About
Philip Tinari is a writer and curator based in Beijing. He is a contributing editor to Artforum, and founding editor of artforum.com.cn, the magazine’s Chinese-language website. He is assistant professor of criticism and theory at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing and China Advisor to the international art fair Art Basel. He has written for publications including The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Parkett, and the Chinese journal Dushu, as well as exhibition catalogues for museums including the Guggenheim, MMK Frankfurt, and the Serpentine Gallery. He is author of Artists in China: Inside the Contemporary Studio (Thames and Hudson, 2007) and editor of publications including U-TURN, a six-part history of contemporary art in China and Hans Ulrich Obrist: The China Interviews (forthcoming, 2009). Recent exhibitions include The Hong Kong Seven (Hong Kong Museum of Art, Fondation Louis Vuitton, 2009), Delirious Beijing (PKM Gallery, Beijing, 2008), and CYLWXZ (Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2008). He holds an A.M. in East Asian studies from Harvard (2005) a B.A. from the Literature Program at Duke, and was Fulbright fellow at Peking University (2001-02). In 2007, he founded Office for Discourse Engineering, an editorial studio and publishing imprint focused on research and translation related to Chinese contemporary art.
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