Bernardo Paz

{{Short description|Brazilian businessman}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}}

{{BLP sources|date=July 2018}}

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| birth_place = Brazil

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| occupation = Businessman, art collector

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Bernardo Paz is a former mining businessman and creator of Inhotim, an outdoor art complex and botanical garden in Brazil that was once home to his own personal rural estate and art collection. Paz commissioned works by contemporary artists for Inhotim and transformed it into a non-profit cultural institution, open to the public.{{cite web |title=Mining Magnate Bernardo Paz's Dedication to Inhotim |website=The Wall Street Journal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926015216/https://www.wsj.com/articles/mining-magnate-bernardo-pazs-dedication-to-inhotim-1377027367 |archive-date=26 September 2021 |url-status=live |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/mining-magnate-bernardo-pazs-dedication-to-inhotim-1377027367}}[https://news.artnet.com/art-world/tarsila-part-ii-1238654 Artnet][http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2015/art-money-mines/ Roads and Kingdoms]{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/world/americas/bernardo-pazs-inhotim-is-vast-garden-of-art.html |title=Bernardo Paz's Inhotim Is Vast Garden of Art |last=Romero |first=Simon |date=10 March 2012 |work=The New York Times |access-date=8 July 2018 |language=en-US}}

In 2018, Paz was sentenced to more than nine years in jail for money laundering.{{cite web |title=The rise and fall of Brazilian art patron Bernardo Paz |website=BBC News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206150458/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-43387755 |archive-date=6 December 2022 |url-status=live |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-43387755}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/arts/design/bernardo-paz-inhotim-prison-brazil.html |title=Creator of Brazil's Outdoor Museum Inhotim Sentenced to Prison |last=Londoño |first=Ernesto |date=17 November 2017 |work=The New York Times |access-date=8 July 2018 |language=en-US}} He was cleared of his charges in 2020.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/collector-bernardo-paz-criminal-charges-cleared-1202679199/|title = Bernardo Paz, Top Brazilian Art Collector and Founder of Inhotim, Cleared of Money Laundering Charges|date = 27 February 2020}}