Amol K Patil is an Indian conceptual and performance artist born in Mumbai in 1987 and working between Mumbai and Amsterdam. His multidisciplinary practice combines sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, video, sound and live action. Patil focuses on labour, migration, caste and class, particularly through the social history of Mumbai’s chawls, housing built for mill workers and migrant communities. Family archives are central to this research: his grandfather was a Powada poet and performer, while his father was an avant-garde playwright. By reactivating their songs, scripts and recordings, he uses art to construct counter-memories of working-class life and resistance.
In 2026, Patil presented The Shadow of Lustre at Galerie Peter Kilchmann in Zurich and Residues of Voices during Art Basel Parcours. These exhibitions brought together bronze sculptures, oil paintings, projected text, radio, video and sound installations. In Burning Speeches, a radio broadcasts a continuous address while appearing to dissolve into smoke, connecting communication technology with Dalit traditions of public storytelling and protest. Other works use suspended bronze hands, an empty cotton kurta, typewritten poetry and nocturnal figures carrying torches to evoke absent bodies and unequal access to the city. Across these projects, Patil treats movement, repetition and architectural traces as evidence of lives often excluded from official urban narratives, creating spaces where memory becomes both material and collective.