Curator, writer and museum director David Elliott has lived and worked in in UK, Sweden, Japan, Turkey, Germany, Australia, Ukraine, Russia, Serbia, and China. He has taught in a number of universities and art schools and
published widely about modern and contemporary art; his most recent book Art & Trousers. Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Asian Art, a collection of new and previous essays, was published by the Art Asia Pacific Foundation and Singapore UP at the end of 2021.
