Frank Cohen

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Frank Cohen in front of Franz Ackermann's Epicentre Meeting I (ArtReview, June 2003)

Frank Cohen (born 15 October, 1943) is the founder of Glyn Webb Home Improvement Stores, which is a large chain of Do It Yourself (DIY) stores in North East, North West, Yorkshire, East Anglia and the Midlands of England. Cohen is one of the most famous art collectors in the world and founder of the FC MoCA Manchester [1] (which is due to open in May 2008 and will be the largest private museum in the United Kingdom outside London). Cohen began collecting Modern British art in the 1970s. In the late 1980s he became a patron and supporter of the Young British Artists (YBAs), American and German art of the 1980s and 1990s, contemporary Japanese art (especially the Superflat movement) and more recently contemporary Chinese art. He is every year listed in ARTnews magazine’s list of ‘The World’s Top 200 Collectors’ [2] and is often referred to as the Charles Saatchi of the North or the Medici of the North.

References

• Express and Star, 16 January 2007 | Frank Cohen's Initial Access - project space | interview (video)
• Forbes | Top Billionaire Art Collectors
• The Art Newspaper, 27 July 2006
• The Daily Telegraph, 20 June 2006
• The Art Newspaper, 15 June 2006
• Bloomberg, 4 July 2006
• The Evening Standard, 2 July 2004
• The Sunday Telegraph, 28 June 2004
• The Economist, 24 June 2004
• The Independent, 22 June 2004
• The Evening Standard, 22 June 2004
• The Independent on Sunday, 9 May 2004
• The Evening Standard, 29 April 2004
• The Independent on Sunday, 13 July 2003
• The Independent on Sunday, 13 July 2003

Further reading

• A Passion For Art: Art Collectors and their Houses by Irene Gludowacz and Susanne van Hagen (Thames & Hudson, 2006) ISBN 0-500-51256-6
• Modern Art Now: from Conception to Consumption by Caroline Wiseman (Strawberry, 2006) ISBN 0-9553194-0-4
• Moving Targets: A User's Guide to British Art Now by Louisa Buck (Tate Publishing, 2000) ISBN 1-85437-316-1

External links

• FC MoCA Manchester
• Frank Cohen's Initial Access (project space)
• Tate Britain