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 received a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Windsor, Ontario in 2008. Yousif has had solo and two-person exhibitions with David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO (2022), The Pit, Los Angeles, CA (2021), Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, IL (2021), Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2020, 2019), / slash art, San Francisco, CA (2019) and RSF Projects, San Francisco, CA (2017). Yousif!s work has been featured in exhibitions such as Wild Frontiers, The Pit, Los Angeles, California (2021), Dog Days, The Pit, Palm Springs, California (2021), Sleight of Hand, The Center for Craft, Asheville, North Carolina (2020) and The Lands Beyond, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, California (2019). She was a finalist for the Museum of Art and Design!s Burke Prize (2021), and completed an AICAD fellowship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Ceramics Department (2019-2021). She received the Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship Grant in 2023. Her work can be found in the public collections of the Museum of Art and Design and the Denver Art Museum.