| Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr. | |
| Birth Name: | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto |
| Birth Date: | 1 August 1990[1] |
| Birth Place: | Damascus, Syria |
| Nationality: | Pakistani |
| Alma Mater: | San Francisco Art Institute University of Edinburgh |
| Occupation: | Textile artist |
| Known For: | Wildlife advocacy, LGBT activism |
| Mother: | Ghinwa Bhutto |
| Father: | Murtaza Bhutto |
| Relatives: | See Bhutto family |
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr. (Urdu: {{nq|ذوالفقار علی بھٹو, Sindhi: ذُوالفِقّارعلِي ڀُٽو; born 1 August 1990)[2] [3] is a Pakistani visual artist, performance artist and curator as well as a human rights activist.[4] He is a member of the prominent political Bhutto family, and is the grandson of former President and Prime Minister of Pakistan, and his namesake, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
Bhutto was born on 1 August 1990 into the Sindhi Bhutto family in Damascus, Syria. He is the son of Murtaza Bhutto, a politician who was assassinated when he was six years old, and Ghinwa Bhutto, who leads the Pakistan Peoples Party of Shaheed Bhutto. He has a half-sister, Fatima Bhutto, from his father's first marriage. He is of Pakistani descent from his father and has Lebanese ancestry from his mother's side.[5] [6] Bhutto was named after his grandfather Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the former Prime Minister and President of Pakistan, and is the only male inherent of the Bhutto's family. His grandmother, Nusrat Bhutto, is of Iranian-Kurdish descent. The former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto is his paternal aunt, and her husband and former President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, is his uncle-by-marriage, while his father's brother, Shahnawaz Bhutto, is his uncle. The politician, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, is his first cousin.
Bhutto received his Master of Fine Arts degree in 2016 from the San Francisco Art Institute.[5] [7] He has two undergraduate degrees from the University of Edinburgh.[8]
Bhutto has worked on creative projects such as Mussalmaan Musclemen (2017), The Third Muslim: Queer and Trans Muslim Narratives of Resistance and Resilience (2018), The Alif Series (2019), and Tomorrow We Inherit the Earth (2019).[9] [10] [11] 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.[12] Artist and designer Hushidar Mortezaie has worked with Bhutto and designed some of his performance costumes.
In July 2022, he withdrew his participation from the Goethe Institute Film Fest in solidarity with Palestine, as Palestinian activist Mohammed El-Kurd was not invited.[13] Additionally, writer Mohammed Hanif withdrew from the Goethe Institute conference.
Bhutto currently lives in Karachi, Pakistan, and identifies himself as a queer.[5] [14]