Team

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Tim Etchells

Tim Etchells has spent the last 30 years creating and managing Events and Fairs all over the world. From The Good Food Shows to London Fashion Week to Art HK, Tim has worked in numerous different industry sectors and in many different countries. In 2016 Tim received two separate Lifetime achievement awards from the UK Exhibition industry. In 2008 Tim developed the idea to stage Art HK which very quickly became the largest art fair in Asia, and now under the ownership of  MCH and renamed Art Basel Hong Kong. In 2013 Tim launched Sydney Contemporary initially on a biannual basis, and, having established itself as the largest international art fair in Australasia, Sydney Contemporary moved to an annual cycle in 2017.

Magnus Renfrew

Co-founder of ART SG, Taipei Dangdai and Tokyo Gendai, Renfrew was previously founding director of both Art Basel in Hong Kong, and its predecessor ART HK: Hong Kong International Art Fair, which inaugurated in 2008.

Renfrew has been named twice in the ArtReview ‘Power 100’ as one of the 100 most influential figures in the art world. In 2013 he was honoured by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader. Renfrew holds a first class honours degree in Art History from the University of St Andrews.

Charles Ross

Charles Ross has over 25 years experience of working in the exhibition Industry. He started working for Tim Etchells in 2001 and was appointed as its founding Managing Director of ART HK which  he served from its inception through to its final edition in 2012, after which it became Art Basel Hong Kong.
Since 2012 Charles has worked on a number of other art fairs and is now Managing Director of both Taipei Dangdai and ART SG for which he oversees the sponsorship, visitor marketing strategy, and the commercial and operational elements of both Fairs.

• Email:charles.ross@smelondon.co.uk

Scott Gray

Founder & CEO of Creo Arts Group and PHOTOFAIRS and CEO of Angus Montgomery Arts, Gray has over 20-years experience in the international events and arts business. Scott also serves as Managing Director for the India Art Fair and Tokyo Gendai.

• Email:scott@worldphoto.org

Craig Brown

Director Gallery Relations

Craig Brown has over 20 years’ experience working in the international art market, having held senior positions in commercial galleries, publishing and art fairs, particularly in London and Hong Kong. Craig was previously the fair director of Masterpiece London, which also launched in Hong Kong in 2019.

Craig holds an MA in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art, and is regularly invited to return as a guest speaker.

• Email:craig@theartassembly.com

Louise Laage Toft

Group Head of Audience & Insights

Louise’s decade long experience in the contemporary art world started while growing up in Denmark where she worked for contemporary galleries as well as a Copenhagen based art fair.

Prior to joining the group in 2021, Louise worked at Frieze for four years, focusing on the art fairs in London, New York and Los Angeles.

Louise is now working across all The Art Assembly fairs, responsible for the strategic development of new digital products, audience development strategies, data processes as well as analytics and insights.

• Email:louise@angusmontgomeryarts.co.uk

Inbal Mizrahi

Group PR & Communications Managing Director, Creo

Inbal studied Photographic Arts at the University of Westminster followed by an MA in Political Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has gained significant press and PR and experience working on a range of high profile international projects for both public institutions and in agencies including Sutton PR, Whitechapel Gallery, The Photographers’ Gallery and Reiber PR.

• Email:inbal@theartassembly.com

Jaya Asakon

India Art Fair

Bringing over 20 years of experience in numerous creative industries including arts, culture, design and fashion, Jaya is responsible for the strategic and curatorial enhancement of the fair, and increasing its footprint in India and internationally.  Prior to this, Jaya worked at Saffronart, India’s leading online art and antiquities auction house, and served in senior positions at a premier gallery and other luxury retail and internet companies in India and the US.

Jaya has a bachelors in Fine Arts and a graduate degree from Parsons School of Design in New York. Driven to promote diversity and development opportunities, she mentors start-ups, young professionals and is part of committees at prestigious grant-making organisations including the Fulbright Scholar Program.

• Email:jaya@indiaartfair.in

Fan Ni

PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai

Fan Ni joined the team in 2019 and is responsible for the curation and direction of PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai. Prior to joining Fan Ni was Associate Publisher of ArtReview Asia. Over the years she has successfully fostered vital relationships with galleries and institutions across Asia. Fan Ni also worked at leading art institutions in China including UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, through which she built a wide network with artists, curators, and key players in the art world.

• Email:fanni@worldphoto.org

Barry Keldoulis

Sydney Contemporary

Barry Keldoulis, Director of Sydney Contemporary, has more than three decades experience in contemporary art. Since his return to Sydney after nearly fifteen years in New York and Europe, Barry Keldoulis has worked in the museum and commercial gallery worlds, and in 2003 opened his own gallery, GBK (Gallery Barry Keldoulis), to fill a gap in opportunity for young artists to exhibit between artist-run spaces and the major commercial galleries. Artists from his stable are represented in all the state galleries and the National Gallery of Australia, and now exhibit in museums and private galleries around the globe. Barry was also Chair of the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA).

• Email:barry@artfairsaustralia.com.au

Robin Peckham

Taipei Dangdai

Robin Peckham is a curator and editor currently living in Taiwan, where he is Co-Director of Taipei Dangdai. He previously served as editor-in-chief of LEAP, the international art magazine of contemporary China, and organized exhibitions for Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Fosun Foundation, and K11 Art Foundation. Peckham was named to Apollo Magazine’s 40 Under 40 Asia in 2016, and had his show “Art Post-Internet” listed by Artnews as one of the 20 most important art exhibitions of the 2010s.

• Email:rp@taipeidangdai.com

Eri Takane

Tokyo Gendai

Previously working as an independent art consultant for leading international artists, collectors and corporations, including Google Arts & Culture Japan division, Takane has a wealth of experience across the art sector in Japan that has seen her work as the art director at Sezon Art Gallery in Tokyo as well as host Tokyo FM radio program Sustainadays. During her 13 years stay in NYC, she worked at the Japan foundation NYC to provide funding for not-for-profit art organizations in the United States.

• Email:eri@tokyogendai.com

Shuyin Yang

ART SG

Having worked across auctions, galleries and art fairs, Shuyin Yang has extensive art world experience, much of which has been spent in Southeast Asia. Shuyin started her career in art at Christie’s, working in London, Singapore and Hong Kong. She then joined a contemporary art gallery as a director of the Singapore space, helping to develop their gallery program and art fair strategy. Shuyin was appointed Fair Director of Art Central Hong Kong in 2017, where under her leadership, the Fair saw its strongest edition to date. Shuyin brings incomparable knowledge of the Southeast Asian art world, with deep ties and networks spanning artists, galleries, collectors, curators and key players.

• Email:shuyin@artsg.com