Hetain Patel has a diverse multi media and performative practice. Identity formation has been central to his concerns since the beginning of his career, more recently this idea has been viewed through the lenses of imitation, language and physical movement. Increasingly Hetain’s work is populated by characters, both fictional and real, in relation to which the artist juxtaposes himself in moments of elision and dissonance. Since 2010, his work has extended from gallery settings to the theatre. Hetain’s practice, exploring the subtle and often humorous complexities of life, has won a number of awards, including the Jarman Award for the film Don’t Look at the Finger (2019) and the Best International Film, Kino Der Kunst, Munich (2020).
Recent and upcoming projects include: Come as you really are, The Hobby Cave, London (UK, current), Don’t Look at the Finger, Tate St Ives (UK), Finding Family, Foundling Museum, London (UK), and Milk, Wellcome Collection, London (UK). For his most recent solo exhibition with the gallery please click here. For his most recent group exhibition with the gallery please click here. |
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Come as you really are, The Hobby Cave, Croydon, London, UK, commissioned by Artangel (current) 2023 Don't Look at the Finger, Tate St Ives, UK Cars & Carpets, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India Baa’s House 11, CIRCA, Piccadilly Lights screen, London, UK Baa’s House, Humber Street Gallery, Hull, UK 2022 Trinity, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK 2021 Trinity, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK Baa’s Gold, Copperfield, London, UK 2020 Heavy Metal & Plastic Dreams, Birmingham Library, UK 2017 Don’t Look at the Finger, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, Tanzhaus Düsseldorf, John Hansard Gallery, UK, New Art Gallery Walsall, UK, and Manchester Art Gallery, QUAD, Derby, UK (2017-2018) 2015 The Jump, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburg, USA The Other Suit, The Agency Gallery, London, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India 2014 Fiesta Transformer, C-Mine, Genk, Belgium 2012 At Home, Pump House Gallery, London, mac, Birmingham, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK (2012-2014) Love and Marriage, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK 2010 To Dance Like Your Dad, Watermans Arts Centre, London, UK Sacred Bodies, National Office, Arts Council England, London, UK 2009 To Dance Like Your Dad, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK Group Exhibitions 2023 Finding Family, Foundling Museum, London, UK Milk, Wellcome Collection, London, UK 2022 Moving Bodies, Moving Images, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK British Art Show 9, Manchester, Wolverhampton, Aberdeen, Plymouth, UK 2021 The Fire Within, Various locations, Wigan, UK 2020 Peer to Peer, Online, Hong Kong - UK exchange Visions in the Nunnery (Lead Artist), Nunnery Gallery, London, UK 2019 American Export, Grand Union Birmingham and Regent St Cinema, London, UK It Ain’t Half Racist Mum! (screening alongside Stuart Hall film), ICA, London, UK Kaleidoscope, Somerset House, London, UK Deeper Within Its Silence, Devi Art Foundation, Delhi, India Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London, UK Shall We Dance, MUCEM, Marseille, France 2018 Speech Acts, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK Curated by Hammad Nasar Common Third, Copperfield, London, UK Everything We Do Is Music, Drawing Room, London, UK 2016 Now! Now!, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK, curated by Sonia Boyce Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane, Australia 2015 Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf, 56th Venice Biennale SPHERES 7, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France 2014 Heaven & Earth, Southbank Centre, London, UK. Part of Darbar Fesitval 2013 SPHERES 6, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France Photoink, Delhi, India 2012 Indian Highway, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China 2010 Frictive Familiarities, Art Kino, Stockholm, Sweden Ignite, New Delhi, India The Authentic Self (screening), Broadway, Nottingham, UK Progress Report, InIVA, Rivington Place, London No Heroes, Redcat Theatre, Walt Disney, Concert Hall, Los Angeles, USA Punctum 1, Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai, India Wonder What The Others Are Up To?, Gallery OED, Cochin, India 2009 Pattern Recognition, City Gallery, Leicester, UK 2008 Emerging Discourse, Bodhi Art, New York, USA Collections Tate, British Council Fondazione In Between Art Film, Rome, Italy Kiran Nada Museum of Art, New Delhi, India M+ Museum, University of Salford Art Collection, UK Lakeside Arts Centre, University of Nottingham, UK Screenings and Performances 2021 National Gallery London, UK 2018 Royal Opera House, London, UK Sadler’s Wells, London, UK 2016 Sadler’s Wells, London, UK 2015 National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India 2014 Sadler’s Wells, London, UK Serpentine Gallery, London, UK 2012 Royal Opera House, London, UK Tate Modern, London, UK 2011 Sydney Festival, Australia 2007 Tate Britain, London, UK Awards 2020 Best International Film, Kino Der Kunst, Munich, Germany 2019 Jarman Award for the film Don’t Look at the Finger Residencies 501 Artspace, Chongqing, China and Southbank Centre, London, UK |