Fair Director, START Art Fair
Grey brings with him a fresh outlook as well as his personal roster of international collectors and art world contacts;
‘As a long term exhibitor of START, I know the fair very well and I am excited to embark on this new role in stretching its boundaries and raising the fair to new heights’. – Grey Skipwith.
Together with his wife Heejin, Grey founded his gallery in 2015. Bringing together their expertise in Korean and Asian artists sincluding Kwang Young Chun, Kang-So Lee, Xing Danwen and Hyojin Park,Skipwiths’aim is to introduce their artists to European audiences.
Grey ran his own IT company for many years before returning to his roots in the art world, which he started working in at the tender age of 13.
Since 2013 Grey and Heejin have been curating shows for galleries and public institutions as well as managing artists at different needs and stages in their careers. Recent publications include co-producing Korean Art: The Power of Now, published by Thames and Hudson in 2013 and supported organising the major solo exhibition of Alex Katz in Seoul, 2018.