Mukhtar Dar is a Pakistani-born photographer, painter, filmmaker and activist.

Biography

He became a founding member of the

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Asian Youth Movement in the 1980s in England, and later joined the

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Asian Youth Movement. Dar has served as Director of Arts at the Drum, an intercultural

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in Birmingham, and in around 2008 served as Director of Arts of the Birmingham-based agency Sampad Arts. The Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, which in 2022 displayed a number of photographs and film clips by Dar in a

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about the history of the United Kingdom's Asian and African Caribbean communities' struggles with racism, dubbed Dar "the unofficial artist of the largest grassroots movement in the history of the UK's South Asian communities."

References

20th-century Pakistani male artists 21st-century Pakistani male artists 20th-century Pakistani painters Pakistani photographers Anti-racism activists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{Pakistan-artist-stub