Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr


Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Jr, alias Faluda Islam, is a Pakistani Lebanese visual and performance artist who currently lives in San Francisco, United States. He is a member of the well-known Pakistani political family, the Bhutto family.

Early life and education

He was born on 1 August 1990 to a Pakistani father and Lebanese mother and is a member of the Bhutto family. He was named after his grandfather and former Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
His father Murtaza Bhutto was a politician and his mother Ghinwa Bhutto leads the Pakistan Peoples Party and is of Lebanese descent.
He received his Scottish MA in History of Art from the University of Edinburgh and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Career

He has worked on creative projects such as Mussalmaan Musclemen, The Third Muslim: Queer and Trans Muslim Narratives of Resistance and Resilience, The Alif Series and Tomorrow We Inherit the Earth. In 2015, he exhibited an artworks titled ‘The Shrine’, which dealt with the subject of marginalised minorities in Pakistan through photo manipulation, portraiture and conceptual art.

Personal life

Bhutto currently lives in San Francisco and belongs to the LGBTQ community.