Mukhtar Dar is a Pakistani-born [1] photographer, painter, filmmaker and activist. 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]
Originally from Pakistan, Mukhtar Dar was trained as a painter and filmmaker before becoming Director of Arts at the Drum.