The Other Suit 2, 2015. Fibreglass, Lycra, Cotton, Fabric Paint, life size

Trinity, 2021 (2k Film), installed at John Hansard Gallery, Southampton. Photo by Theirry Bal

Baa's Gold (Performance), The National Gallery, London. Photographer: Anna Arca

Hetain Patel, Baa’s Gold (Family portrait), Acrylic and lacquer on board, 89 x 125cm. Photo: Eva Herzog

Hetain Patel, To Dance Like Your Dad, 2009, 2 channel video, 6'16''

Hetain Patel, Baa’s Gold (Grandchildren), Acrylic and lacquer on board, 89 x 125cm. Photo: Eva Herzog

Baa’s House, video (installation view) CIRCA, Piccadilly Circus, London 2021

Hetain Patel (B. Bolton, UK 1980) has a diverse mulkti 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). 

Current and upcoming projects include, the solo shows Don't Look at the Finger, Tate St Ives, UK; Baa’s House, Humber Street Gallery, Hull, UK; Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India and the group exhibtion, Finding Family, Foundling Museum, London; Milk, Wellcome Collection, London.

Patel’s solo exhibitions include Trinity, New Art Exchange, Nottingham (2023); Baa’s House 11, CIRCA, Piccadilly Lights screen, London; Trinity, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (2021); Baa’s Gold, Copperfield, London (2021); Heavy Metal & Plastic Dreams, Birmingham Library, UK (2020); 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  (2018-2017); The Jump, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburg, USA (2015); The Other Suit, The Agency Gallery, London, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India (2015); Fiesta Transformer, C-Mine, Genk, Belgium (2014); At Home, Pump House Gallery, London, mac, Birmingham, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India, and New Art Exchange, Nottingham (2014-2012); Love and Marriage, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (2012); To Dance Like Your Dad, Watermans Arts Centre, London (2010); Sacred Bodies, National Office, Arts Council England, London (2010); To Dance Like Your Dad, New Art Exchange, Nottingham (2009).


Group exhibitions include Moving Bodies, Moving Images, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK; British Art Show 9, Manchester, Wolverhampton, Aberdeen, Plymouth (2021); The Fire Within, Various locations, Wigan, UK (2021); Peer to Peer, Online, Hong Kong - UK exchange (2020); Visions in the Nunnery (Lead Artist), Nunnery Gallery, London (2020); American Export, Grand Union Birmingham and Regent St Cinema, London (2019);  It Ain’t Half Racist Mum! (screening alongside Stuart Hall film), ICA, London (2019); Kaleidoscope, Somerset House, London (2019); Deeper Within Its Silence, Devi Art Foundation, Delhi, India (2019); Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London, UK (2019); Shall We Dance, MUCEM, Marseille, France (2019); Speech Acts, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK Curated by Hammad Nasar (2018); Common Third, Copperfield, London (2018); Everything We Do Is Music, Drawing Room, London (2018); Now! Now!, Chelsea College of Arts, London UK. Curated by Sonia Boyce (2016); Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane, Australia (2016); Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf, 56th Venice Biennale (2015); SPHERES 7, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France (2015); Heaven & Earth, Southbank Centre, London, UK. Part of Darbar Fesitval (2014);  SPHERES 6, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France (2013); Photoink, Delhi, India (2013); Indian Highway, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2012); Frictive Familiarities, Art Kino, Stockholm, Sweden (2010);  Ignite, New Delhi, India (2010); The Authentic Self (screening), Broadway, Nottingham, UK (2010); Progress Report, InIVA, Rivington Place, London (2010); No Heroes, Redcat Theatre, Walt Disney, Concert Hall, Los Angeles (2010); Punctum 1, Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai (2010); Wonder What The Others Are Up To?, Gallery OED, Cochin, India (2010); Pattern Recognition, City Gallery, Leicester, UK (2009); Emerging Discourse, Bodhi Art, New York, USA (2008).


Patel has presented performances and film at National Gallery (2021); at Royal Opera House, London (2018 & 2012); Sadler’s Wells, London (2018, 2016, 2014); National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai (2015); Serpentine Gallery, London (2014); Tate Modern, London (2012); Sydney Festival, Australia (2011); Tate Britain, London (2007) and he has been an artist in residence at 501 Artspace, Chongqing, China and Southbank Centre, London, among others.
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His works are in national and international collections including Tate, British Council, Fondazione In Between Art Film (Rome), Kiran Nada Museum of Art (New Delhi), M+ Museum, University of Salford Art Collection, Lakeside Arts Centre (University of Nottingham).


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