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Noted scholars and practitioners in the art world
Programmes are taught by some of the most knowledgeable and highly respected scholars in the field of art. The combination of academic faculty, visiting tutors,specialist lecturers and Sotheby's experts provides students with a wide breadth of knowledge and experience as well as an opportunity to develop a network of professional relationships.
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PHIL WHITTAKER
DIRECTOR, SOTHEBY’S INSTITUTE OF ART - SINGAPORE
Phil Whittaker joined Sotheby’s Institute of Art in February 2007 as the Director of Sotheby’s Institute of Art - Singapore.
Prior to joining Sotheby’s Institute of Art he spent 4 years at Ashridge, a UK based management development college, where is was primarily involved in teaching on the MBA course and designing leadership courses.
He also spent 6 years at the University of Strathclyde Graduate School of Business as a lecturer in Information Systems Strategy, and data management.
Phil holds two psychology degrees from the Open University, an MA in Management Learning from Lancaster University and an MBA from the University of Strathclyde Graduate School of Business.
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GIL SCHNEIDER
PROGRAMME DIRECTOR, MA ART BUSINESS
PhD in Law, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest; LL.M., Waseda University, Tokyo; MA in East Asian History of Art, Zurich University; Diplôme, ESCP-EAP, Paris
Gil Schneider studied law and business administration in France, England, Germany, Japan and Hungary. He started his professional career in Europe where he worked in the real estate, hotel and tourism business for over 10 years before moving to Singapore in 2003. Always interested and involved in the arts he obtained a MA in East Asian History of Art from Zurich University, Switzerland.
Schneider brings in his combined extensive business experience and broad knowledge of the arts.
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TONY GODFREY
PROGRAMME DIRECTOR, MA CONTEMPORARY ART
Professor of Fine Art, University of Plymouth; MA in Anglo-Irish Literature, University of Leeds
Tony Godfrey has taught at Sotheby’s Institute since 1989 and was one of the co-founders of the MA in Contemporary Art (London). His books include Conceptual Art, Drawing Today and The New Image: Painting in the 1980s. His new book on contemporary painting was published by Phaidon in 2009. A book of essays on individual art works edited by him is also due to be published then.
He has taught at Yale, New York and Oxford Universities, and many art schools. He is a regular contributor to exhibition catalogues and periodicals including Art in America, Art Monthly, and The Burlington Magazine.
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TAMAR ALMOR
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA ART BUSINESS: BUSINESS PLANNING AND FINANCE
Dr. Tamar Almor is Senior Lecturer at the School of Business Administration, The College of Management, Academic Studies, located in Rishon LeZion, Israel. She is Head Strategy and Entrepreneurship studies and specializes in business strategy, international entrepreneurship, and international business, which she teaches in the MBA program. Also, Dr. Almor currently serves as Dean of Students at the College of Management.
Her more recent research has focused on the international behavior and strategy of small, entrepreneurial, Israeli firms (Born Global firms) and high tech firms. She has received various awards for her research among them the L'Oreal award for excellence in research and the Yoram Rozenfeld award for research on high tech companies. She has edited two books on international business and publishes in leading international journals. She received her doctorate from Tel Aviv University, where she teaches until today.
In addition to her academic achievements she is Israel's representative in EIBA (the European International Business Academy) and is member of various Boards. Throughout the years she has been consulting to leading Israeli firms.
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THOMAS J. BERGHUIS
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA CONTEMPORARY ART
PhD, University of Sydney. Thomas Berghuis is currently Senior Project Curator at Casula Powerhouse - International Centre for Cultural Diversity, and the Postdoctoral Research Associate and primary Research Coordinator in the CCAP’s Linkage Project.
He was a visiting scholar at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (2003-2004); the Associate Curator for the 6th Sharjah International Biennale, U.A.E (2003); curator for the 1st Dashanzi International Arts Festival at 798 Factory, Beijing (2004); and the Associate Curator
for the 3rd Israel Video Art Biennial, Tel Aviv (2006).
His book, Performance Art in China, was published in 2006. In recent years he has become actively involved with the contemporary art scene in Southeast Asia, with special attention on Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.
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LEE WENG CHOY
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA CONTEMPORARY ART
MA in English Literature from Mills College, California, USA.
Lee Weng Choy is an art critic and the artistic co-director of The Substation arts centre in Singapore. He has lectured on art and cultural studies, convened a number of international conferences, and written widely on contemporary art, including the essays: “The future was when: art criticism and the comparative tenses of Hong Kong and Singapore” in Journal of Visual Culture (2007); “Authenticity, Reflexivity & Spectacle; or, the Rise of New Asia is not the End of the World” in Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985 (Blackwell, 2005); “Just What Is it that Makes the Term Global-Local So Widely Cited, Yet So Annoying?” in Over Here: International Perspectives on Art and Culture (New Museum & MIT Press, 2004); “Biennale Time and the Spectres of Exhibition” in Forum On Contemporary Art & Society (2002).
