Benjamin Genocchio
Benjamin Genocchio
Benjamin Giorgio Genocchio (born 28 April 1969) is an Australian-born non-fiction writer, art critic and editor, now residing in the U.S. state of New York. He formerly worked for The New York Times as an art critic and is now the editor-in-chief of Art+Auction magazine. He is the author and editor of seven books.
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Xin Dong Cheng
Xin Dong Cheng
President of the Beijing Art Galleries Association
Founder of Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art
Renowned international art curators, art dealers, publishers
Since 1992, Xin Dong Cheng planned dozens of international and Chinese contemporary art exhibition in many countries around the world and many cities in China, and also published handers of volumes of books about Chinese contemporary art and artists personal portfolio. Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art was founded in the year 2000 in Beijing, China. It was the first generation gallery in China. Through the practice of international artistic exchange and international art market, Xin Dong Cheng for the Chinese contemporary art in the world-wide promotion and dissemination of international contemporary art in China, made a great contribution，already widely appreciated in international art circles. In 2012, he was awarded the “Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres”of France.
Ms. SUN Qiuxia, graduated from Beijing Sport University in 1985, has been successively engaged in higher education management in the university and culture market supervision in the government. She is the incumbent associate counsel of the Department of Culture Market of the Ministry of Culture of P.R.C. Meanwhile, she holds concurrent positions of the consultant of the CAA's Art Committee and the vice president of the CAAPA. With deep understandings about the development and policy of the China culture market, Ms. SUN has devoted herself to promote itsopenness and orderly progress.
Dong GuoQiang
Dong GuoQiang
Gender: Male
Nationality: Han
Birth: April 4, 1965
Native place: Beijing
Present Occupation: President of Beijing Council International Auction Co.Ltd; President of Council International Auction (Hongkong) Co.Ltd; Member of Chinese Calligrapher's Association; Member of the Ministry of Culture Art Assessment Committee.
Achievements: Mr.Dong created Beijing Council in 2005. The first auction held in April 2009 achieved a turnover of 0.24 billion, which caught the attention of auction industry. The total turnover of 2009 topped one billion, 2010 topped 2.64 billion and 2011 topped 4 billion. The much-anticipated Guoyunlou collections auction held in 2012 lived up to expectations, setting a new world record in the ancient books with 216.2 million. And the total turnover of 2013 was 3.4 billion. With strong and professional team and good reputation, Beijing Council has become a well-known brand in China's art auction industry under the guidance of Mr.Dong within a few short years.
Gan Xuejun
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Gan Xuejun, He graduated from RENMIN University of China in 1983. He was working in the Ministry of Cultural of the People’s Republic of China and State Administration of Cultural Heritage. He worked in China Guardian Auctions Co. Ltd. as the vice general manager during 1993-1997.He founded Beijing Huachen Auctions Co., Ltd. in 2001 and served as the chairman and the general manager till today.
He is also the honorary member of Chinese Ancient Ceramics Society, as well as the executive member of the council of the China Association of Auctioneer.
Liu Shangyong
Liu Shangyong
( Born April 2, 1959) is the general manager the Rombon auction, a painter, collector and orator. He is currently based in Beijing, China. Liu Graduated from Beijing University, earning a BA degree in Chinese studies in 1983. The same year he joined State Bureau of Cultural Relics as a connoisseur. In 1992, he moved to Rongbaozhai publishing house and spent 7 years there as the associate senior editor. He later became a administrative vice manager at Rombon auction in 1999. Liu is an experienced connoisseur of Chinese classical paintings & calligraphy, he now also the vice-chairman of Beijing Association of Auctioneers.
Liu Youzheng
Liu Youzheng
Liu Youzheng Deputy Executive Director
Art Auction Committee of the CAA
Mr. Youzheng LIU is the senior researcher on arts and antiques for the China museumsrecognized by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage. He is also the deputy director ofthe CAA art committee.
In academics, he enjoys a very high reputation for the study of Chinese archaeology, museumsand cultural heritage. He plays an influential role in the research of Blanc de Chine, Chineseancient bronze and Chinese ancient weights and measures in the world.
In art auction, he is one of the early pioneers in China art and antiques auction and the founderof the Emperor’s Ferry Auction. He is well-known in the global art and antiques circulations.
