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Today's world is ever more globalized and increasingly interconnected—and that ways the emergence of a new kind of multi-millionaire and billionaire with currency to spare (see The Height ten Uber-Rich Art Collectors). Across their tendency to snap upwards properties of every shade, from penthouses to boats to businesses, this generation of tycoons, celebrities, and philanthropists are more than regularly turning to some other fourth dimension-tested form of ritual consumption with a range of cultural benefits: fine art collecting. Be they heirs to Middle Eastern fortunes or immature pioneers in the tech industry (run into Meet twenty of the World'south Near Innovative Fine art Collectors), art collectors in the 21st century represent a demographic more widely varied than always before.

To chronicle our times and these champions of the arts who hail from all corners of the planet and every possible background, artnet News has compiled the ultimate 2-part list. Our roster of collectors features those who have been most active within the past 12 months and have shown a remarkable commitment to collecting.

We acknowledge that the lineup is heavily skewed toward male collectors based in the US, but beyond the usual suspects, nosotros've done our best to cast a light on collectors you may non have yet heard about. Nosotros're impressed by the number of influential women who made the cut (run into The 100 Nearly Powerful Women in Art: Part Ane), as well as the marked contingent of younger Chinese men and women including Richard Chang, David Chau and Kelly Ying, Adrian Cheng, and Lin Han.

Some collectors are profiled in depth, while others, our "Collectors to Watch"—including emerging connoisseurs, those who are operating under the radar, and those who were in one case very active fifty-fifty if they've been quieter in recent years—are incorporated past name only.

Organized alphabetically, the index is the culmination of a three-calendar month process that began with a poll of experts in the industry—including dealers, fine art advisers, and other insiders—and involved the efforts of staff and freelance author Emily Nathan. (Encounter Artnet News Superlative 200 Art Collectors Worldwide For 2015, Part 2).

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Roman Abramovich and Dasha Zhukova (Russian federation)
Moscow-built-in Dasha Zhukova opened the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture in 2008 in Moscow (see Dasha Zhukova to Debut Moscow's Rem Koolhaas–Designed Garage Museum June 12), and, with her partner Roman Abramovich (the owner of England's Chelsea Football Club) she is now developing "New Holland," a nineteen-acre island in St. petersburg, into a similar artistic hub. Together, they recently bought the world's largest collection of works by Ilya Kabakov (the priciest living Russian artist). Her collection is now legendary, containing thousands of by and large gimmicky artworks. Her husband seems to prefer modern and Impressionist art, if auction records are whatsoever guide.

Robbie Antonio. Photo: Courtesy of Clint Spaulding/ Patrick McMullan.

Robbie Antonio (Philippines)
Real estate developer Antonio's Manila home was designed by Rem Koolhaas—the first residential commission the architect had taken on in 15 years—and it houses the Filipino collector's private collection. His electric current obsession is a serial of portraits of himself that he has deputed from some of the world's hottest gimmicky artists (he has already paid $3 million for the ii dozen that have been completed), including Julian Schnabel, Marilyn Minter, David Salle, Zhang Huan, the Bruce High Quality Foundation, and Takashi Murakami.

Bernard and Hélène Arnault. Photo: Courtesy of Baton Farrell/Patrick McMullan.

Hélène and Bernard Arnault (France)
Chairman and chief executive officeholder of the Louis Vuitton Foundation, Arnault is the richest homo in France. His newest creation, the Frank Gehry–designed Louis Vuitton Foundation, opened in the Bois de Boulogne this past October (come across Equally a Museum, Frank Gehry'south Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris Disappoints), with commissioned works by the likes of Olafur Eliasson, Ellsworth Kelly, Sarah Morris, and Taryn Simon. His collection spans many thousands of contemporary and mod artworks.

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Bill and Maria Bong (United States)
Maria, the quondam caput writer of CBS'due southThe Young and the Restless, a chair of the National Art Awards, and a former board co-chair of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), got her start collecting modestly priced George Hurrell photos, and has always favored the work of idiosyncratic gimmicky producers like Francesco Vezzoli and Mark Ryden. Her husband Nib's taste tends toward the more than iconic, including works by Marcel Duchamp. Early on in their collecting career together, the Bells were fatigued to Andy Warhol, but, as they recently told the New York Observer, they wanted to look to more contemporary producers—and accounted Jeff Koons an advisable choice. These days, they have amassed a substantial collection of works past Koons, along with many other mega names.

