Yoosef Mohamadi is an interdisciplinary artist, graphic designer, and animation director from Ciwanro (Javanrud), Rojhelat (Eastern Kurdistan), currently based in the United States.

His practice spans animation, sculpture, installation, and new media, exploring the intersections of memory, identity, power, and the politics of history. Drawing from his lived experiences growing up in a region shaped by war, displacement, and assimilation, Mohamadi critically examines cultural erasure, media manipulation, and the fragility of memory.

 

Through his work, he investigates how dominant narratives shape personal and collective histories, using materials with symbolic properties—flexibility, fragility, and transparency—as metaphors for erasure, resistance, and the instability of truth. Storytelling and narrative structure are central to his practice, enabling him to create layered, evolving works that unfold over time and invite viewers to question, remember, and emotionally engage with suppressed histories.

 

Yoosef holds an M.F.A. in Studio Art from the University of Delaware and an M.A. in Animation from Soore University in Tehran. His work has been featured in several group exhibitions internationally. In addition to his studio practice, he has taught animation and graphic design in Kurdistan, Tehran, and at the University of Delaware.

His practice continues to investigate the manipulation of history and the spaces where memory, material, and resistance converge.

''The last image I remember is of a child holding his mother’s hands beneath the shadow of a low-flying fighter jet over the city. They stood in the street, holding their breath and looking up at the sky. And that was just part of it.''