Wang Tao
Wang Tao
Graduated from the Yunnan Normal University , then enrolled in the Graduate Studies Department of China Art Research Institute; went abroad to UK in 1986 and enrolled in the School of Oriental & African Studies of the University of London and acquired the Ph.D. degree; worked for the Department of Archaeology of the School of Oriental & African Studies since 1993, and acted as advanced lecturer in Chinese archaeology of the School of Oriental & African Studies and School of Archaeology under the University of London, and director of the China Research Center of the School of Oriental & African Studies; started the“China Heritage International”, and presided over the Chinese artwork market, Chinese world heritage and other research projects; employed by many academic agencies at home and abroad as guest researcher. joined Sotheby’s in 2012 as the Senior Vice President and Department Head of the Chinese Works of Art.
Wang Yannan
Wang Yannan
Director and President of China Guardian Auctions
Chairman of China Guardian(HK) Auctions
As the leader of China Guardian Auctions and China Guardian(HK) Auctions, Wang is responsible for strategic development and management of operation. She is concurrently the Director of Culture & Artworks Auction Committee of CAA and the Deputy Director of China Ancient Ceramics Society.
As one of the founders of China Guardian, she was appointed as Deputy General Manager in 1993. Prior to that, she was the Deputy General Manager of the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel Beijing, where she served for 10 years. In 2007, she was awarded the “Significant Contribution Award” by China Association of Auctioneers, to acknowledge her distinguished contribution to the development of the art auction industry in China. In 2012 and 2013, she won ART+AUCTION POWER 100 AUCTION POWER. In 2013, she was awarded the Legacy Award by the Museum of Chinese in America, regarded as the first non-American-born-Chinese winner. In the same year, Madame Wang was listed in the Forbes Asia Business Powerful Women.
Wang graduated from Guangzhou Foreign Languages University with a B.A degree. She also studied Hotel Management in Brigham Yong University, USA.
Li Weidong (secretary-General of China Association of Auctioneers)
Mr. LI Weidong CAA Secretary-General
Born in 1968, Mr. LI successively got his B.Eng from Beijing Jiaotong University, M. Ec from Capital University of Economics and Business and D.Phil from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.
With rich management experiences in economics and trade, Mr. LI joined the CAA in 2001. Now, he, as the secretary-general, is fully responsible for the routine of the CAA Secretariat. With the rise of the Chinese art market, Mr. LI has unique understandings about the self-discipline, development and system construction of the China auction.
Dr. Melissa Chiu
Dr. Melissa Chiu is Museum Director and Vice President, Global Art Programs, Asia Society in New York where she has worked since 2001. Previously, she was Founding Director of the Asia-Australia Arts Centre in Sydney, Australia (1996-2001). Chiu earned an M.A. in Arts Administration (1994) and a PhD (2005) in Art History in her native Australia.
As a leading authority on Asian contemporary art, she has organized nearly 30 exhibitions of artists from across Asia including China. She has delivered papers and given lectures at Yale University, Harvard University and so on. She is the author of books including Breakout: Chinese Art Outside China (2007), and Chinese Contemporary Art: 7 Things You Should Know (2008).
Dr. Chiu is Vice President of the Association of Art Museum Directors and has served on grant and policy advisory committees for national, state and city governments.
Richard C. Morais Editor
Barron’s Penta
Richard C. Morais is the editor of Barron’s Penta, a quarterly magazine and website serving the information needs of families with more than $5 million in assets. Penta covers private banking, wealth management, trusts, taxes, and philanthropy, plus softer subjects ranging from travel to art collecting.
Prior to Barron’s, Richard worked for Forbes magazine. He was stationed in London for 17 years where he was Forbes’s European Bureau Chief. Richardhas written numerous cover stories for Forbes and taken political interviews with the likes of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Brazilian President LuizInacio Lula da Silva and so on.
Richard has won six nominations and three awards from the London-based Business Journalist of the Year Awards.Richard is the author of the unauthorized biography, Pierre Cardin: The Man Who Became a Label; and two novels, Buddhaland Brooklynand the international bestseller,The Hundred-Foot Journey. The latter isbeing made into a film directed by LasseHallstrom,and starring Dame Helen Mirren. It will be released August, 2014.
Mr. Wenbin Mu
Mr. Wenbin Mu received his B.A. in History from Nankai University. He served as deputy director for both Scattered Cultural Relics Office of State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the museum He was appointed deputy representative of State Administration of Cultural Heritage and Chinese Arts in Hong Kong while working as the deputy director of the China Heritage Advisory Center from 1991 to 1994.
