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Jean Pigozzi


Jean "Johnny" Pigozzi (born 1952) is a businessman, art collector, philanthropist, photographer and heir to the Simca automobile brand. He is based out of Paris, Antibes, London, New York, Geneva, and Panama.

Pigozzi is a "French-born Italian". He was born in Paris in 1952 and is the son of Henri Pigozzi, founder of the French car maker Simca. Pigozzi studied at Harvard University before working for the Gaumont Film Company and 20th Century Fox.

In 2007, Pigozzi created a clothing and accessories line featuring bright colors and prints called LimoLand, with the intention of designing clothing for those who “Live to Create”. He is also the creative director of the brand. As of 2010, LimoLine was sold in upscale department stores such as Bloomingdale's, Barneys New York, Bergdorf Goodman, and Nordstrom and had a boutique store in New York City. Pigozzi draws the sketches and outsources the technical aspects of the design and creation of his line.

Pigozzi has assembled the world’s largest collection of contemporary African art named the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC – the Pigozzi Collection). The Contemporary African Art Collection is based in Geneva, and over the past 20 years has been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston; the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco; the National Museum of African Art in Washington D.C.; the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; the Pinacoteca Giovanni and Marella Agnelli in Turin, Italy; the Tate Modern in London; and the Louis Vuitton Fondation in Paris.

In 2006, he also started the JaPigozzi Collection of contemporary Japanese art by young Japanese artists.

In 1996 Pigozzi started buying land in and around Bahia Honda in Panama for conservation, and also created The Liquid Jungle Lab (LJL). LJL was founded to bring high-technology to ecological research and conservation with the following partners: The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, The Royal Botanical Society in Madrid and Yale School of Forestry. Its goal is to create, on the Isla Canales de Tierra, a field station for Marine and Botanical research.


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