2027 Wind Challenge Exhibition Series CALL FOR ARTISTS

For this series, nine selected artists will be featured in a trio of Wind Challenge Exhibitions—each featuring three artists—to be hosted at Fleisher in 2027. The jurors for this year’s competition are SEAN STAROWITZ and ALPESH PATEL. During this round the jurors will select 9 artists to be part of the Wind Challenge 2027. ALPESH KANTILAL PATEL is an associate professor of global contemporary art at Tyler School of Art and Architecture and was previously a curator at large at UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, where they organized a series of exhibitions under the theme, “Forever Becoming: Decolonization, Materiality, and Trans* Subjectivity.” They are the author of Multiple and One: Global Queer Art Histories, forthcoming from Manchester University Press and Productive Failure: Writing Queer Transnational South Asian Art Histories (2017); coeditor of the dossier ‘conceptualizing TRANS-ASIA’ for ASAP/Journal (2024), the anthology Storytellers of Art Histories (2022), and a special issue of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art (2021) commemorating Okwui Enwezor, among other publications. • The opportunity to work with Fleisher’s Director of Exhibitions in one of the country’s first community art centers, helping to curate their work in the selected gallery space.