Alpesh Kantilal Patel is associate professor of contemporary art and theory at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami. His art historical scholarship, criticism and curating reflect his queer, anti-racist and transnational approach to contemporary art. He is the author of Productive Failure: Writing Queer Transnational South Asian Art Histories (2017) and co-editor of the forthcoming Storytellers of Art’s Histories. Prior to FIU, he worked in the curatorial departments and director’s offices of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, both in New York City.

Photo: Mugshot Study, 2006, by Kehinde Wiley, oil on canvas 36 x 24 inches.

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