About

For more than 35 years, Pamela and Richard Kramlich have cultivated one of the most important private collections of media art in the world. Among the first collectors to focus their attention and patronage on “new media” art in the late 1980s, the Kramlichs have provided pioneering support for the preservation, conservation, and presentation of time-based works and helped advanced the inclusion of this work within the broader narrative of modern and contemporary art history.

The Kramlich Collection today encompasses over 200 works of film, video, slide, and installation, as well as over 250 significant works of photography, sculpture, painting, and drawing by more than 230 artists from around the world. The Collection features seminal holdings of risk-taking and renowned artists who are advancing the field through their work, with Marina Abramović, Doug Aitken, Matthew Barney, Joseph Beuys, Dara Birnbaum, Nan Goldin, Pierre Huyghe, Isaac Julien, Joan Jonas, William Kentridge, Anthony McCall, Steve McQueen, Richard Mosse, Shirin Neshat, Nam June Paik, and Bill Viola, among them. The Collection’s continued growth is guided by the Kramlichs’ dedication to supporting those artists whose work embrace a range of artistic techniques and reflect upon bracing social and cultural themes.

See complete list of artists.