He has been engaged in exports of artifact appraisal, market management and legislative research. He was the former deputy general manager of Shanghai Hong Run Economic Development Corporation, and the general manager of Beijing Wen Yuan Oriental Culture Communication Company. He is now the senior advisor for Beijing Hanhai Auction Co., Ltd.
JONATHAN STONE
Chairman and International Head of Asian Art
Jonathan Stone, Chairman and International Head of Asian Art, is based in Hong Kong and oversees the business, specialist and sale aspects of Christie’s Asian Art category of auctions and private sales all over the world, in Hong Kong, London, New York and Paris. Joining Christie's after gaining an M.A. in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London, Mr. Stone served in London for ten years as a specialist and later head of department. In 2000, he moved to Tokyo and was later appointed Representative Director of Christie’s Japan. He was appointed International Business Director of Asian Art in 2005 before assuming his current position in 2011. Under his direction, Christie’s sales of Asian art worldwide have increased significantly, while his role in developing Asian art as a sales category has also contributed to Christie’s rapid growth in Asia and to the establishment of Hong Kong as Christie’s third largest sale site and a major hub in the global art market. He also holds a Master’s degree in History from Peterhouse, Cambridge University, and is fluent in Japanese.
Zhang Xiaomin, male, born in 1964, vice-president of Shanghai Century Publishing Group , the Chairman of Shanghai Duo Yun Xuan (group). He is well-experienced in publishing and art management , who hosted books edition work and had won various national awards; meanwhile, he also owned personal national awards as China Publishing Governmental Prize Excellence Publisher, and enjoyed special government allowances of the state council.
Zhao Li
Zhao Li is professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), the art history department of which he graduated from in 1989. He obtained his PhD in arts in 1998. Zhao has served as deputy director of the art history department and vice president of the college of humanities at CAFA. Today, in addition to his positions at CAFA, Zhao has served as distinguished research fellow at the Institute for Cultural Industries Peking University, researcher at the Institute of Fine Arts, China National Academy of Painting, art director at Art Beijing Art Fair and Art Value magazine, director of the AMRC Art Market Research Center, fund executive of Chinese Modern & Contemporary Art Document (CCAD) Research, deputy secretary-general of Wu Zuoren International Fine Arts Foundation, founding director of Asian Art Education Foundation, and director of US S.P.A.M. Art Foundation. Zhao's work focuses on art history, theory, Chinese calligraphy and painting, contemporary art criticism, art economic research, exhibition planning and promotion. His published works include Status Quo of Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting, Chinese Oil Painting Literature, Jingjiang Painting Research, School of Jingjiang Painting, Chinese Contemporary Art (editor), Chinese Art Market Research Report (editor), White Paper on China Art Market (author), Annual Research Report on Chinese Art Market (editor), Brief History of Chinese Art (co-author), Compendium of Chinese Art History (co-author). Zhao has participated in numerous curating projects, including the "China Pavilion for the International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2009", "Series Exhibitions of Chinese Fine Arts Founders in the 20th Century", "Series Exhibitionsof Fine Arts Pioneers in New China", "Global Art Collection Summit", "Art Economic Forum", "Boao Forum - Asian Art Salon", and "Annual Conference of Collectors of Chinese Contemporary Art".
Zheng Shengtian
Zheng Shengtian Biography
Zheng was born in China and graduated from the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. For more than thirty years, he worked at his alma mater as Professor and Chair of the Oil Painting Department. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota and at San Diego State University in the 1980s. Zheng has immigrated to Canada since 1990. From 1996 to 2000, he was the Secretary of the Annie Wong Art Foundation and Director of Art Beatus Gallery in Vancouver. He has been the Managing Editor of Yishu – Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, the only English language magazine on contemporary Chinese art since 2002. He is also a founding member and Board Director of Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art since 1999. As an independent curator, he has organized and curated numerous exhibitions including Jiangnan - Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibitions (Vancouver), The Art of Proletarian Cultural Revolution (Vancouver, Toronto, Winnipeg), Shanghai Modern (Munich, Kiel), the 2004 Shanghai Biennale (Shanghai), China Trade (Vancouver), Reincarnation (Toronto) and recently, Art and China’ Revolution (New York). He is currently working on the Vancouver Biennale as a Senior Curator for Asia. Zheng is a frequent contributor to periodicals and catalogues of contemporary Chinese and Asian art.
