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, University of Washington, Seattle, and a PhD candidate at Yale University. At the Henry, he has organized Figure/Ground: New Criteria, “Every Picture Somewhat of an Experiment”: Helen Frankenthaler Prints, and (forthcoming) a major group show around contemporary art, emerging technologies, and senses of the social, which has received major support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

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.