Philip Tinari is Director and Chief Executive of UCCA Center for Contemporary Art. Since joining UCCA in 2011, he has led its growth and transformation from a founder-owned private establishment into China’s premier institution of modern and contemporary art, operating across a constellation of four locations in Beijing, Shanghai, Beidaihe, and Yixing. His program has featured major Chinese and international artists including Cao Fei, William Kentridge, Luc Tuymans, and Xu Bing alongside emerging talents and historical figures such as Marcel Duchamp, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol. Tinari co-curated the landmark exhibition “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World” (2017) at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and organized the inaugural Diriyah Biennale (2021) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Born near Philadelphia in 1979, he has lived and worked in Beijing since 2006.