Budi Tek

Budiardjo 'Budi' Tek (27 October 1957 – 18 March 2022[1]) was a Chinese-Indonesian entrepreneur, philanthropist and art collector, and the founder of the Yuz Foundation.[2] Following a successful business career, Tek started collecting art works in 2004, amassing a collection of over 1,500 pieces, including a number of difficult to display 'mega art' works, he announced he would turn the collection into a non-profit public institution in 2017 following a 2015 diagnosis[3] of pancreatic cancer.[3] In 2018 he announced that he would partner with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) to form a foundation that would house most of his collection of Chinese contemporary art.[4]

  1. ^ 65歲印尼愛國華僑、企業家、藝術慈善家和收藏家余德耀病逝 Archived 27 March 2022 at the Wayback Machine (in Chinese)
  2. ^ "Budi Tek – Art Agency, Partners". www.artagencypartners.com. Archived from the original on 22 September 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Why Budi Tek wants to make his private Yuz Museum public". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
  4. ^ Binlot, Ann (28 March 2018). "In Historic U.S.-China Partnership, Budi Tek's Shanghai-Based Yuz Museum Will Partner With LACMA". ARTnews. Retrieved 25 November 2018.