The Most Powerful Top 100 Art Collectors of 2018

In this complete compilation of the Top 100 Collectors 2018 list, you will find the names of some of the most active, engaged collectors in the world today. Among this year’s cast are influential big names ranging from Asia. Read on.

Roman Abramovich

London; Moscow; New York  Steel, mining, investments, technology, and professional soccer (Chelsea Football Club) Impressionism; modern, postwar, and contemporary art

Haryanto Adikoesoemo

Jakarta, Indonesia  Energy, logistics, and real estate Indonesian, Asian, and Western modern and contemporary art

Mohammed Afkhami

Dubai; Gstaad, Switzerland; London; New York  Private equity, real estate, and commodities Modern and contemporary Iranian and international art

Paul Allen

Seattle  Technology, real estate, and investments . Impressionism; Old Masters; modern and contemporary art

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen and Marc Andreessen

Palo Alto, California  Philanthropy; entrepreneur Postwar and contemporary art

Alfonso de Angoitia Noriega

Mexico City  Media (Grupo Televisa)  Contemporary art

Maria Asuncion Aramburuzabala

Mexico City  Beverages and investments Modern and contemporary art

Helene & Bernard Arnault

Paris  Luxury goods (LVMH) Contemporary art

Laura & John Arnold

Houston  Hedge fund Modern art; African art; Old Masters

Laurent Asscher

Monaco  Investments Modern and contemporary art

Hans Rasmus Astrup

Oslo  Shipping- and finance-related activities Contemporary art

Candace Carmel Barach

New York  Real estate Contemporary art

Maria Arena & William Bell Jr

Los Angeles  Television production Modern and contemporary art

Ernesto Bertarelli

Gstaad, Switzerland  Biotech and investments Modern and contemporary art

Debra & Leon Black

New York  Investment banking Old Masters; Impressionism; modern painting; Chinese sculpture; contemporary art; works on paper

Len Blavatnik

London; New York  Investments (media, industrials, and real estate) Modern and contemporary art

Neil G. Bluhm

Chicago  Real estate Postwar and contemporary art

Barbara Bluhm-Kaul and Don Kaul

Chicago  Real estate; law (retired) Postwar and contemporary art

Suzanne Deal Booth

Austin, Texas; Los Angeles and Rutherford, California  Investments; philanthropy Contemporary art; Renaissance art; Old Master drawings

Karen and Christian Boros

Berlin  Advertising, communications, and publishing Contemporary art

Botin Family

Santander, Spain  Banking Contemporary art

Irama and Norman Braman

Miami Beach  Automobile dealerships Modern and contemporary art

Udo Brandhorst

Munich  Insurance Postwar and contemporary art

Peter M. Brant

Greenwich, Connecticut  Newsprint manufacturing Contemporary art; design; furniture

Edythe L and Eli Broad

Los Angeles  Philanthropy (The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, The Broad Art Foundation, and The Broad Foundation) Contemporary art

Estrellita and Daniel Brodsky

New York  Real estate Modern and contemporary Latin American and international art; drawings and paintings by architects, especially Le Corbusier and Calder

James Keith (JK) Brown and Eric Diefenbach

New York; Ridgefield, Connecticut  Investments and law Contemporary art

Joop van Caldenbrogh

Wassenaar, the Netherlands  Chemical industry (Caldic) Modern and contemporary art, including sculpture, photography, artists’ books, video, and installations

Edouard Carmignac

Paris  Asset management Contemporary art

Pierre Chen

Taipei  High-tech industry Modern and contemporary art

Adrian Cheng

Hong Kong  Retail and real estate (K11 and New World Development) Contemporary Chinese and global art

Elizabeth and Phillip Chun

Incheon, South Korea  Integrated resorts (Paradise City) Contemporary art

Halia Cingillioglu and Kemal Has Cingillioglu

London; Monaco  Banking Impressionism; modern, postwar, and contemporary art

Ella Fontanals-Cisneros

Gstaad, Switzerland; Madrid; Miami  Investments, real estate, telecommunications, and technology Global contemporary art, with an emphasis on conceptual art, photography, and video; art from Latin America, especially geometric abstraction, Cuban art, and contemporary and emerging artists

Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and Gustavo A. Cisneros

Caracas, Venezuela; Madrid; New York  Media, entertainment, digital advertising, and luxury real estate Modern and contemporary Latin American art; 19th-century traveler artists to Latin America; colonial art and objects from Latin America; Amazonian ethnographic objects

Alexandra and Steven A. Cohen

Greenwich, Connecticut  Investments Impressionism; modern and contemporary art

Isabel & Agustin Coppel

Culiacán, Mexico  Retail  International art

Eduardo F. Costantini

Buenos Aires  Asset management and real estate Modern and contemporary Latin American art

Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz

Key Biscayne, Florida  Coca-Cola bottling in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Contemporary art

Dimitris Daskalopoulos

Athens  Entrepreneur; financial services and investment company  Contemporary art

Beth Rudin Dewoody

Los Angeles; New York; West Palm Beach, Florida  Real estate; Philanthropy Modern and contemporary art

Lonti Ebers

London; New York; Toronto  Real estate Contemporary art

George Economou

Athens  Investments and shipping (DryShips) Modern, postwar, and contemporary art

Stefan T. and Gael Neeson Edlis

Aspen, Colorado; Chicago  Plastics manufacturing (retired) Postwar and contemporary art

Carl Gustaf Ehrnrooth

Helsinki  Construction and investments Contemporary Scandinavian, European, and American art

