Contributor
Shiv Kotecha

Shiv Kotecha is a contributing editor of frieze. He is the author of The Switch (Wonder, 2018) and  EXTRIGUE (Make Now, 2015), and his criticism appears in 4Columns, Aperture, art-agenda, MUBI’s Notebook and BOMB.

Shiv Kotecha profiles an artist whose practice has challenged US imperialism and anti-Blackness through language and music

BY Shiv Kotecha | 08 JUN 22

25 years after its premiere, Wong’s film about being unable to escape the present strikes a new relevance 

BY Shiv Kotecha | 11 FEB 22

At The Breeder Gallery, Athens, the Nigerian artist tethers the superficial conventions of European portrait painting to the semiotics of Blackness

BY Shiv Kotecha | 25 AUG 21

At Candice Madey, a presentation of the late artist early works, drawings, paintings and photographs reveals Ellis's meticulous process of reconceptualising his family archive

BY Shiv Kotecha | 20 MAY 21

On the occasion of McKenzie’s Whitney show, Shiv Kotecha writes revisits Old Man/Sarcophagus (2013)

BY Shiv Kotecha AND Dave McKenzie | 19 APR 21

Shiv Kotecha on the long career of playback singer Asha Bhosle 

BY Shiv Kotecha | 20 NOV 20

The artist presents a range of paintings and sculptures at The Contemporary Austin that problematize grand historical narratives 

BY Shiv Kotecha | 28 APR 20

The artist’s photographs of domestic spaces, souks and bodegas, displayed on 100 bus stops around New York and at Helena Anrather, are ‘altogether unworldly’ 

BY Shiv Kotecha | 07 APR 20

At Gladstone Gallery, New York, the colourful lives of gay icons comprise a cultural self-portrait

BY Shiv Kotecha | 05 FEB 20

As Blake’s most comprehensive retrospective to date closes at the ICA, Los Angeles, Shiv Kotecha examines the artist’s three-decade practice, which revels in the infinite variations of identity and pleasure

BY Shiv Kotecha | 30 DEC 19

Majoli’s historical subjects couldn’t have known that the community for which they became sex symbols would soon be marked with a valedictory contingency – annihilation

BY Shiv Kotecha | 11 DEC 19

At New York’s Lincoln Center, the artist’s films speak to the enduring violence caused by forced exile

BY Shiv Kotecha | 01 NOV 19

In ‘This Marram’, TM Davy ushers you into a very personal – and almost enchanted – sliver of Fire Island

BY Shiv Kotecha | 19 SEP 19

In his first show at Callicoon Fine Arts in New York, the artist probes the ways we use – and abuse – objects  

BY Shiv Kotecha | 14 JUN 19

With wit and gumption, the late artist broke with institutional proprietaries and pedigree to rethink art’s place in its community

BY Shiv Kotecha | 15 MAY 19

With the fair now on, your guide to the best exhibitions in the city

BY Shiv Kotecha | 30 APR 19

For his first solo show at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, the artist’s five rapturous landscapes channel the cries of condemned and enslaved bodies under empire

BY Shiv Kotecha | 20 MAR 19

At Ortuzar Projects, New York, an exhibition explores the artist’s multidirectional storytelling

BY Shiv Kotecha | 15 FEB 19

Michael Muhammad Knight’s is not just a good book of religious scholarship, but a strange, delightful memoir

BY Shiv Kotecha | 14 DEC 18

An exhibition at Metro Pictures, New York, sees the artist explore the artistic potential in objects of everyday life

BY Shiv Kotecha | 24 OCT 18