Richard Chang Appointed Performa Board President, New Directors Join

Richard Chang has been named board president of Performa, effective immediately. Chang, founder of Domus Collection in Beijing and a collector based in Shanghai and New York, currently serves as Vice Chair of the International Council at Tate. He has previously held trustee positions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA PS1, and the Royal Academy of Art. Two new board members were also announced: Joyce Liu, a long-time collector and art patron who has supported Chinese artists through exhibitions at the ICA London and promotes artists in London and Hong Kong, and Ivan Pun, founder of PUN + PROJECTS in 2013 and TS1 Yangon in 2014, a pop-up art space that showcased performances and exhibitions by local Myanmar artists. In a statement, Chang praised Performa's contributions to advancing scholarship and prominence of live performance over the past decade, expressing his commitment to working with RoseLee Goldberg and the board to forge global relationships supporting the organization's mission. The announcement was made on February 10, 2017.