Hong Kong-Based 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.

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

After graduating from 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.

Ninety-five 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 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 cofounder 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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