Jorge M. Pérez y Darlene Boytel-Pérez

Latin American Patron Award 2022

The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation, in which he participates along with his wife Darlene and their children, sponsors numerous cultural programs for the promotion of the arts, such as the creation of Espacio 23, focused on the diffusion of Latin American and Afro-American artists.

In 2020, during the week of ARCO, and as a way to continue fostering dialogue between brotherly peoples, the Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía announced the donation by the collector of 12 works by Latin American artists and an economic amount directed to the acquisition of works by Spanish and Latin American artists. That same year, during the pandemic, the family foundation donated more than $20M in aid to the artist community.

Jorge Perez was also the first Hispanic millionaire to belong to the Giving Pledge, a philanthropic initiative whose members pledge to donate 50% of their fortune to philanthropic purposes after their death.

In his own words: "Miami, which is the capital of the Americas, should have a great collection of Latin American art. And it was important for me, as a Hispanic person, to take philanthropic leadership and give back to society the much that I have received."

www.miamifoundation.org

Felipa Jove

Spanish Patron Award 2022

Felipa Jove is president of the María José Jove Foundation, a foundation named after her deceased sister, which was established in 2003. The María José Jove Foundation works with children and social inclusion through four areas of activity: Art, Health, Education and Training, Leisure and Healthy Time.

Felipa inherited her father's passion for art and has made it one of the cornerstones of the foundation. Manuel Jove began his art collection with several Galician paintings and today the collection treasures more than 600 works by modern masters such as Picasso, Léger, Miro, Dalí, Kandinsky, or contemporary artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Anselm Kiefer or Antony Gormley, among many others.

Over the years, this magnificent collection has travelled throughout all the Galician provinces through masterfully curated exhibitions, always with a special focus on children, young people and people with disabilities, with the aim of promoting the creative spirit and integration.

Of special relevance is the Art and Health program, to improve the physical, mental and social health of people at risk of exclusion.

The foundation carries out a scholarship program to contribute to the international training of local and national artists and organizes the annual Marta Garcia-Fajardo International Painting Awards, whose objectives are to contribute to the promotion of artistic practice and the promotion of the visual arts.

Among his latest exhibitions, it is worth mentioning "Cuerpos Presentes. Maria José Jove Art Collection" in Santiago de Compostela

www.fundacionmariajosejove.org

Füsun Eczacıbaşı

International Patron Award 2022

Füsun Eczacıbaşı is the founding chair of the board of SAHA Association, a Turkey-based not-for-profit organization founded to support visual artists, curators, and writers. SAHA seeks to improve the art professionals’ production and development environments, enhancing their interactions with international art institutions and networks.

In ten years, SAHA has supported more than 400 artists, curators and writers through art initiative projects in more than 170 non-profit institutions in 39 countries.

Founded in 2011 by nine founding members, SAHA believes in the importance of collective effort to create an independent "field" that helps integrate Turkey's art into the universal art ecosystem. Therefore, SAHA offers its support to the visual arts through a participatory approach with its members, project partners and institutions involved.

www.saha.org.tr

Philippe de Montebello

Ibero-American Patron Award 2020

President of the Board of the Hispanic Society of America, a public educational institution that has objects of artistic, historical and literary value with the aim of contributing to the promotion of the study of languages, literature and Spanish and Portuguese history.

These past years, he has managed to raise the museum’s profile with initiatives with as letting 200 artworks to the Prado Museum for the exhibition “Treasures of the Hispanic Society of America” which increased greatly the institution’s visibility and has become one of the most acclaimed exhibitions.

He is Director Emeritus of The Metropolitan Museum of Art where he served as Director of the Museum for 31 years, the longest serving Director in the history of the Metropolitan Museum.

Patron of Honour of the National Prado Museum and member of the Board of the Musée D’Orsay, he has received numerous awards such as the United States National Medal of the Arts or the Order of Isabel la Católica, among others.

www.hispanicsociety.org

Esther Koplowitz

Spanish Patron Award 2020

Esther Koplowitz is a prominent businesswoman who performs an exceptional solidary work supporting the most disadvantaged sectors of society while also undertaking important art patronage initiatives.

In this last sector, her passion for Sorolla has made possible that three main artworks of the painter that were outside of Spain returned. Through her own foundation, she has taken part in relevant actions such as the restoration of the Abbey of Santo Domingo of Silos or the Parish of San Ginés, to name an example.

The relationship between Spain and Ibero-America occupies a prominent place in her private art collection. Her Novohispano art pieces, from the conquest, show this. The Tables of the Mexican Conquest are considered one of the most precious pieces for their exceptional quality and soon they will be loaned for a public exhibition at the Hispanoamerican Museum.

Her American religious art collection is also noteworthy, among which they stand out the representations of the Virgin of Guadalupe: one of them is a beautiful and singular anonymous copper blade and a second one signed and dated by Juan Correa, one of the main Novohispano painters from the last decades of the XVIIth century.

www.fundacionestherkoplowitz.org

Daniel and Estrellita B. Brodsky

Latin American Patron Award 2019

Estrellita and Daniel Brodsky have been for more than four decades supporting art through their activity as patrons and collectors. Estrellita is an art historian, curator, collector and a huge protector of the Latin American art. She has stablished and sponsored curatorial positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Modern and MoMA. She recently founded ANOTHER SPACE, a program developed with the aim of increasing the recognition and international dissemination of the art from Latin-America.

Dan Brodsky is the Chairman of the Board of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has provided the museum with the associate architecture curator job at the MET. He is also a passionate collector of drawings and paintings from Le Corbusier and Calder.

www.anotherspace.org

Fernando Masaveu and Carolina Compostizo

Spanish Patron Award 2019

Fernando Masaveu and Carolina Compostizo, have an evident career path as art patrons since 2006 through the Maria Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation. Its aim is to promote, spread, preserve, recover and restore the Spanish Historic Heritage, music and arts, etc.

