Philip Tinari: what can be unburdened by what has been.
Philip Tinari, director, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, born in Philadelphia, USA. He has lived and worked in Beijing from 2001. He holds degrees from Duke and Harvard. Since coming to UCCA in 2011, Philip Tinari has led its transformation from a founder-owned private museum into an accredited museum across multiple locations, a public foundation, and a family of art-driven enterprises. During his tenure, UCCA has mounted more than seventy exhibitions and thousands of public programs, bringing artistic voices established and emerging, Chinese and international, to an audience of over a million visitors each year.