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Peter Benedek (United States)
Peter Benedek, co-founder of United Talent Agency and one of Hollywood's most powerful agents, began collecting art some 20 years ago, and has since filled nearly all the walls of his Brentwood home and his Beverly Hills office with works by some of the biggest names in modern and contemporary art—from David Hockney and Gerhard Richter to Alex Katz, Milton Avery, and even Francis Picabia and Giorgio Morandi. He is reported to have purchased a John Currin nude long before the painter was a hot proper name, and an Alice Neel portrait of dealer Robert Graham—which he purchased at auction—still hangs in his office: "It's great to accept an agent looking at me every day," he told the Hollywood Reporter.

Debra and Leon Black. Photo: patrickmcmullan.com

Debra and Leon Black (United States)
Possessor of Apollo Global Management, Phaidon Books, and Artspace Marketplace, so-called "buyouts man" Black is reported to take a fortune of $5.four billion. In 2012, he made waves when he purchased one of iv existing versions of Edvard Munch's The Scream for $119.nine million—at the time, the highest price e'er paid for a piece of work of fine art at an sale.

Christian and Karen Boros. Photo: Courtesy FvF/ Wolfgang Stahr.

Christian and Karen Boros (Germany)
In 2003, advertisement agency founder and publisher Christian Boros purchased a former Nazi air raid shelter in key Berlin, and transformed it into the Bunker, an 80-room exhibition space for contemporary fine art. Featured artists from Boros's personal drove of some 700 works include gimmicky stars like Elmgreen & Dragset, Sarah Lucas, and Rirkrit Tiravanija, classics like Olafur Eliasson (a Boros favorite, with 30 works in his collection), Franz Ackermann, Wolfgang Tillmans, Ed Ruscha, Damien Hirst, and Terence Koh, and even members of a new generation of Berlin-based artists, including Thea Djordjadze, Alicja Kwade, Klara Lidén, Michael Sailstorfer, and Danh Vo.

Norman and Irma Braman. Photograph: patrickmcmullan.com

Irma and Norman Braman (United States)
Since they began collecting in 1979—they barbarous in dearest with sculptures by Alexander Calder and Joan Miró at the Maeght Foundation in southern French republic, as the story goes—auto-industry magnate Braman and his wife Irma have built a veritable empire of modern and contemporary fine art. Dividing their residences among France, Colorado, and Florida, the couple helped plant Art Basel in Miami Embankment in 2002, and they are now unmarried-handedly funding the design and construction of Due south Florida's newest major museum, the Institute of Contemporary Fine art, Miami.

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Peter Brant (U.s.a.)
The owner of Interview magazine (which he bought straight from its founder, Andy Warhol), besides equally Art in America and Antiques, and the creator of the Brant Foundation in Greenwich, Connecticut (see Is the Brant Foundation a Tax Scam or an Art Investment Vehicle?), Brant is known for his baddest drove of primarily American fine art, though his contempo acquisitions include Vancouver artist Steven Shearer. Brant made news recently when he purchased artist Walter de Maria'due south 16,400-square-foot East Sixth Street studio and home for $27 million (see Peter Brant Paid $27 Million for Walter De Maria's Old Studio); he has already hosted a evidence by Dan Colen in the infinite (run across Peter Brant Hosts Dan Colen Evidence in Walter De Maria Studio), and many speculate that he will transform information technology into an exhibition venue.

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Eli Broad (U.s.a.)
Widely considered ane of Los Angeles's leading fine art patrons, entrepreneur Broad and his wife Edythe have been collecting for over v decades, assembling ane of the world's almost prominent collections of postwar and contemporary art (see ten Los Angeles Art Power Couples You Need To Know). They are currently building the Broad, a $140-million showcase designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro which volition house their vast trove and is slated to open up its doors in the fall of 2015 (see Broad Museum Director Opens Upward About First Exhibition and Eli Broad Sues Museum Contractor for $20 Million Over Delays). Among the nearly recent acquisitions to the withal-growing collection (see Kusama, Kentridge, and Kjartansson Amidst Eli Broad's Latest Acquisitions) are Jordan Wolfson'due south multimedia, animatronic sculpture Female person figure (2014) (run across Eli Broad Adds Jordan Wolfson's Terrifying Robot to Collection), Yayoi Kusama'southward immersive Infinity Mirrored Room – The Souls of Millions of Low-cal Years Away (2013); Ragnar Kjartansson's video installation The Visitors (2012) (encounter Kara Walker, Ragnar Kjartansson, Henri Matisse, Robert Gober and More Win AICA Awards); and William Kentridge's sculptural video work The Refusal of Time (2012).