He is currently President of the Singapore Section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA Singapore), and also serves on the academic advisory board of the Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong).
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JOHN CLARK
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA CONTEMPORARY ART
PhD, University of Sheffield.
John Clark is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and Professor
in Art History and Theory at the University of Sydney. In 2003 he was also awarded an Australian
Centenary Medal. He served as chair of the Department of Art History & Theory from 2000-2002, and acting director of the Power Institute, Foundation for Art & Visual Culture, from 2001-2002.
Ongoing work includes a comparative study of Chinese and Thai art during the 1980s and 1990s, and an examination of the functions of international biennales in Asia.
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PATRICK D. FLORES
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA CONTEMPORARY ART
PhD in Philippine Studies, University of the Philippines.
Patrick Flores is Professor in the Art Studies Department, University of the Philippines. He holds a PhD in Philippine Studies following an MA in Art History. He has written extensively on art and popular culture for local and international publications. Publications include books on the humanities, colonial art, and cinema.
Flores was also the curator of the Arts Division at Philippine National Museum. Currently, he is researching curators of contemporary art in Southeast Asia.
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ARK FONGSMUT
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA CONTEMPORARY ART
MA Art Administration & Curatorship, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Ark Fongsmut is a curator at Bangkok University Gallery and teaches Visual Art Administrations at several leading universities in Thailand such as Chulalongkorn University, Mahidol University, Silpakorn University, and Thammasat University.
He began his career in curatorship in 1996 at Baan Chao Phraya Gallery, a non-profit art space in Thailand. His curatorial practices play with the diverse meanings of art space both inside the gallery and at public spaces.
His previous art projects include among others, The Month of Photography Bangkok 2, and the Thai-Filipino Artists Exchange Project. He is also a feature writer for many magazines, newspapers and art catalogues.
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DIRK KIEFER
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA ART BUSINESS: ART MARKETING
Since the early 1990s Dirk has been working as an arts producer across Europe and North America. He is currently Artistic Director of the German-Polish music festival Musikfesttage an der Oder/Dni muzyki nad odra and has produced work across multiple art forms such as a cross-disciplinary Taiwanese dance production at UCLA (USA), opera at the Théatre La Villette in Paris and other projects in theatre, visual arts and film.
For six years from its new opening Dirk has led the marketing department of the concert hall Nikolaisaal in Potsdam (Germany). Responsible for profile and brand development as well as curating the non-classical music programming, he has influenced the venue’s course from inception to its role as a first class multi-venue arts complex in the region.
Most recently Dirk concentrates on digital innovation technologies and the role of art and culture within the creative economy concept. This includes work for the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts in London and the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin.
Currently, Dirk is heading up the Innovation and Competence Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries in Berlin and is Academic Advisor and Lecturer in Arts Management and Creative Industries at Birkbeck College, University of London
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HENRY LYDIATE
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA ART BUSINESS: ART LAW
Henry Lydiate is a Visiting Professor of Art Law, University of the Arts, London, and a Course Consultant and Visiting Lecturer in legal, business and professional practice studies at a number of major art schools in the UK since 1978. He is a legal and business consultant specialising in the creative arts.
His publications include: The Visual Artist and the Law, The Visual Artist’s Copyright Handbook, Visual Arts and Crafts Guide to the New Laws of Copyright and Moral Right. He is an author of a regular art law column for Art Monthly; collected art law articles on-line at: www.artquest.org.uk/artlaw.
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PROFESSOR JIANPING MEI
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA ART BUSINESS: ART VALUATION AND INVESTMENT
Jianping Mei is a tenured associate professor of finance at the Stern School of Business, New York University. His major areas of research include international asset pricing and real asset finance. He has published over 30 articles in American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Real Estate Economics, and other academic journals. He has received several "Best Research Paper Awards" from various academic organizations.
Jianping has been a consultant and advisor to some of the largest financial institutions in the world, including Prudential Insurance of America, Fidelity Investment, UBS Warburg, NCH Capital, W.P. Carey, and Asia Development Bank. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University.
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CHARLES MEREWHETHER
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA CONTEMPORARY ART
PhD in Art History, University of Sydney.
Charles Merewether was until recently Deputy Director of the Cultural District (Saadiyat Island) for the Tourism Development & Investment Co. in Abu Dhabi and is currently Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Hong Kong International Art Fair. He was the Artistic Director
and Curator of the Biennale of Sydney 2006.
He has taught at the University of Sydney, Universidad Autonoma, the Ibero-Americana, and University of Southern California and had been recipient of various Fellowships.
He has published widely on modernism and contemporary art. His most recent publications include Under Construction: Ai Weiwei (2008), and Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan 1950-1970 (2007).
