Philip Tinari

• Director
  Ullens Center for Contemporary Art

Philip Tinari is a writer, curator, and since 2011 director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. In this role he organizes an exhibition program devoted to established figures and rising talents both Chinese and international, aimed at an annual public of nearly a million visitors. There he has curated exhibitions of artists including William Kentridge, David Diao, Liu Wei, Xu Zhen, Tino Sehgal, Wang Xingwei, Gu Dexin, Taryn Simon, Yung Ho Chang, and Kan Xuan among many others. Prior to joining UCCA he was editorial director of the bilingual art magazine LEAP, which he founded in 2009 under the leading Chinese publishing group Modern Media. He previously worked in roles such as China advisor to Art Basel, lecturer at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and founding editor of artforum.com.cn, the Chinese edition of the international art magazine Artforum, where he remains a contributing editor. He is currently also working on major exhibitions contemporary art from China at the Fondation Louis Vuitton (2016) and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2017). Tinari holds a B.A. from Duke, an A.M. from Harvard, and is pursuing a D.Phil. in art history at Oxford.