Moishe Mana

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Moishe Mana (born 1956) is a billionaire businessman, and real estate developer. Originally from Israel, Mana emigrated to the US in 1983, where he founded his first business, Moishe's Moving Systems. He started further businesses including GRM Document Management, the country's third largest document storage business, Milk Studios, a media and entertainment conglomerate, and Mana Contemporary, an art gallery. Mana is currently developing real estate in Miami and Jersey City. By the late 2000s Mana had become a contemporary art collector. He questioned how art was collected, stored, and managed in cloistered facilities. In 2009, Mana and his long-time business partner Eugene Lemay began assembling over two million square feet of empty warehouses in Jersey City, New Jersey for the purposes of disrupting the art storage market. He then converted this assemblage into an arts community called MANA Contemporary.[5] With services, spaces, and programming for artists, collectors, curators, performers, students and community, MANA Contemporary includes artist studios, living space, creative, photography, fashion, exhibition spaces, and storage. Mana has vocally opposed Donald Trump.[78] During Trump’s campaign for the office of the presidency, Mana offered to donate first one million, then two million dollars to the charity of Trump’s choice in exchange for the presidential candidate making his tax returns public. The September before Trump’s election, a naked statue of him appeared atop one of Mana’s Wynwood offices. The statue was subsequently stolen and returned, albeit headless. Mana also commissioned a large mural of then-candidate Trump which luridly depicted the developer-turned-politician as The Joker from The Dark Knight. The mural was modified after the election by the original artists to remove Trump's likeness. Mana donated $10 million to Florida International University’s CARTA (College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts) Program. The gift is $2.5 million in cash and an in-kind donation of 15,000 square feet of studio and classroom space at MANA Wynwood. * Info extraída de su perfil en Wikipedia