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EDUCATION

1997-2000  PhD, Department of Arts Policy & Management, City, University of London

Thesis: The Emerging Art Markets of Greater China 1989-1999

SPECIALIST TEACHING AND RESEARCH FIELDS

•    Global art business

•    Regional and international art markets

•    Emerging art and its markets

•    The art eco-system

•    Cultural developments of art cities/hubs

•    Art as an alternative investment

•    Business management of the art world

•    Public and private art sectors

•    Central government and QANGO funding

•    China's Belt-and-Road Initiative

•    Auction business

•    Provenance research and due diligence

•    Collection management

•    History of art (European / Asian / Middle Eastern / North American)

•    Contemporary art practices

•    Chinese art

•    Western art

NOTABLE POSITIONS (Selected)

•    2023-2027  Advisor to Korea international art fair (KIAF)

•    2022-2024  Honorary Fellow, Sotheby's Institute of Art, London

•    2019-present  Advisor, Xia Jing Shan Arts and Culture Foundation, Taipei, ROC

•    2018-present  Advisor and Board Member, Armenia Art Fair and Armenia Art Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia

•    2016-present  Board member, TIAMSA (The International Art Market Studies Association)

•    2016-2020  Guest lecturer and Keynote speaker (conference), Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, PRC

EMPLOYMENT  (Selected)

2022 - 2026/8  Hongik University. Professor, Department of Art & Cultural Management. Seoul, South Korea

2022 - 2024  Sotheby's Institute of Art. Honorary Fellow. London, UK

2020-2024  Journal Art and the Market: Caucasus and Beyond. Editor-in-chief, London, UK

2012-2016  Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) Advisor to the Corporate Collection in London

2008-2014  Art Market Report. Art Market Editor. (four issues a year)

2006-2010  Cass Business School (now renamed as Bayes), City, University of London. BSc. Programme Leader, Art and Antiques market (elective)

2004 - 2021  Sotheby's Institute of Art. Head of Art Business Studies. London, UK

RESEARCH PROJECTS

•    2025  Humanities and Social Research Institute support Projects South Korea. Introducing cultural policy and the market to professionals ($2million)

•    2025  Australian Korean Foundation NFT Project

•    2025  Exhibition, conference and books on Modern and contemporary Armenian art

BOOKS

•    Robertson, I. AI and the Asia Pivot (2026) Asia, Algorithms and the Future of the Art market. Routledge. Oxon, NY

•    Robertson, I. Chong, D and Afonso, L., (Editors) (2025) Global Art Markets. History and Current Trends. Routledge, Oxon, NY

•    Robertson, I., (2022) A Pathway Through Modern and Contemporary Armenian Art. Gulbenkian Foundation Armenian Art Foundation. Illustrated 204 pages

•    Robertson, I., (2018) New Art New Markets. Lund Humphries. London. Illustrated 256 pages

•    Robertson, I., and Hackforth-Jones, J., (Editors) (2016) Art Business Today: 20 Key Topics. London: Lund Humphries. London. Illustrated 223 pages

•    Robertson, I., (2016) Understanding Art Markets. Inside the World of Art and Business. Routledge, Oxon, NY. Korean edition (2017). Chinese (2017), e-book Chinese edition (2020). Illustrated 337 pages

•    Robertson, I., (2011) A New Art from Emerging Markets. Lund Humphries. London. Illustrated 208 pages

•    Robertson, I and Chong, D., (Editors) (2008) The Art Business. Routledge. Oxon, NY. 233 pages

•    Robertson, I., (Editor) (2005) Understanding International Art markets and Management. Routledge, Oxon, NY. Chinese edition 2010. Illustrated, 280 pages.

OURNAL ARTICLES(Selected)

•    Robertson, I, Nan Seol (2026) The Shape of Space, the Temperature of Trust: The Genesis of Value in the Jiangnan Art World, 1500-2025. (In Process)

•    Robertson, I, Kim Keechang (2025) A Strategic Image Transformation Analysis of K-Pop Idols from Stardom Theory Perspective: Focussing on BlackPink's New Song

'Jump': Journal of Popular Music Studies. (About to Submit)

•    Robertson, I (2025) The Current State of the Korean art market for contemporary art: its potential to become the leading international centre in Asia. Journal of Arts Management Law and Society. (under review)

•    Robertson, I (2024) Does Cultural Regeneration work? The Tate Gallery Liverpool and the Greater Albert Dock Re-development. Journal of Arts and Cultural Management pps170-184

•    KiHoon Hong, Iain Robertson, Jiye Ryu Keunbae Ahn. (2024) Consistency and Discrepancy in Fine Art Investment: Irrational Behaviour and Potential Arbitrage Investors' Perception, Behaviour and Reality Review of Behavioural Finance

•    Robertson. I (2024) Arts and Ethics: Overview in the Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Religion OUP. The Art Market: Renaissance to the present day. Morality and the art market. Oxford Encyclopaedia of Religion and the Arts in the West

•    Robertson, I ( 2020) The Evolution of a Consolidated Market for Neo-Traditional Chinese Contemporary Art' Arts 2020, 9(4),121 (25 November 2020).The Contemporary Market.

•    Robertson, I., (2018) 'A Comparative Study of the Influence of Political Systems on the Art Markets of East Asia and China', The Journal of Arts and the Market, 8:2, pp.123-136

•    Robertson, I., (2016) Art Market Crashes and Bubbles. Grove Dictionary of Art. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press

CATALOGUE ESSAYS AND CURATED EXHIBITIONS

•    Robertson, I (2025) The Way We Live Now: Sun Gallery, Seoul

•    Robertson, I (2025) Felix Park. Passion: Part I Hidden Forest in a Room and Part II Forest, Expansion of Passion: A Patterned Order K-Liz Gallery, Seoul

•    Robertson, I (2025) Emotional landscapes. The art of Ji Hyunjung. New works created in 2025 K-Liz Gallery, Seoul

•    Robertson, I. (2024) Water and prose Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York

•    Robertson, I (2024) Looking down at London, Sun Gallery, Seoul

•    Robertson, I. (2021) Mutability, The art of Etsu Egami. Whitestone Gallery, Taiwan

SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS (Selected)

•    Art in the post-Soviet world: Armenia and the Caucasus: The collapse of the Soviet Union and the emerging art market. University of Lisbon Nov 2024

•    A paper and presentation Museums for Education and Research 18th international Conference. The Korean Museum Association May 2024

•    Presentation, 'Art and Technology: Limitless Possibilities through Innovation', Future Dialogue for Global Innovation 2022, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea, Dec 2022

•    Keynote speech, 'Arts and Cultural Governance in Transition: Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts', Hongik University, Dec 2022