Art Market Specialist | Researcher | Educator | Cross-Cultural Policy Advisor
Expertise
- Global and emerging art markets
- Art business and cultural economics
- Cross-cultural policy and international cultural exchange
Biography
Dr Iain Robertson is a professor in the Department of Art and Cultural Management at Hongik University, South Korea. He was Head of Art Business Studies at Sotheby’s Institute of Art 2004-2021. He is the editor of the art market journal, Art & the Market: Caucasus & Beyond, Educational Director of the Armenia art fair and co-director of Art Market Intelligence. His books include: Understanding International Art Markets and Management (2005) (2nd edition 2014), The Art Business (2008) and A New Art from Emerging Markets (2011). Art Business Today, 20 Key Topics (2016), Understanding Art Markets: Inside the World of Art and Business (2016) and New Art New Markets (2018). A Pathway through Modern and Contemporary Armenian Art (2022). His new book Global Art Markets: Historical perspectives and current developments will be published in 2024. He was art market editor of Art Market Report and is co-series editor of Handbooks in the Art Business (SIA and Lund Humphries). He consults for commercial organisations in Asia, the Middle East and Europe. He lectures worldwide in universities. He is a board member of TIAMSA (The International Art Market Studies Association) and consultant to The Korean International Art Fair. He also features in The Bankers Guide to Art on BBC 4 (2016) and in the film, Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World (2017) and a Korean mini-series entitled Art audition Gallery Show (2024).