Iain Robertson

PhD, MA and BA (Hons), City University, London

Dr Iain Robertson is Head of Art Business Studies at Sotheby's Institute of Art. He was Exhibitions Officer, Royal Institute of British Architects; Cultural Officer , British Mission to Taiwan and Senior Lecturer in Arts Policy & Management at City University.

His books include: Understanding International Art Markets and Management (2005); The Art Business (2008); 'A New Art from Emerging Markets' (2011); Understanding Art Markets, Inside the World of Art and Business (2016); Art Business Today: 20 Key Topics (2016). Two forthcoming texts: 'New art New Markets' and 'Our Culture' will appear in 2017 and 2018 respectively. He was art market editor of Art Market Report and is co-series editor of Handbooks in Art Business (SIA and Lund Humphries). He has written over one hundred articles in the arts and national press. He consults for banks in Asia and Europe and is visiting professor to Tsinghua and Lisbon Universities

Selected Publications

Books:

Art Business Today. 20 Key Topics, co-editor with Jos Hackforth-Jones, Lund Humphries (October, 2016)

Understanding Art Markets. Inside the World of Art and Business, Routledge (2016) sole author (combining Understanding Art Markets and Management and The Art Business under one title) Korean edition (2017). Chinese (2017)

The Art Business, co -editor with Derrick Chong. Routledge (2008)

A New Art from Emerging Markets, Lund Humphries, (2011) sole author

Understanding International Art Markets and Management, editor (Routledge, 2005) (Chinese edition- Chongqing University Press, (2013)

New Art New Markets, Lund Humphries (2017) sole author