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Frieder Burda. Photo: Courtesy of Joe Schildhorn/ Patrick McMullan.

Frieder Burda (Deutschland)
The son of a renowned German publisher and art collector, Burda bought his offset picture, a Lucio Fontana, in his early 30s, and in 2004 he opened his Frieder Burda Museum in Baden-Baden. The drove has now grown to include more than 1,000 works of fine art. Like his father, Burda focuses on established modern movements such as German Expressionism (Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, August Macke, Max Beckmann) and Abstract Expressionism (Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning), and he has acquired a substantial collection of works by his German contemporaries, amid them Sigmar Polke, Georg Baselitz, and Gerhard Richter.

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Richard Chang (The states)
American-Chinese investment professional Richard Chang, the founder of the Domus Collection, is a trustee of the Royal Academy in London, a member of Tate's International Council and its Asia-Pacific Acquisitions Committee, and a trustee of MoMA PS1 and the Whitney Museum in New York, where he is also co-founder and chair of the functioning commission. Dividing time betwixt New York and Beijing, he is considered key in bridging Western and Asian art; he often sponsors special projects, such equally Beijing-based artist Huang Ran's characteristic filmThe Administration of Celebrity in 2013 (which was selected for the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2014—see 31-Yr-Old Artist Ran Huang Selected for Cannes' Palmes d'Or), and Pipilotti Rist's kickoff exhibition in Red china, at the Times Museum in Guangzhou.

Kim Chang-il (Korea)
Founder of the recently launched Arario Museum, Kim Chang-il is one of Korea's pinnacle gallerists as well as collectors, and is also an artist. His collection began with an interest in contemporary and modern Korean artists, simply, every bit reported by the Huffington Mail service, a visit to MOCA in Los Angeles in 1981 inspired him to expand his collection. His holdings now number around iii,700 pieces, and include work from Korean contemporaries as well as YBAs, members of the Leipzig School, and immature artists from China, India, and Southeast Asia, as well as respected large-name artists from the Due west.

David Chau and Kelly Ying (China)
Based in Shanghai, David Chau and his wife, Kelly Ying, acquired the bulk of their wealth from David'due south fleet-management company, and estimate that they spend around $1.five 1000000 annually on fine art acquisitions. Chau ready a $32-1000000 fine art investment fund when he was 21, and is the financial capitalist of two galleries, Leo Xu'south and Simon Wang's Antenna Space. He is also the co-founder, with Ying, of Shanghai's newest fine art off-white, Art021. Their personal collection is anchored by piece of work by three immature Chinese artists, Liu Wei, Xu Zhen, and Yang Fudong, likewise equally an extensive pick of video art.

Pierre Tm Chen. Photograph: Courtesy of Sotheby's/ Andrew Loiterton.

Pierre T.M. Chen (Taiwan)
Chen made his commencement purchase in 1976 while notwithstanding a student—a wooden sculpture by Chinese artist Cheung Yee. Information technology took him a twelvemonth and a one-half to salve up the funds to exercise then. Today, the computer engineer's extensive collection features hundreds of paintings and sculptures by baddest artists including Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Henry Moore, Les Lalanne, Antony Gormley, Cai Guo-Qiang, and Jeff Koons. He is currently most excited by Western contemporary fine art, and purchases rather emotionally: he is said to have bought an untitled Cy Twombly because it made him feel "at-home" and a xanthous Warhol Fright Wig because he found it "so fresh."

Adrian Cheng. Photograph: Courtesy of Larry'south List.

Adrian Cheng (China)
One of the globe's youngest billionaires, Cheng is heir to a holding-evolution fortune in Asia. He graduated from Harvard and has gone on to plant the nonprofit K11 Art Foundation, which supports fine art villages in Wuhan and Guiyang, China; its collection focuses on international artists, such as Yoshitomo Nara and Olafur Eliasson, while Cheng'southward own personal collection includes piece of work by Chinese artists such as Zhang Enli. In 2012 Cheng was also invited to bring together Tate'south Asia-Pacific Acquisitions Commission.

Kemal Has Cingillioglu (Great britain)
Son of Turkish financier Halit Cingillioglu, Kemal Has Cingillioglu serves as a member of the European advisory board at Christie's. He made headlines this past twelvemonth when he purchased Cy Twombly's 1960s work Untitled (Rome) for $iv.4 million at Christie's.

Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. Photo: patrickmcmullan.com

Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (Venezuela and Dominican Republic)
Phelps de Cisneros is one of the world's most prominent collectors of Latin American art, and her trove contains some 2,000 works ranging across colonial, modern, and contemporary periods, forth with ethnographic objects from the Americas. She sits on the board of MoMA, and London's Royal Academy recently presented an exhibition of ninety works in geometric abstraction that were drawn from her holdings.

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Steven Cohen (United states of america)
Billionaire former hedge fund manager Steven Cohen, who is reportedly worth some $11.1 billion, is said to spend 20 pct of his income on art, with a collection that famously includes a Pollock drip painting and Damien Hirst's iconic shark piece, which he bought from Charles Saatchi for $eight million in 2004. In 2006, he offered to buy Picasso'south Le Rêve from Steve Wynn for $139 million, but Wynn accidentally put his elbow through the painting and the deal was off until last twelvemonth, when Cohen finally purchased the painting, at present repaired, for $155 one thousand thousand. He was also the secret buyer of the Alberto Giacometti sculpture Chariot in November, which he bought at Sotheby's for a near-record $100,965,000.

Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz. Photo: patrickmcmullan.com

Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz (United States)
Carlos de la Cruz is the chairman of a $one billion-per-twelvemonth business empire that includes Coca-Cola bottling plants in Trinidad and Tobago and Puerto Rico. Along with his wife Rosa, he is known for staging country-of-the-art annual exhibitions that coincide with Art Basel Miami Beach. These were initially held in their private Miami residence, but are now staged at their eponymous three-story, 30,000-square-foot art space, which they opened in 2009. The couple is keen on acquiring works from across the wide range of contemporary American product, nigh recently purchasing pieces by Dan Colen and Nate Lowman.

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Dimitris Daskalopoulos. Photo: Courtesy Trevor Leighton.

Dimitris Daskalopoulos (Greece)
Across his vast collection of contemporary art, Greek nutrient and drinkable entrepreneur Daskalopoulos is a member of the lath of trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Tate International Quango, the Director's Vision Council of the Museum of Gimmicky Art Chicago, and the Leadership Council of New York's New Museum. He is also a founding partner of the Whitechapel Gallery's Time to come Fund. In 2014 he was honored by Independent Curators International (ICI) with the Leo Award, which celebrates a "visionary" approach to collecting. He is also a champion of the contemporary fine art scene in his home state, and recently founded a nonprofit, NEON, committed to bringing contemporary culture to everyone in Greece.

Zöe and Joel Dictrow. Photograph: patrickmcmullan.com

Zöe andJoel Dictrow (United States)
These long-fourth dimension W Village residents, Zoe a erstwhile mag advertising manager and Joel a former Citigroup executive, have lived in the same apartment for four decades, though they eventually purchased two neighboring apartments to accommodate their expanding art drove. They are known for their support of emerging artists, but their holdings include work by established producers like Gerhard Richter, Robert Gober, Cindy Sherman and Sarah Sze.

George Economou. Photo: Courtesy of Nicholas Hunt/ Patrick McMullan.

George Economou (Hellenic republic)
The Greek shipping magnate has a predilection for paintings and drawings, especially of the 20th-century German and Austrian persuasion, and he ofttimes purchases work by lesser-known artists, or minor works by large-name producers, from Picasso, Twombly and Magritte to Kees van Dongen. A prolific collector, he acquires between 150 to 200 works a year, and usually chooses to go through smaller auction houses and galleries based in Germany and Austria rather than Sotheby's or Christie's.

Alan Faena. Photo: Courtesy Patrick McMullan/ Patrick McMullan.

Alan Faena (Argentine republic)
Argentine republic's most successful hotelier and real estate developer, Faena is an avid collector of Latin American art. In Dec of 2015, he aims to debut his new exhibition infinite, a Rem Koolhaas–designed structure called the Faena Forum, opening in Miami.

Harald Falckenberg. Photo: via Wikipedia.

Harald Falckenberg (Federal republic of germany)
Ane of the globe's most respected art collectors, Falckenberg has received the Art Cologne Prize and the Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award, and published numerous books on art. Known for his ability to stay alee of the art marketplace, he was amongst the first collectors to purchase works past now-major figures like Martin Kippenberger, Richard Prince, and Jonathan Meese, and his drove comprises over 2,000 pieces, shown in a 65,000-square-foot onetime manufacturing plant building in Hamburg in collaboration with Deichtorhallen/Hamburg.

