Yosef was born in Ras al-Ayn,[5] to a Syrian Kurdish father and an Armenian Christian mother.[6] His family immigrated to Sweden where he studied painting in Pernby School of Painting in Stockholm between 2004 and 2006, then moved to Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm[7] where he graduated with a BA in Fine Arts in 2009. He earned an MA in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins, London in 2011.