Ammar Abo Bakr is a well-known muralist and graffiti artist in Egypt. His work depicts the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, portraits, Egyptian history, and Egyptian pop culture.
During and shortly after the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, Ammar was busy putting graffiti on anything he could find, and he thus comments the aim of these works: “What we did in Egypt in recent years was not about presenting art, at least it wasn’t to me: We used walls as a newspaper… Me, I was a Fine Arts assistant professor. I left the faculty of arts to report on the revolution in the city’s walls.”
He also believes that the art in Luxor and Cairo should remain out of galleries because that limits who sees it and because art is constantly changing.
He is most known for his Mohamed Mahmoud Graffiti, a collection of graffiti that was painted on several walls in the area surrounding Mohamed Mahmoud street near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.