Mukhtar Dar

Mukhtar Dar is a Pakistani-born^[1] photographer, painter, filmmaker and activist.

Biography

He became a founding member of the Sheffield Asian Youth Movement in the 1980s in England, and later joined the Birmingham Asian Youth Movement.^[2] Dar has served as Director of Arts at the Drum, an intercultural arts centre in Birmingham,^[1] and in around 2008 served as Director of Arts of the Birmingham-based agency Sampad Arts.^[3]

The Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, which in 2022 displayed a number of photographs and film clips by Dar in a pop-up exhibition about the history of the United Kingdom's Asian and African Caribbean communities' struggles with racism,^[4][5] dubbed Dar "the unofficial artist of the largest grassroots movement in the history of the UK's South Asian communities."^[2]