Hannes Combest
Hannes Combest
Hannes Combest was named as Chief Executive Officer for the National Auctioneers Association beginning in June of 2008. Prior to her work at NAA, she served members of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America for 13 years
Earlier in her career, Ms. Combest taught journalism at Haskell Indian Nations University, a university exclusively for Native Americans in Lawrence. While there, she also served as the Executive Assistant to the President, primarily focused on media and public affairs.
She has a master's degree from Baker University and has been a Certified Association Executive since 2002. She is active in the American Society of Association Executives as an instructor and developer of online programs and is past-president of the Kansas City Society of Association Executives. She received the Professional Excellence Award in 2005 and in 2010 received the Distinguished Executive Award.
Terry Huang
Terry Huang
Dr. Terry Huang is the vice president and head of Asia-Pacific Region of Motif Art Group. Previously, he was the panel advisor of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the professor of New York University.
Dr. Huang got PHD in history of Modern Art at Harvard University and MS in Arts Administration at Boston University. His has published many books including Philip Guston：Night Studio and His Art in Woodstock and Semiology of Visual Languages in Contemporary Art.
Barbara Pollack
Barbara Pollack is experienced journalist and art critic. She is the author of The Wild, Wild East: An American Art Critic's Adventures in China (2010). Pollack has covered the Chinese art scene for these publications as well as Vanity Fair, Art & Auction and Art in America, among many others.
She is also a regular contributor to the Chinese-language versions of the New York Times and the Art Newspaper and to Modern Weekly, China's leading lifestyle magazine. In addition to articles, Pollack has written monographs on artists. Based on her extensive research in this field, she received a grant from Asian Cultural Council in 2006 and the prestigious Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation arts writers grant in 2008.
Ms. Pollack is currently curating an exhibition, My Generation: Young Chinese Artists, scheduled to open at the Tampa Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, in June 2014.
Richard Vine
Richard Vine is the managing editor of Art in America, where he writes frequently on contemporary art and ideas. He has served as editor-in-chief of the Chicago Review and of Dialogue: An Art Journal.
Mr. Vine holds a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Chicago. He has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, New York University and so on. His articles have appeared in various journals and in numerous art catalogues and critical compendiums.
New China, New Art, his book surveying art in China from 1978 to the present, was released by Prestel Publishers in fall 2008 and reissued in an updated and expanded edition in fall 2011. In fall 2013, he curated the international exhibition "Darkness Visible" at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing.
Christopher Phillips
Christopher Phillips is Curator at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York and is a widely published critic and photography historian. Prior to ICP, he worked as Senior Editor at Art in America. Among the numerous exhibitions he has organized and co-curated areAtta Kim: On-Air, Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China; The Rise of the Picture Press; The Metropolis and the Art of the Twenties; and Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan. His has also published books entitled Photography in the Modern Era, The New Vision (with Maria Morris Hambourg), and Steichen at War.
Beyond his work as Curator at the ICP, Philips has been actively engaged with the broader world of contemporary Chinese art, especially photography. He has collaborated with contemporary Chinese multi-media artists on a regular basis through exhibitions at ICP and curatorial projects worldwide. Notable exhibits inlucde Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, co-curated with Wu Hung and exhibited at ICP, Asia Society Museum, Haus der Kulturern der Welt (Berlin), the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Mr. Phillips also lectures on Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video Art at Barnard College, Columbia University.
JEAN-PIERRE OSENAT
President, SYMEV (French Association of Auctioneers)
Mr. Jean- Pierre Osenat was born in 1946 in Paris. He received a Law degree at theUniversity of Saint-Maur and became an auctioneer. He is a Chevalier of Arts and Letters Knight of the National Order of Merit. He started his career as an auctioneer trainee studying under Maurice Rheims (1968-1973), Director of the Glass Gallery in Paris. He has had a long and prestigious career working at auction houses and auction house societies. He has planned numerous successful auctions; among them, auction sales focusing on Napoleon and "The Empire Fontainebleau", School of Barbizon artworks, antiques and objets d'art, car collectibles, and charitable auctions. Mr. Orsenat has helped develop the study of Fontainebleau through his studies and critical auction sales held among the top French auction houses that focus on works created during this period known as “The Empire Fontainebleau". The charitable sales made the town of Fontainebleau an important place for the French art market.
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