Alpesh Kantilal Patel

Alpesh Kantilal Patel’s (they, he) art historical scholarship, curating, and criticism reflect their queer, anti-racist, and transcultural approach to contemporary art. Author of Productive Failure: writing queer transnational South Asian art histories (2018), their book Multiple and One: global queer art histories is forthcoming in 2026. They are working on a book based on a series of exhibitions they organized under the theme “Forever Becoming: Decolonization, Materiality, and Trans* Subjectivity” at UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, where they were curator at large in 2023. Editor of Storytellers of Art Histories (2022), a special issue of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art (2021) commemorating Okwui Enwezor, and five exhibition catalogs, they recently contributed to the volumes Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History and A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework (both, 2023). Grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, Headlands, Arts Council England, NEH, Cranbrook Academy of Art, and New York University have supported their research. They chaired the Art in Public Places Committee in Miami Beach, Florida, where they were based for a decade before being appointed an associate professor of global contemporary art and LGBT*Q theory at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University.