Mark Falcone and Ellen Bruss.

Mark Falcone and Ellen Bruss (United states of america)
Real-estate developer Falcone and his wife Ellen Bruss live next door to the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver in a home designed for them past architect David Adjaye. In contempo years they take become avid collectors of Mexican fine art, and their collection now includes works past Gonzalo Lebrija, Eduardo Sarabia, and Federico Solmi, besides as Denver artists Stephen Batura, David Zimmer, Adam Milner, Bill Stockman, and Mary Erhin.

Amy and Vernon Faulconer. Photo: patrickmcmullan.com

Amy and Vernon Faulconer (United States)
Founded by oil and gas magnate Vernon Faulconer and his wife Amy, the Amy and Vernon Faulconer Collection contains painting, sculpture, photography, video, and installation works made from 1945 to the nowadays, with notable contributions by such artists as Cecily Dark-brown, John Chamberlain, Francesco Clemente, Donald Judd, Anish Kapoor, Anselm Kiefer, Martin Kippenberger, Bridget Riley, James Turell, and Kara Walker, among many others. Together with his friends and swain Texan super-collectors the Rachofskys, the Falconers opened the Warehouse in 2012, in function to accommodate works that were too large for the Faulconer's individual home.

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Howard and Patricia Farber (Us)
The Farbers fell in beloved with the fine art of Cuba during a visit to the island in 2001, and have since created a stunning collection of some 200 pieces by artists including Belkis Ayón, Abel Barroso, Tania Bruguera, Los Carpinteros, Sandra Ramos, Duvier del Dago, Carlos Garaicoa, René Peña, and Rocío García.

Marilyn and Larry Fields. Photograph: patrickmcmullan.com

Larry and Marilyn Fields (United states)
Lawyer and former commodities trader Larry and his married woman Marilyn, 1 of Chicago's well-nigh prominent collecting couples, have amassed an array of some 500 objects from almost 300 living artists, 150 of which are installed in their private residence, and many of which have a political aptitude. The collection includes many pieces by African-American artists such every bit Kara Walker, Glenn Ligon, Mark Bradford, and Theaster Gates, whom they have been collecting in depth. Recent acquisitions include works by David Hammons, Jim Hodges, and Christopher Wool.

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Amanda and Glenn Fuhrman. Photograph: patrickmcmullan.com

Amanda and Glenn Fuhrman (United States)
Fuhrman, co-managing partner of MSD Capital, studied fine art history and was recently listed past Business Insider amongst the most serious art collectors on Wall Street. He is a trustee of the MoMA, is a trustee of Tate Americas Foundation, is a board member of the Institute of Contemporary Fine art in Philadelphia, and is founder of The FLAG Art Foundation in New York.

David and Danielle Ganek. Photo: patrickmcmullan.com

Danielle and David Ganek (United States)
A one-time equity trader for SAC Majuscule and a trustee of the Guggenheim, Ganek and his married woman, editor and novelist Danielle, accept a sprawling art collection that includes work past Richard Prince, Diane Arbus, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, John Currin, and Mike Kelley. David bought his first work of fine art at the historic period of 17, and has since gone on to commission piece of work from mega-hot contemporary artists such as Ed Ruscha, whom he hired to create a painting incorporating the word "Level" for the walls of his firm'due south Greenwich headquarters in 2003.

Ingvild Goetz (Germany)
Former gallerist Ingvild Goetz began to collect media art in the 1990s, and today she owns 1 of the largest private collections of video art and media works in the globe. Her Goetz Collection, housed in a private museum designed past Herzog & de Meuron in Munich, is said to contain effectually v,000 works of contemporary art—many of them by emerging artists and nearly half of them by women.

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Ken Griffin (United States)
Chicago-based Griffin, who recently divorced his wife Anne Dias (a board member at the Museum of Modern Art, a trustee of the Foundation for Gimmicky Art and the Whitney Museum), has reportedly merely ever sold 1 artwork from his collection. Caput of the $xx billion investment firm Citadel, Griffin is extremely detail when information technology comes to acquisitions, and only buys masterpieces that he feels can hold their own aslope the few dozen pieces he already owns by Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet and Jasper Johns. (In 2006, he paid David Geffen $80 meg for Jasper Johns's 1959 painting False Offset—a record cost at the fourth dimension for a living artist.)

