Philip Tinari is Director and CEO of UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. Since 2011, he has led its transformation from a founder-driven private museum into China's leading independent contemporary art institution, presenting a wide range of exhibitions and programs to an annual audience of nearly one million visitors. In 2018, UCCA opened a second location, UCCA Dune, in an award-winning building buried under the sand by the beach in Beidaihe. Tinari was founding editor of the magazine LEAP and is a contributing editor of Artforum. He was co-curator of the 2017 exhibition "Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World" at the Guggenheim and SFMOMA, and curator of the 2016 exhibition "Bentu: Chinese Artists in a Time of Turbulence and Transformation" at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris. He is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and a fellow of the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Fluent in Mandarin, Tinari holds degrees from Duke and Harvard, and is completing a doctorate in art history at Oxford.