About Hetain Patel
Hetain Patel is an artist and filmmaker based in London. His films, live performances, paintings, sculptures, and photographs have been shown worldwide in galleries, theatres, and on iconic public screens including Piccadilly Circus, London and Times Square, New York. His works have been presented at Tate Modern, Venice Biennale, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, Sadler’s Wells and BFI London. His work exploring identity and freedom, using choreography, text and popular culture appears in multiple formats and media, intended to reach the widest possible audience. His film and performance work online have been watched over 50 million times, which includes his TED talk of 2013 titled, ‘Who Am I? Think Again’.
Patel is the winner of the Film London Jarman Award, 2019, Kino Der Kunst Festival’s Best International Film 2020, and was selected to participate in British Art Show 9, 2021/22. In 2021 He received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Artist Award, a Henry Moore Foundation Award, declined a British Empire Medal and was a judge on Sky Arts television series, Landmark. Patel is a Patron of QUAD, Derby, and Film London’s Jarman Award, and was a trustee of the Liverpool Biennial 2021-25. In 2023, Patel was on the selection committee for the BAFTA’s. His commission for Artangel, Come As You Really Are, continues to tour throughout the UK.
Patel is represented by Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, and his artworks are in permanent collections in the UK and internationally, including Tate, British Council, Government Art Collection, Arts Council Collection, M+ Museum Hong Kong, KNMA New Delhi, and Fondazione In Between Art Film, Rome.