Philip Tinari

Philip Tinari (b. 1979) is founding editor and acting publisher of LEAP, The International Art Magazine of Contemporary China, based in Beijing and launched by the Modern Media Group in February 2010. Since 2007, he has run the publishing imprint, editorial office, and translation studio Office for Discourse Engineering. Tinari is a contributing editor to Artforum and adjunct professor in the College of Humanities at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts. He also serves as China Representative to the leading international art fairs Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach. He has written and lectured widely on contemporary art in China, for publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Magazine, and Dushu. A resident of Beijing for much of the past decade, he holds an A.M. in East Asian studies from Harvard, a B.A. from the Literature Program at Duke, and was a Fulbright fellow at Peking University. Tinari recently became the Director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing.