Curator and Editor Robin Peckham Has Been Named Co-Director of the Upstart Taipei Dangdai Art Fair

The Taipei Dangdai art fair is expanding its leadership
team.

Organizers behind the event, which was launched in January, have
appointed Robin Peckham as its co-director, artnet has learned.
Peckham will work alongside Magnus Renfrew, who co-founded the fair in
early 2018.

“Robin has an exceptional reputation as one of the leading
cultural innovators of his generation,” Renfrew said in a
statement. “Robin will be based in Taipei and will be well-served
by his fluency in Mandarin in broadening and deepening our
relationships with stakeholders and the cultural community.”

Peckham, an up-and-comer in Asian art circles, has worn many
professional hats, working as a writer, editor, curator, and
gallerist in Beijing, Hong Kong and Taipei, where he’s
currently based.

After attending Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, he
served as director of Boers-Li Gallery in Beijing. In 2011, he
founded Saamlung gallery in Hong Kong, which remained open for two
years. In 2014, Peckham co-curated the “Art Post-Internet”
exhibition at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing
with Karen Archey. That same year, he signed on as editor-in-chief
of LEAP, a Chinese–English journal on art, a position he held until
2018.

He will have a hand in curating Taipei Dangdai’s public
programming and will assist Renfrew in developing the fair, a
representative confirmed.

97 galleries are scheduled to participate in the second edition
of the fair, which is slated to run from January 17–19 next year at
the Nangang Exhibition Center in the Nangang District of
Taipei.

Renfrew, an influential figures in the Asian art world, will
remain in his position as co-director of the fair. The entrepreneur
founded Art Hong Kong in 2008, then made a big splash by selling
the established fair to Art Basel in 2011.

Renfrew is also the co-founder of ART SG, a Singapore
fair. After being postponed a year, the first edition of that
event is scheduled to run from October 30 through November 1,
2020.

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