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HO TZU NYEN
LECTURER, MA CONTEMPORARY ART
MA (by Research) in Southeast Asian Studies, National University of Singapore
An artist and critic, Ho Tzu Nyen writes on art and the cinema for a number of international journals such as Broadsheet (Australia), Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (UK/Taiwan), FOCAS (Singapore), as well as contributes the occasional essay for catalogues. Since 2005, he has been the Singapore Editor for Art Asia Pacific (US).
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RUBEN DE LA NUEZ
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA ART BUSINESS: ETHICS
Rubén de la Nuez is an art theoretician. Currently, he is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam and a Guest Lecturer at the MA program, Dutch Art Institute, University of Twenthe, Enschede, The Netherlands.
He has been a Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Letters University of Havana, and at the Sichuan International Studies University, Chongqing, China. He was a UNESCO Research Fellow at the Theory Department, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, The Netherlands. He is a member of the editorial board of the Graduate Journal of Social Science and a correspondent for the magazine Art Notes.
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EMILY PHILIPS
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA ART BUSINESS: CONNECTING ART AND BUSINESS
Emily Phillips, holder of two Master’s and two Fulbrights, is currently doing her PhD. at the Freie Universitaet in Berlin, Germany. A former Sotheby’s Institute student, she has taught “Connecting Art & Business” for the MA Srt Business program at Sotheby’s Institute, Singapore since it first opened its doors in 2007. |
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NILANJAN RAGHUNATH
ADJUNCT LECTURER, MA ART BUSINESS
PhD in Sociology NUS Singapore, MA in Sociology and Anthropology Roehmapton Institute, London, MBA Business Administration and BSc Business Administration.United States International University, San Diego USA (now Alliant International University).
Nilanjan has lived, studied and worked in England, Kenya, India, Singapore, United Kingdom and United States. She brings with her a broad experience of having taught Sociology at the National University of Singapore as a fellow and having worked as a research grants/proposal advisor and administrator. Prior to her teaching career, Nilanjan has had many years of independent business consulting and market research experience. She has very good knowledge about Indian and Kenyan art and is herself a collector. She continues to teach dissertation writing and research methodology to local and international students besides various other courses. Nilanjan speaks five languages.
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ALVARO RODRIGUEZ
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA ART BUSINESS: ART MARKETS
Alvaro Rodríguez Fominaya is Executive Director/Curator of Para/Site Art Space (Hong Kong).
He has trained in curatorial studies at Fundació “la Caixa” Barcelona and has developed his career in Spain and London. He worked at Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno CAAM more than six years, where he was acting director during 2006-07. He has curated, among others, “This Is Hong Kong. 15 video artists from Hong Kong”, “Surasi Kusolwong. Golden Fortune. Good News Is Coming”, “Weather Report. Climate Change and Visual Arts”, “Scrabble. Video, Language and Abstraction”, “New Mystics”, “Joseph Kosuth: Terra Ultra Incognita” and co-curated“¡Viva la Muerte! Art and Death in Latinamerica” together with Gerald Matt and Thomas Miessgang. Over a period of two years he curated CAAM’s Film & Video Gallery exhibiting 23 artists, such as: Rodney Graham, Olaf Breuning, Pilar Albarracín, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Fischli & Weiss and Santiago Sierra.
He has lectured on contemporary art at MURAM (Murcia, Spain), Centro Cultural Conde Duque (Madrid, Spain), IVAM (Valencia, Spain), ArtZones (Miami, USA), Centro Cultural de España (Lima, Peru) and City University (Hong Kong). Mr. Rodriguez Fominaya has written extensively on El Periódico del Arte (Umberto Allemandi Publishers) and has been editor of Atlántica magazine. He currently is a contributor to Spain’s ABC newspaper and ArteContexto art magazine.
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EUGENE TAN
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA CONTEMPORARY ART
PhD in Art History, University of Manchester, UK.
The first programme director of the MA Contemporary Art (Singapore) he currently works as curator for Osage Gallery (Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing).
An art historian, critic and curator, Eugene Tan was the founding director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, LASALLE College of the Arts and among exhibitions he has curated include The Last Laugh: Humour in Contemporary Video Art, Painting as Process: Re-evaluating Painting, Jason Salavon: Brainstem Still Life and On Kawara in 2004, A Work by Lim Tzay Chuen and Antony Gormley: Asian Field in 2005, islanded: Contemporary Art from New Zealand Singapore and Taiwan in 2006 and Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves at ZKM¦Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany in 2007.
He was also curator for the Singapore Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005 and co-curator of the inaugural Singapore Biennale in 2006. He is the co-author of the publication Contemporary Art in Singapore and has written for many exhibition catalogues as well as publications such as Art Asia Pacific, Art Review, C-Arts, Contemporary, Contemporary Visual Arts, Flash Art, Metropolis M and Modern Painters. |
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