Agnes GundPhoto: Owen Hoffmann/Patrick McMullan

Agnes Gund (United States)
Beloved fine art patron Agnes Gund is practically New York'southward philanthropist-in-main; she once told the New York Times that she gives abroad "more money than I really have," not only to art organizations just also to causes like sex activity trafficking and abortion rights. Her 2,000-piece of work collection includes works by artists like Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, and Frank Stella, only she's also known to collect female and black artists, including Lynda Benglis, Teresita Fernandez, and Kara Walker, and lesser-known artists like the Scottish Richard Wright, from whom she commissioned a landscape on her dining room ceiling. Amid her causes, likewise, is one that might groom the next generation of aspiring artists and collectors: Studio in a School, which she founded in the '70s and which teaches fine art in nether-resourced New York City schools.

Steven and Kathy Guttman (United States)
Real-estate magnate Guttman'south collecting bug started when he would take his dog on walks in Washington, D.C., and check out the furniture in his neighbors' houses—a exercise which soon grew to include a penchant for ownership everything from dressers, sofas, chairs, cabinets, and tables crafted by British and American folk artists to contemporary paintings and photographs. Today, he and his wife Kathy have a more than 500-slice collection of art including conceptual, LED, and wooden works past Andreas Eriksson, Jim Campbell, Analia Saban and Cheyney Thompson, among many others, stored among houses and storage spaces in Paris, New York and Maryland—including his $seventy-meg, state-of-the-fine art storage facility in Long Island City, named "UOVO," Italian for "egg," in reference to the fragility of the space's precious cargo.

Andrew and Christine Hall (United states of america)
The British-born Hall, a former Citigroup trader and hedge fund manager who also dabbles in organic farming, and his wife, Christine, take a collection of postwar and contemporary fine art that includes works by Eric Fischl, A. R. Penck, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Franz West and Malcolm Morley. In 2012, they opened the Hall Fine art Foundation in Vermont, in exhibition partnership with the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, and they are working to organize a long-term installation of artworks past Anselm Kiefer from their drove. Most recently, the Halls have been busy converting a castle in Germany, the former domicile and studio of Georg Baselitz, into a museum that volition open up adjacent year.

Lin Han (China)
Although he has simply been collecting for a few years, Han—who studied at a secondary schoolhouse in Singapore before pursuing a degree in animation design at Northumbria University in the United Kingdom —recently opened the 1000 Forest Museum with his wife Wanwan Lei, in the center of Beijing'south art district, to bear witness off his personal collection of over 200 artworks. Lei studied arts administration at China's Central Fine art Academy and Columbia University in New York; Han's outset art purchase was a Zeng Fanzhi painting in 2013, and he has recently purchased piece of work by such artists as Tracey Emin, Kader Attia and Chen Fei.

Henk and Victoria de Heus-Zomer (Holland)
Henk and Victoria de Heus-Zomer, who fabricated their fortune in the cattle-food industry, began collecting art in 1989, when they moved into a new home and reportedly needed something "to fill the empty walls." They take since anticipated many trends in the market—acquiring works by such artists equally Zhang Xiaogang and Ai Weiwei long before the international art world took discover of them—and they have become avid collectors of other gimmicky Chinese artists as well. Theirs is at present one of the largest contemporary fine art collections in the Netherlands.

Grant Hill. Photograph: Barry Gossag

Grant Hill (United States)
Vii time NBA All-Star Grant Hill was showtime introduced to art past his begetter. For years he has been considered 1 of the world's leading collectors of African American fine fine art, with a collection that includes piece of work by Elizabeth Catlett, Romare Bearden, Hughie Lee-Smith, John T. Biggers, Phoebe Beasely, Malcolm Brown, Edward Jackson, John Coleman and Arthello Beck, Jr. His collection was the source of a multi-city touring show "Something All Our Own,"which was seen in seven cities, including at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, his alma mater. Hill, who has amassed a major collection, remains an active collector and philanthropist.

Maja Hoffmann. Photo: Courtesy of Will Ragozzino/ Patrick McMullan.

Maja Hoffmann (Switzerland)
Founder of the LUMA Foundation and daughter of Luc Hoffmann of the Hoffmann-La Roche pharmaceutical fortune, Hoffmann is a Tate trustee, and she sits on the boards of the Palais de Tokyo, New York's New Museum and CCS Bard, to name but a few. In July of 2013, her Foundation was granted permission to transform a 20-acre former train station in Arles, French republic, into a new fine art campus, designed by Frank Gehry and slated for completion in 2018.