In side the Foundation highlights the Maria Cristina Masaveu Peterson Collection, started in 2007 as a result of the fundamental will of support and patronage the circuit of Spanish art. It has on its DNA the collector and patron character from the previous generations.

www.fundacioncristinamasaveu.com

Carlos Slim

Premio Latinoamericano de Mecenazgo 2018

Considerado uno de los filántropos más importantes en la actualidad, Carlos Slim recibió en 2012 el Grado Honorífico de Doctor otorgado por la Universidad George Washington por su trayectoria filantrópica. Entre otros reconocimientos ha recibido la Medalla de la UNESCO por su contribución para que las Tecnologías de la Comunicación sean utilizadas en beneficio de toda la población. Igualmente, la Fundación Carlos Slim fue designada por la Revista Forbes como la Fundación Empresarial más benefactora en México.

La Fundación Carlos Slim, creada en 1986 cuenta con distintos programas enfocados al beneficio de la población más vulnerable en América Latina. El Museo Soumaya abrió sus puertas en el año 1994 con la vocación de coleccionar, investigar, conservar, difundir y exponer testimonios artísticos de México y Europa principalmente. Su objetivo es promover el conocimiento y disfrute de las obras de arte mediante la realización de exposiciones permanentes, temporales e itinerantes, catálogos y publicaciones mensuales, espacios lúdicos, conferencias, ciclos de cine, programas interactivos, etc. La colección cuenta con un nutrido acervo de grandes maestros europeos y novohispanos como El Greco, Tintoretto, Tiziano, Murillo, Zurbarán, Cranach, Rubens, Villalpando, Páez y Cabrera; así como de artistas del impresionismo y las primeras vanguardias, Renoir, Monet, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh y Picasso. Además, el Museo Soumaya posee la colección de obras más importante del escultor Auguste Rodin fuera de Francia.

www.fundacioncarlosslim.org

Carmen Cervera, Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza

Latin American Patron Award 2018

She is the one of the most important art collectors in our days and an important international patron. Vice-president of the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum and Academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Cádiz, she has received the Grand Cross of Isabel la Católica and the Spanish Golden Medal of the Fine Arts. Thanks to her important work as a patron, she secured the agreement with the Spanish government for the acquisition of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, ensuring that it remained united and accessible to the general public.

The Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum is one of the most important private collections of paintings collected in the 20th century and the history of its creation is one of the most fascinating. Although its origin is private, the collection belongs to all Spaniards in our days after the acquisition by the State in 1993, only one year after the opening of the museum in Madrid.

www.museothyssen.org

Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

Latin American Patron Award 2017

Founder of the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection to support the arts, she has been awarded with the Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise and the Leone d’Oro San Marco in Venice among others.

For more than four decades she has strongly supported education and the arts, especially in Latin America, through grants to artists, exhibitions and publications. She is member among others of the MoMA Council and the Trustees of the Reina Sofía Art Museum.

www.coleccioncisneros.org

Carlos Fitz-James Stuart, Duke of Alba

Spanish Patron Award 2017

President of the House of Alba Foundation. A cultural institution established by Ms. Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, aware of the enormous artistic and cultural heritage owned by the family.

Considered one of the most outstanding private art collections of the world, the objectives of the Foundation are to offer the permanent exhibition of the artworks at the Palacio de Liria, preservation and dissemination of the historical and artistic heritage of the House of Alba.

www.fundacioncasadealba.com

Bárbara Garza Lagüera

Latin American Patron Award 2016

FEMSA Collection has been recognized as one of the most important corporate art collections from Latin America. It has more than 1,200 works that illustrate the evolution, diversity and richness of Latin American art from the 20th and 21st centuries, which special emphasis on Mexican art. Through an active program of exhibitions, the company shares its collection fulfilling its goal of promoting and encouraging artistic creation.

It also has a Loan Program, through which it has collaborated with more than 120 cultural institutions around the world. Another initiative is the FEMSA Biennial, whose mission is to recognize, encourage and disseminate artistic creation in Mexico.

www.coleccionfemsa.com

Elena Ochoa Foster

Spanish Patron Award 2016

Ivorypress founded in 1996, is a publishing house focused on the creation and production of artist books. Directs the project C Photo, which promotes photography through publications, exhibitions and academic and institutional support. Ivorypress has created the Department of Contemporary Art at Oxford University.

Along with the whole team, they have curated international exhibitions, C on Cities (10th Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2006), Blood on Paper (Victoria & Albert Museum, London 2008) and Real Venice (Somerset House, London, 2012).

www.ivorypress.com

Solita Cohen

Latin American Patron Award 2015

MISOL seeks to support the Colombian and Latin American art scene and contribute to the formation of different public specialized in the development of a broad and inclusive educational program.

The Foundation aims to provide support to Latin American artists at different stages of their artistic processes, encourage artistic creation with the funding of specific artistic and curatorial projects, contribute with publications specialized in contemporary art, encourage artistic residencies in external programs and provide scholarships in partnership with organizations around the world.

www.misol.org

Mayte Spínola

Spanish Patron Award 2015

Grupo Pro Arte y Cultura seeks to support artists from all social and cultural backgrounds, but always from small towns or municipalities as the citizen is the one who chooses and promotes social initiatives.

Each project is studied, and each artist is free to participate. There are more than 200 artists from different nationalities; painters, sculptors, photographers and intellectuals, selected always by a curatorial team.

www.grupoproarteycultura.com