Ashokkumar Mistry is a multidisciplinary artist, writer and curator working across the UK and internationally. At the core of his work Mistry explores conflict and its ability to create new realities. Conflict is framed in different ways; destructive, necessary, cyclical, transformative and creative. By subverting situations and technologies using conflict, he challenges conventional ways of making and viewing art.
“As a person who sees and experiences the world differently some would say I am in dispute with it, I would argue that I am compelled to provide a unique perspective”.
Mistry didn’t identify as neurodivergent until he was in his 40s, and it was a seminal moment for his artistic practice. Since then, he has focused on researching and writing about disability and neurodiversity through examining his own internal conflicts. His writing encompasses direct research and personal experiences relating to neurodiversity with a view to sharing experiences and changing attitudes.
He is currently Associate Artist with Disability Arts Online, a Development Artist with The Spark Arts, a Fellow of the International Association Of Art Critics (AICA-UK), and a member of the Wysing Arts Centre’s Accessibility Steering Group, part of DASH Arts’ Future Curators Programme. Mistry was commissioned to write for British Art Network, Shape Arts and Unlimited.
Mistry has been commissioned by the BBC and a number of galleries including the Lowry in Manchester and Southbank Centre London to create artworks and exhibitions.
As a curator, he has worked with Inspirate’s ‘An Indian Summer’ for a number of years delivering innovative and thought provoking exhibitions. Mistry has also developed and presented a number of exhibitions and performances in Taiwan for National Cheng Kung University and A-Glow Space.
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Ashokkumar D Mistry
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