Colin Chinnery

Colin Chinnery is an artist and curator based in Beijing. He recently co-founded Sound Art Museum, a cultural institution focusing on sound in Beijing. Previously, he was the Artistic Director of the Wuhan Art Terminus (WH.A.T.), a contemporary art institution under development in Wuhan, China; and Founder/Director of the Multitude Art Project, a pan-Asian inter-institutional collaborative exhibition and conference programme. He was Director in 2009 and 2010 of ShContemporary Art Fair in Shanghai, and before that, Chinnery was Chief Curator / Deputy Director at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing, where he was instrumental in setting up China’s first major contemporary art institution. Between 2003 and 2006, as Arts Manager for the British Council in Beijing, he initiated major projects in experimental theatre, live art, sound art, and visual arts, bringing a wider public into contact with experimental practice. Chinnery is contributing editor to Frieze magazine, Contemporary Visual Art+Culture Broadsheet, and Randian Online. An active artist in his own right, Chinnery in 2013 founded the Beijing Sonic Reenactment Project, a long-term project recreating the history of Beijing from the Republican era to the present day using only sound, a project combining multiple disciplines. He also co-founded the Complete Art Experience Project (2005-6), an artists’ collective whose works were presented in several important exhibitions in China and United States. Chinnery has also served as artistic advisor to a wide range of institutions and events, ranging from Tate Collections to Norman Foster’s Beijing International Airport.