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Larry Warsh
AW Asia

Larry Warsh was the Founder and CEO of The Art Knowledge Corporation and served as its President since the Companys inception in 1993. In 2007 The Art Knowledge Corporation was purchased by LTB Holdings (owners of Art & Auction and Gallery Guide). Warsh is also the Founder of Museums Magazine, the Program Guide for Lincoln Center, and The Museum Calendar Project, which distributed over one million calendars to 5th graders in public schools in twelve cities.

 
Warsh has been involved in numerous publishing projects in the last decade, including original monographs on the work of contemporary artists. He has been an avid collector of fine art for many years, and was one the earliest collectors of works by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
 
Larry Warsh has been involved in the New York art world for more than thirty years. He possesses an extensive professional background that includes publishing, collecting, advising, and organizing exhibitions of both Western and Chinese art. Since 2000 Warsh has focused on contemporary Chinese art, exclusively photography and painting. In 2007 he founded AW Asia, a private office and exhibition space that promotes contemporary Chinese art through publishing, exhibitions, and educational programming.
 

Warsh first became interested in contemporary Chinese photography after discovering that many of Chinas greatest artists were in fact photographers. Camera's were almost forbidden during the Cultural Revolution, and Warsh believed that the medium would be important in the future. Warsh did significant research and learned that a lot of the most significant photography coming out of China was available to the West. He began to amass a collection of the most iconic works available, notably the work from the early to mid 1990s, with the foresight that these works would eventually become truly fundamental to the contemporary Chinese art field.
 
Larry Warsh is on the Contemporary Arts Council of the Asia Society and the Contemporary Arts Committee of the China Institute (chaired by Aggie Gund). He sits on the Boards of the Museum of Contemporary Art, China, Alliance for the Arts, MUSE Film and Television, and serves on The Basquiat Authentication Committee. He served on past boards of the NYC & Company and the Arts on Biz Council. Warsh is also an Honorary Trustee of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami.
 
He resides in New York City with his wife Abbey and their three children.

 

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