Brian Wallace

Brian Wallace is the Australian founder of the renowned Red Gate Gallery in Beijing, China’s first ever gallery for contemporary art. He began his time in China in 1986, studying Chinese at the People’s University in Beijing, and became entranced by Chinese contemporary art at a Beijing University exhibition in 1987. Wallace enrolled to study art history at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing from 1990-91, and soon founded Red Gate Gallery with assistance from the Chinese Bureau for the Preservation of Cultural and Historical Relics.

Wallace’s vision for diversity is notorious. Red Gate Gallery exhibits a myriad of styles and media from artists both world-famous and emerging, with emphasis entirely on quality rather than mainstream trends. The Gallery’s artist residency program, initiated in 2004, plays an important role in helping new artists to develop, and has put Red Gate into the International Association of Residential Arts Centers (Res Artis). Red Gate Gallery is revered for its status as the first gallery of its kind in China and its subsequent longevity, and is considered an essential feature of global artistic relationships.