Alpesh Kantilal Patel

Alpesh Kantilal Patel is an art historian, curator, and critic. A visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS), New York University, from 2010 to 2011, he received his B.A. in art history with honors from Yale University, New Haven, in 1997, and his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester, England, in 2009. His forthcoming book on queer South Asian visual cultures was shaped by his organization of the 2007 exhibition Mixing It Up: Queering Curry Mile and Currying Canal Street, a series of public art projects and performances that were situated in over seven museums and public spaces throughout the city of Manchester. He is a frequent contributor to Artforum and Artforum.com and has delivered talks on his research in Europe and the US. From 1997 to 2005, he was based in New York City, where he worked in the curatorial and director’s offices of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Currently based in Miami, Florida, he is the director of the M.F.A. program in visual arts and an assistant professor of contemporary art and theory at Florida International University.

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