MAGNUS RENFREW
Co-Chairman and Global Director, The Art Assembly

Magnus Renfrew is an international art fair organiser, and author. Magnus is co-founder of ART SG, a major art fair for Southeast Asia which held its inaugural edition in January 2023, and Tokyo Gendai which which debuted in July 2023. In 2019 he co-founded the art fair - Taipei Dangdai - which has rapidly established itself as a key fixture on the international art
calendar.
Magnus was founding director of Art Basel in Hong Kong - serving as one of three members of Art Basel’s global Executive Committee, and was founding director of the fair’s predecessor ART HK: Hong Kong International Art Fair, which inaugurated in 2008 and has been widely recognised as repositioning Hong Kong as a centre for art and culture.
In 2017 Magnus’s book Uncharted Territory: Culture & Commerce in Hong Kong’s Art World was published by Penguin.
Renfrew has been recognized for his contribution by industry media and has been named twice in the ArtReview ‘Power 100’ as one of the 100 most influential figures in the art world. In 2013 he was honoured by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader.
Magnus holds a First Class MA (Hons) in Art History from University of St. Andrews