Magnus Renfrew is Fair Director of ART HK: Hong Kong International Art Fair, a position he has held since the Fair's inception in 2007. ART HK has been instrumental in repositioning Hong Kong as the centre of the modern and contemporary art market in Asia.

Born in 1975, Magnus Renfrew was brought up in Cambridge, UK, and educated at The Leys School, Cambridge and the University of St Andrews where he gained a 1st Class MA (Hons) and the OE Saunders Class Prize for Art History.

Renfrew has over a decade's experience in the international art world and has been regularly recognised for his contribution by industry media including: ART + AUCTION Magazine in their ‘Power Issue’ as one of 15 Individuals ‘without whom the art world would not spin on its axis’ (December 2008) | CANS - Chinese Art News as one of the ten most influential people in the art scene in Asia (January 2009) | ART REVIEW in their 'Power 100' issue as one of the 100 most influential figures in the international art world (November 2010) and by Le Journal des Arts in their ‘Les 100 personnalités les plus influentes du monde de l’art’ (February 2011).

In July 2011 MCH Group, the parent company of Art Basel, acquired a majority stake in Asian Art Fairs Ltd, the owners of ART HK: Hong Kong International Art Fair, securing for the long term the position for ART HK as one of the leading art fairs in the world. 

Magnus Renfrew lives and works in Hong Kong.