Bio

Swagato Chakravorty (he/him) is an Indian American curator and critic whose work ranges across modern and contemporary art and visual culture, focusing on questions of materiality and cross-cultural histories of diaspora and migration, especially in relation to the Global South.

He is Associate Curator at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, and a PhD candidate at Yale University. Previously, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, he co-curated Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvellous Entanglement (with a newly-commissioned performance) and organized Day With(out) Art 2022: Being and Belonging in collaboration with Visual AIDS, as well as several time-based media installations. At the Museum of Modern Art, the Jewish Museum, New York, and the New Museum, he assisted with several exhibitions including Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done; Bruce Conner: It's All True; Jonas Mekas: The Camera was Always Running; Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel; and Nari Ward: We the People.

His writing has appeared in exhibition catalogues, academic journals, and arts periodicals including Art Journal, Art in America, Boston Art Review, and the Brooklyn Rail.

Here are some of his publications.