Tufan Chakma is an Indigenous visual artist from the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), Bangladesh, whose artistic practice confronts the politics of visibility, representation, and power.

Growing up in the CHT, Tufan became increasingly aware of how Indigenous peoples’ lives, histories, and identities were misrepresented, marginalised, or erased from dominant narratives. This awareness led him to question not only what is made visible, but also who controls the act of representation, whose perspectives shape public understanding, and whose stories are systematically left untold.

Through painting, illustration, and animation, Tufan challenges dominant narratives and confronts the structures that shape how Indigenous peoples are seen and understood. For him, art extends far beyond aesthetics; it is a critical practice of questioning power, reclaiming the right to self-representation, and resisting the reduction of complex Indigenous realities to imposed or incomplete images.

His work seeks not simply to make the unseen visible, but to challenge the very conditions that render certain peoples and histories invisible in the first place creating space for Indigenous communities to tell their own stories, on their own terms.