Swagato Chakravorty

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.