November 7: Creating Visual Histories: the Role of Art History Today:
Sharon Louden moderates a conversation with Yasmeen Siddiqui and Alpesh Kantilal Patel as to how artists become part of art history today. How can art history be relevant and be a bridge into the public realm?
Yasmeen Siddiqui is the founder of Minerva Projects, an incubator space launched in Denver, Colorado, and based in Pine Plains, New York. It is a site where curatorial ideas are tested in service to publishing books. This November, she will be a resident at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. Collaborating on multiple fronts with art historian, Alpesh Kantilal Patel, Siddiqui is co-editing the forthcoming volume on art history in the Intellect Books Series, “Living and Sustaining a Creative Life”; co-moderating a discussion for the 2019 College Art Association Conference in New York titled, “A reckoning with the recent future of art historical knowledge production”; and will be part of a core-faculty, teaching at the Chautauqua School of Art starting in the summer 2019. Siddiqui’s pasts subjects in writing and curating have included Do Ho Suh, Consuelo Castañeda, Hassan Khan, Linda Ganjian, Pia Lindman, Lara Baladi, Mary Carothers, Matt Lynch and Chris Vorhees, and Mel Charney. Her writing has appeared on Hyperallergic and in ART PAPERS, the Cairo Times, Medina Magazine, Flash Art, Modern Painters, NKA and The Brooklyn Rail, and in books and exhibition catalogues including: Fault Lines Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscapes; Do Ho Suh: A Contingent Object of Research; “Do Ho Suh” in If you were to live here: The 5th Auckland Triennial; On Architecture. Melvin Charney a Critical Anthology, edited by Louis Martin.
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Dr. Alpesh Kantilal Patel is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami and currently a visiting scholar at the Asian/Pacific/Institute at New York University. His art historical scholarship, curating and criticism reflect his queer, anti-racist, and transnational approach to contemporary art. The author of Productive failure: writing queer transnational South Asian art histories (Manchester University Press, 2017), he is currently working on two books: a single-authored monograph “Transregional Entanglements: Sexual Artistic Geographies” and with Yasmeen Siddiqui an anthology “Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Art History” under contract with Intellect Press. His research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Endowment of Humanities, Arts Council England, Fulbright Foundation, and Cranbrook Academy of Art. A frequent contributor of exhibition reviews to various international art publications, he was editor of contemporary art book reviews for caa.reviews from 2015-18. He has worked in the curatorial and director’s departments of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. At Miami Beach Urban Studios, he organized solo exhibitions of artists such as mounir Fatmi, Tom Scicluna, Paul Donald and Saravanan Parasuraman. Dr. Patel received his PhD in Art History & Visual Studies from the University of Manchester and a BA in History of Art with distinction from Yale University.
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