Amol K Patil (b. 1987, Mumbai) is a conceptual and performance artist whose practice emerges from the lived histories of Mumbai’s chawls, dense worker housing shaped by labor and migration. Growing up in this environment, Patil developed an artistic language that excavates memory through sound, gesture, and movement. His works often weave together performance, kinetic installation, and video, transforming personal and family archives into living settings where objects, such as an old Dictaphone, industrial sirens recorded by his father, or his grandfather’s Powada protest verses, become active voices.

Drawing from a lineage of resistance, Patil extends the legacies of his grandfather, a protest poet, and his father, a theater activist, into his own multidisciplinary practice. Through these inheritances, he stages counter-memories that challenge caste hierarchies, migration politics, and the erasure of working-class lives within urban modernity. His recent projects expand this research into the constructs of urbanization, reimagining relationships between humans, soundscapes, and landscapes.

Amol K Patil (b. 1987, Mumbai) has shown works at the Site Santa Fe international, New Mexico, 2025; Berlin Biennale, Berlin, 2025; De Pont Museum in The Netherlands 2024, Gwangju Biennale 2024; Hayward Gallery in London 2023; Kunstenfestivaldesarts, in Brussels 2023; Documenta Fifteen, Kassel, Germany, 2022; Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India 2022-2023; Yokohama Triennale (Yokohama, 2020); Goethe- Institute / Max Mueller Bhavan (Mumbai, 2019), Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan (New Delhi, 2019); The Showroom (London, 2018), Tensta konsthall (Stockholm, 2017), Pompidou (Paris, 2017); Pune Biennale Habit-co Habit (Pune, 2017); New Galerie (Paris, 2016); Japan Foundation (Delhi, 2015); Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, 2015); Kadist Art Foundation, (Paris, 2013) (Text by Zasha Colah).