Erika Hoffmann-Koenige. Photograph: Courtesy of the Hoffmann Collection.

Erika Hoffmann-Koenige (Frg)
Collecting since the 1960s, Erika Hoffmann-Koenig moved to Berlin with her late hubby Rolf, a property programmer, shortly after German unification in 1990, and installed their collection of largely conceptual contemporary fine art in their private residence, which they set in a old sewing machine manufactory. Occasionally open to the public, their international collection ranges across all mediums; it was founded with works from the Italian Arte Povera movement and the Zero group (their first purchase, in 1968, was a sculpture by the Greek artist Vlassilakis Takis), and also features a substantial collection of Soviet Constructivist works, likewise as works by Blinky Palermo, John Bock, Lawrence Wiener, and Andy Warhol, amidst many others.

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Michael and Susan Hort. Photo: courtesy of David Willems Photography.

Michael and Susan Hort (United states)
One of New York'south about respected collecting couples (come across Five Major Art Collectors Reveal Their Vacation Wish Lists)—with a reputation as bold patrons of immature and emerging artists, some of whom do not fifty-fifty have gallery representation when the Horts brainstorm buying—Susan and Michael Hort continue to install selections from their holdings of some 3,000 works between their 4-floor Tribeca habitation and their rural New Bailiwick of jersey dwelling house. For the past xiii years, they have opened their Tribeca space to a select crowd of VIPs and art aficionados during Armory Week (see Desire a Peek Inside the Sectional Hort Family Collection?); curated by Jamie Cohen Hort, their daughter-in-law (married to their son, Peter Hort, who together are a notable young collecting couple), the viewings feature works by artists ranging from the likes of Cindy Sherman, Thomas Houseago, and John Currin to practically unknown talents, and can bring upward to 3,000 visitors per 24-hour interval. The Horts continue to champion the arts through their ain personal collecting and through their Rema Hort Mann Foundation, a nonprofit they set upward in honour of their late girl.

Guillaume Houzé. Photo: Courtesy of Bertrand Rindoff/ Getty Images.

Guillaume Houzé (France)
Heir to his family'due south chain of Galeries Lafayette department stores, Guillaume Houzé has been presenting artwork in La Galerie des Galeries, a space inside the flagship branch, since 2005, along with his grandmother. His own collection includes works by Cyprien Gaillard, Wade Guyton, Tatiana Trouvé, Ugo Rondinone and David Noonan, and he is planning to open a permanent art foundation in Paris's Marais district in 2016.

Wang Jianlin. Photo: via Wikipedia.

Wang Jianlin (Red china)
The president of the Dalian Wanda Group, 1 of People's republic of china's largest real-estate developers—with a reported fortune of some $xviii billion—Jianlin is currently battling entrepreneur Jack Ma for the title of richest man in Mainland china. He recently purchased a Picasso painting, Claude and Paloma, for $28.ii meg (see Are Chinese Collectors Driving Global Fine art Marketplace Rebound?).

Dakis Joannou. Photo: Courtesy of Yiorgos Kaplanidis.

Dakis Joannou (Greece)
Greek-Cypriot billionaire industrialist and founder of the DESTE Foundation of Contemporary Art in Athens (equally well as its outpost on the isle of Hydra), Joannou has been assembling a blue-chip drove of contemporary fine art since the mid-1980s. Although his enormous holdings cantankerous genres, periods, and geographies, including Baroque figurines, Cypriot antiquities, couture, drawings, and modernist furniture, his more than gimmicky interests include the work of such artists as Andro Wekua, Seth Toll, Tauba Auerbach, Haim Steinbach, William Kentridge, and Pawel Althamer, among others.

Alan Lau (China)
A member of the Asia-Pacific Acquisitions Commission at Tate London and of the board at nonprofit art infinite Para Site in Hong Kong—and a fixture on the art-conference circuit—Lau is one of the most influential Asian fine art collectors active today. He started collecting under x years ago, and his vast collection of Asian and Western art includes names like Nam June Paik, Ai Weiwei, Cao Fei, Lee Kit, Tsang Kin-Wah, Kwan Sheung Chi, Chow Chun Fai, Tozer Pak, and Olafur Eliasson, among others. (Lau besides made the cutting for artnet News' 2014 list of Most Innovative Art Collectors.)