Eisenberg Family

New Jersey; New York  Retail (Bed Bath & Beyond) Contemporary art

Lawrence J. Ellison

Woodside, California  Software Late 19th- and early 20th-century European art; ancient to early 20th-century Japanese art

Caryl and Israel Englander

New York  Hedge fund Modern, postwar, and contemporary art; contemporary photography

Nicola Erni

Steinhausen, Switzerland  Investments Photography; contemporary art

Susan and Leonard Feinstein

New York and Long Island, New York; Palm Beach Gardens, Florida  Retail (Bed Bath & Beyond) Modern and contemporary art

Frank J. Fertitta III and Lorenzo Fertitta

Las Vegas  Casinos (Station Casinos) and professional fighting (Ultimate Fighting Championship) Modern and contemporary art

Fisher Family

San Francisco  Retail (Gap Inc.) Contemporary art and photography

Aaron I. Fleischman

Miami Beach; New York  Investments Modern and contemporary art

Michael C. Forman and Jennifer Rice

Philadelphia  Investment fund management (FS Investments) Modern and contemporary art

Amanda and Glenn R Fuhrman

New York  Investments (MSD Capital) Contemporary art

Gabriela and Ramiro Garza

Aspen, Colorado; Mexico City  Energy (Grupo R)  Contemporary art

Christy and Bill Gautreaux

Kansas City, Missouri  Privately held non-bank holdings company . Contemporary art

David Geffen

Los Angeles  Film and record executive; investments Modern and contemporary art, especially Abstract Expressionism

Yassmin and Sasan Ghandehari

London  Investments (real estate and industrials) Impressionism; postwar and contemporary art

Hedi Goess-Horten

Carinthia, Austria  Inheritance (department stores) Modern and contemporary art

Danny Goldberg

Sydney  Real estate and investments European and American contemporary art

Bernardo Gomez Martinez

Mexico City  Media (Grupo Televisa) Contemporary art

Noam Gottesman

New York  Hedge fund Postwar and contemporary art

Laurence Graff

Gstaad, Switzerland  Jewelry Modern and contemporary art

Kenneth C. Griffin

Chicago  Hedge fund Post-Impressionism

Florence and Daniel Guerlain

Paris  Inheritance (perfume); philanthropy (Contemporary Drawing Prize) Contemporary art, especially drawing

Agnes Gund

Kent, Connecticut; New York; Peninsula, Ohio  Inheritance Modern and contemporary art

Francesca von Habsburg

Vienna  Philanthropy (founder, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection and TBA21-Academy) Contemporary art

Christine & Andrew Hall

Palm Beach, Florida  Investments  Contemporary art

Prince Hans-Adam II von und zu Liechtenstein

Vaduz, Liechtenstein  Inheritance Old Masters

Janine and J. Tomilson Hill

New York  Investment banking Renaissance and Baroque bronzes; Old Masters; postwar and contemporary art

Marguerite Hoffman

Dallas  Private investments Postwar American and European art; illuminated medieval manuscripts; Chinese monochromes

Maja Hoffmann

New York; Zurich  Inheritance (pharmaceuticals) Contemporary art

Frank Huang

Taipei  Computer hardware Chinese porcelain; Impressionist and modern painting

Dakis Joannou

Athens  Construction Contemporary art

Edward ‘Ned’ Johnson III

Boston  Finance (Fidelity Investments) 19th- and 20th-century American painting, furniture, and decorative arts; Asian art and ceramics

Pamela J. Joyner & Alfred J. Giuffrida

San Francisco and Sonoma, California  Investments African-American abstract art; art of the African diaspora; contemporary South African art

Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor

London; Moscow  Fertilizer (Acron Group); President of the European Jewish Congress Russian and Jewish art of the 20th century; contemporary Russian art

Nasser David Khalili

London  Real estate and investments Aramaic documents (353–324 B.C.); enamels of the world (1700–1900); Hajj and the arts of pilgrimage (700–2000); Islamic art; Japanese art of the Meiji period; Japanese kimonos (1700–2000); Spanish damascened metalworks (1850–1900); Swedish textiles (1700–1900)

Alison and Peter W. Klein

Eberdingen-Nussdorf, Germany  Real estate (Peter Klein Real Estate) Contemporary painting and photography; Aboriginal art

Jill & Peter Kraus

New York and Dutchess County, New York  Investment management  Contemporary art

Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis

New York  Finance and investments Modern and contemporary art; 18th-century French decorative arts and French Art Deco furniture

Ananda Krishnan

France; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia  Finance and investments  Modern art

Grazyna Kulezyk

Engadin, Switzerland  Investments; entrepreneur; philanthropy (Muzeum Susch) Postwar and contemporary art, with an emphasis on women artists and conceptual and performance art

Pierre Lagrange

London  Hedge fund Postwar and contemporary art

Guy Laliberte

Ibiza, Spain; Montreal  Creative ventures (Groupe Lune Rouge)  Contemporary art

Barbara and Jon Landau

New York and Westchester County, New York  Entertainment Renaissance and Baroque painting and sculpture; 19th-century French and English painting

Steven Latner and Michael Latner

Toronto  Real estate Modern and contemporary art

Joseph Lau

Hong Kong  Real estate Modern and contemporary art, especially Warhol

Thomas Lau

Hong Kong  Real estate Modern and contemporary art

Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder

New York and Wainscott, New York; Palm Beach, Florida; Paris; Vienna; Washington, D.C.  Cosmetics (Estée Lauder Companies) Antiquities; medieval art; arms and armor; Old Masters; 20th-century decorative arts; Austrian and German Expressionism; modern masters; postwar German and Italian art; contemporary art

Leonard A. Lauder