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Prof. Alpesh Patel to moderate panel at MOCA Jan 30 2026

Published by Jane Evans on January 29, 2026

Conversations at MOCA with exhibiting artist Hiba Schahbaz and curator Jasmine Wahi, moderated by Alpesh Kantilal Patel, PhD. Dive into Hiba Schahbaz: The Garden, her first major retrospective showcasing 15 years of lush paintings inspired by Sufi mysticism, global myths, the feminist gaze, and fantastical realms of sea, land, and sky. Framed as a jannat or Paradise Garden with Persian and Mughal char-bagh influences, the exhibition merges Indo-Persian miniature traditions with large-scale works evoking South Florida’s lush landscapes and themes of transformation, selfhood, and care.

Prof. Alpesh Patel to speak at RIT’s Glass Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Published by Jane Evans on November 3, 2025

11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4
Booth Hall, room 3634 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY

About Alpesh Kantilal Patel

Alpesh Kantilal Patel’s (they/he) art historical scholarship, curation, and criticism reflect their queer, anti-racist, and transcultural approach to contemporary art. They are an associate professor of global contemporary art at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University. Recently, they were an artist in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts and curator at large at UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, where they organized a series of exhibitions under the theme, “Forever Becoming: Decolonization, Materiality, and Trans* Subjectivity.” Patel will talk about their current research and how these critical touchstones in queerness, anti-racism, and transculturalism has led into several publications and curatorial projects within the world of contemporary glass.