Alpesh Kantilal Patel (they/them) develops queer, transcultural, and anti-racist approaches to contemporary art and art history across scholarship, curatorial practice, criticism, and teaching.
Patel’s scholarship examines how art histories are written through relational, non-linear, and multi-sited forms of storytelling, particularly in relation to contemporary art, diaspora, and decolonial methodologies.
They are the author of Multiple and One: Writing Queer Global Art Histories (in press) and Productive Failure: Writing Queer Transnational South Asian Art Histories, and editor of Storytellers of Art Histories. Their scholarship, criticism, and curatorial work span academic publishing, exhibition-making, and collaborative public programming.
Curatorial projects include exhibitions and programs organized with UrbanGlass, Miami Beach Urban Studios, and institutions in the United States and Europe. Their work has been supported by a Fulbright award and fellowships and residencies in the United States and Europe.
Patel is co-editor of the Re-thinking Art’s Histories series at Manchester University Press, Associate Editor of Visual Arts, Architecture, and Art History for ASAP/J, and serves on the editorial advisory board of the Getty Research Journal. Previously, they served as Chair of the Editorial Board of Art Journal and Art Journal Open, and as editor of contemporary art book reviews for caa.reviews.