Para Site Appoints James Taylor-Foster as Executive Director

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Para Site has announced that James Taylor-Foster will join the organisation as Executive Director in summer 2026, coinciding with the institution’s 30th anniversary. The appointment signals a new chapter for the Hong Kong–based contemporary art centre, reinforcing its commitment to independent expression and artistic experimentation both locally and internationally.

Taylor-Foster’s work bridges contemporary art, design, architecture and digital culture. As a convenor and curator, his practice often blurs disciplinary boundaries, exploring unconventional ways of nurturing institutions and engaging audiences.

His approach positions institutions as both greenhouse and staging ground—cultivating emerging ideas while creating ambitious platforms that bring together different forms of cultural production. Through this work, he examines how creativity continually reshapes public life and popular culture.

“Para Site is one of a kind. Its roots as an artist-founded cultural space, born from a unique condition with local and regional creative scenes as its engine, remains its soul. Today, as then, contemporary art is our present interrogating itself. At its most powerful, it makes room for thinking in public, fuelling culture more broadly,” says Taylor-Foster.

Taylor-Foster will officially begin his role as Executive Director of Para Site in summer 2026.