Alpesh Kantilal Patel

Alpesh Kantilal Patel is associate professor of contemporary art and visual culture at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, and a lead faculty member of Chautauqua School of Art’s summer residency program in New York. His art historical scholarship, curation and criticism reflect his queer, anti-racist, and transnational approach to contemporary art.

His first monograph Productive Failure: Writing Queer Transnational South Asian Art Histories (Manchester University Press, 2017) mobilizes “affirmative criticality" and "productive failure" as conceptual frameworks to produce a more ethical, entangled, and transparent practice of writing (art) history. In 2022, he will be a residential fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Loughborough University, England, where he will work on his new monograph, tentatively titled Transregional Entanglements: Sexual Artistic Geographies.

He received his bachelor’s from Yale University and his doctorate from the University of Manchester.