Four years ago the entrepreneur Jason Swartz became a collector with the painting "Damsel" by Tschabalala Self, which he later donated to MOCA los Angeles, of which he is now a member of the committee. With this  donation he seeks to influence and inspire young artists and creative voices. He has also donated artworks to the Hammer Museum, Pérez Art Museum Miami, and other collections.

Swartz is a born collector, obsessed as a child with fossils and curious stones; as a teenager he moved on to comics, posters and sports memorabilia; finally he has reached what he considers the pinnacle of his evolution as a collector of stories: art. He knew his relationship with it began as soon as he saw a work by Donald Judd Stack and was enraptured by the way it seemed to slide, the magnitude, the simplicity. Now he has a hundred works, although as he does not like to accumulate his work, thirty hang on the walls of his house and the rest are distributed among the homes of his family in the United States and Europe.

Swartz finally has reached what he considers the pinnacle of his evolution as a collector of stories: art.

For him, the destiny of a collection is not to be trapped in a domicile but to share and create conversations with other collectors, artists and curators, and these works lead to reflection on issues such as LGTBQ rights, mental health and the environment. All the living artists that form part of his collection have exchanged thoughts with Swartz, because in the end he feels that this is the purpose of art, to get to know its authors, to create that human connection and to escape from a mere accumulation of objects.

For him, the destiny of a collection is not to be trapped in a domicile but to share and create conversations with other collectors, artists and curators...