Independent Collectors
Stefan Simchowitz Collection
L.A.’s most controversial art collector opens up his private collection of contemporary painting.
![MICHAEL PYBUS, No Title (Panel 5), 2017](/site/assets/files/24287/2023-06-10_21-49-05_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg?v=249300514 640w, /site/assets/files/24287/2023-06-10_21-49-05_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg?v=1826330482 1024w)
One of the most talked about figures in today’s contemporary art world, Los Angeles-based art collector and dealer Stefan Simchowitz is someone you either love to hate, or hate to love.
Simchowitz, who was once hailed “The Art World’s Patron Satan” in a New York Times headline, has gained a reputation within the art world as one of the most influential, and disputed, contemporary art collectors of modern times. An avid supporter and collector of young and undiscovered artists, the collector has also been widely criticized for his unconventional collecting practices.
Whatever your opinion on his acquisition of art may be, it is his outspoken opinions about the inner-workings of the art market that have thrust these once private dealings and hidden activities into the limelight, helping to create a more transparent and honest dialogue within a world that is notoriously secretive. In 2016 Simchowitz famously shamed dealers and their “fictional powers of persuasion“, demanding for them to let go of their archaic business models and for the art market to become more democratic.
In his first online exhibition on IC, Stefan Simchowitz shares a selection of artworks from the continuously growing Stefan Simchowitz Collection.
![LAZAROS, Hex to manifest lightness (for Calvino), 2017](/site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-47_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-47_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg 1024w)
![LAZAROS, Hex to manifest quickness (for Calvino), 2017](/site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-47_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-1.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-47_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-1.jpg 1024w)
![ZACHARY ARMSTRONG, Peppers, 2016](/site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-48_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-48_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg 1024w)
![ZACHARY ARMSTRONG, Hills and Dales White, 2016](/site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-48_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-1.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-48_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-1.jpg 1024w)
![PETRA CORTRIGHT, Speed with Keanu elena de lisser map home, 2017](/site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-48_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-3.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-48_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-3.jpg 1024w)
![PETRA CORTRIGHT, National Institute_la taronga zoo card spreads, 2017](/site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-48_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-2.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-48_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-2.jpg 1024w)
![KATE GROOBEY, Unfoxy lady IV, 2016](/site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-48_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-4.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-48_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-4.jpg 1024w)
![KATE GROOBEY, Kick-ass, 2016](/site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-49_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-49_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg 1024w)
![DARREN GOINS, 14r(xy_bw_oo_3), 2017](/site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-49_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-1.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-49_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-1.jpg 1024w)
![DARREN GOINS, 13r(xy_bw_oo_2), 2017](/site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-49_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-2.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-49_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-2.jpg 1024w)
![MICHAEL SWANEY, Hombre reclinado con almohada, jarron, y perro (Reclining man with pillow, vase, and dog), 2014](/site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-49_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-4.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-49_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-4.jpg 1024w)
![BRIAN HARTE, Subbuteo, 2016](/site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-49_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-3.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-49_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-3.jpg 1024w)
![MARC HOROWITZ, But when this end will come, we have no way of knowing. So we just hasten along., 2017](/site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-50_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-50_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg 1024w)
![JOEY WOLF, Beers on the river, 2017](/site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-50_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-1.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-50_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-1.jpg 1024w)
![MICHAEL PYBUS, No Title (Panel 5), 2017](/site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-50_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-2.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-50_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-2.jpg 1024w)
![SERGE ATTUKWEI CLOTTEY, Independence arch, 2016](/site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-50_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-3.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-50_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-3.jpg 1024w)
![BRIAN HARTE, Self, 2016](/site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-51_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-1.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-51_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-1.jpg 1024w)
![KOUR POUR, Western Appropriation Landscape Painting, 2017](/site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-50_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-4.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-50_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-4.jpg 1024w)
![CAMERON PLATTER, Mask (White), 2015](/site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-51_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-2.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-51_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-2.jpg 1024w)
![CAMERON PLATTER, Safari, 2015](/site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-51_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-51_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg 1024w)
![CAMERON PATTER, Dry Gardens (Nuckin Futs III), 2017](/site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-51_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-3.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-51_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-3.jpg 1024w)
![KOUR POUR, Emerald Orientalism, 2016](/site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-51_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-4.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/24291/2023-06-10_21-50-51_stefan-simchowitz-collection_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-4.jpg 1024w)