Joseph Lau (China)
With a fortune recently estimated by Forbes at $iv.iii billion, Chinese real-manor investor Joseph Lau started collecting more than thirty years ago, and is celebrated for his drove of modern and contemporary art, peculiarly for his Warhols. He is best known for having purchased a 1972 iconic portrait of Mao by Warhol for $17.three million at Christie'southward New York in 2006; and Paul Gauguin's Te poipoi (Le matin) (1892), which he bought for $39.2 1000000 at Sotheby's in November 2007.

Raymond Learsy and Melva Bucksbaum. Photo: patrickmcmullan.com

Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy (United states)
Washington, D.C.–built-in Bucksbaum—who originally wanted to be an artist—and her second husband, erstwhile commodities trader Raymond J. Learsy, are all-time known for collecting contemporary fine art, but their collection includes everything from Peter Paul Rubens to James Rosenquist. The couple recently purchased The Hunting Party by Rosa Loy and Neo Rauch, and they are always adding to their collection of works by Laurie Simmons, a shared favorite. Bucksbaum is the patron backside the Whitney Museum's Bucksbaum Honor, which gives a $100,000 grant and a Whitney solo testify to 1 lucky winner in each Whitney Biennial (meet Zoe Leonard Wins Whitney's Bucksbaum Award With Her Giant Photographic camera Obscura).

Agnes and Edward Lee (United Kingdom)
A principal in the London-based existent-manor portfolio Princeton Investments, which has an estimated worth of $96 million, Edward Lee and his married woman are serenity but avid collectors who like to take risks. They tend to favor edgy contemporary piece of work by international producers such equally Wilhelm Sasnal and Jim Hodges.

Aaron and Barbara Levine. Photo: patrickmcmullan.com

Aaron and Barbara Levine (United States)
"A lot of people retrieve conceptual art is a bunch of baloney," Barbara recently told the Wall Street Journal, confessing that her taste has always been for more minimal art, while her husband, Aaron, has a predilection for Abstract Expressionists and Social Realism. Barbara and Mr. Levine, a personal-injury lawyer, live among four floors of photographs, books, drawings, sculptures, videos of performances and other creations by the likes of Robert Barry, On Kawara, Christopher Williams, and Marcel Duchamp, of whom they own 25 works.

Adam Lindemann. Photo: patrickmcmullan.com

Adam Lindemann (The states)
New York collector and entrepreneur Adam Lindemann, known for the sassy insider column he penned for the New York Observer, has said that his introduction to the art globe came through a former girlfriend, Cornelia Invitee, who was a close friend of Andy Warhol. He founded uptown gallery Venus over Manhattan (see Adam Lindemann's Venus Over Manhattan To Open in Los Angeles) and his wife, Amalia Dayan, co-founder of Upper East Side gallery Luxembourg & Dayan, live in a house designed past David Adjaye.

Eugenio López (Mexico)
Mexican fruit-juice heir López—a trustee and vice chair of MOCA in Los Angeles—founded the largest private museum in Latin America, the Museo Jumex, in 2013, equally a place to business firm selections from his personal collection (run into Museo Júmex Appoints Julieta González Master Curator and Interim Director in Aftermath of Hermann Nitsch Fiasco). He began to collect 20 years ago, initially buying historical pieces of 1960s art, then concentrating on Mexican and international work of his own generation, the '90s. Designed by David Chipperfield, the museum houses some two,000 works of López'southward 2,700-piece collection, including many past American and European masters ranging from Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg to Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst.

Jho Low (Mainland china)
Malaysian financier Jho Low—who bought a penthouse on the 76th floor of the Time Warner Center for $30.55 million—was recently revealed equally the purchaser of Jean-Michel Basquiat's $49 million Dustheads (1982) (come across Malaysian Financier Jho Low Revealed as Purchaser of Jean-Michel Basquiat'due south $49 Million Dustheads). As reported to the New York Times, Low is said by a source close to him to buy "pictures over $twenty million, $30 million, $xl 1000000."

*More Collectors To Watch:

Susan and Leonard Feinstein
Nicoletta Fiorucci
Friedrich Christian ("Mick") Motion picture
Josée and Marc Gensollen
Alan and Jenny Gibbs
Noam Gottesman
Florence and Daniel Guerlain
Paul Harris
Barbara and Axel Haubrok
Alan Howard

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