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Taiwan’s Gallerists Are Rerouting Their Ambitions Away From the Mainland

A new generation of dealers is opening outposts in Paris, London and Palm Beach, moving away from a decades-long reliance on Chinese collectors and markets.

Shifting away from a historical reliance on Mainland China, a wave of Taiwanese galleries is establishing outposts across major Western art capitals from Paris and London to New York and Palm Beach. Historically, cross-border expansion for Taiwanese galleries meant heading to Beijing or Shanghai. Home to one of East Asia’s earliest mature art ecosystems, Taiwan has historically produced dealers who championed mid-century Chinese modern masters like Sanyu and Zao Wou-Ki, figures whose work found ready patronage among Mainland collectors. Coupled with geographic proximity, a shared language and China’s emergence as the world’s third-largest art market, the Mainland long served as the primary growth destination.

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Today, however, a younger, internationally minded cohort of art professionals, shaped by their own diaspora experience, is pursuing global integration over regional consolidation. In July, for example, Taipei-founded PALM Gallery inaugurated its new location on 48 Rue Chapon in Paris’s Le Marais district. The opening follows similar moves by Nunu Hung of NuNu Fine Art, which opened in New York in 2023, and Bluerider ART, which opened in London’s Mayfair in 2023 before expanding to Palm Beach in 2025.

Co-founded by coloratura soprano Poya Tsai and engineer Ming Hsu, PALM Gallery built its reputation connecting Parisian galleries with Taiwanese collectors. “Because Poya is........

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