Join us for an in-person walk through of our current exhibition, Till Human Voices Wake Us, And We Drown, on view in the Robert Lehman Gallery. This will be lead by the exhibition's artist, Kris Rumman, and Alpesh Kantilal Patel, an art historian and critic. Their conversation will touch upon the concepts behind the exhibition, the ideas behind the individual works included in it, as well as Rumman’s engagement with glass during her time and other materials.

Alpesh Kantilal Patel is an associate professor of contemporary art at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. His art historical scholarship, curating, and criticism 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), editor of numerous exhibition catalogs, as well as co-editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art’s special issue commemorating Okwui Enwezor (2021) and the anthology Storytellers of Art Histories (2022). His research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, Arts Council England, National Endowment of Humanities, Cranbrook Academy of Art, and New York University. A frequent contributor of exhibition reviews to artforum.com, he writes for frieze, Artforum, Art in America, and Hyperallergic.com. In 2022, he will be a fellow at Loughborough University’s Institute of Advanced Studies, where he will work on his next monograph, Transregional Entanglements: Sexual Artistic Geographies.