Timeline of art

This page indexes the individual year in art pages; see also art periods. This list is exclusively for the visual arts; for music, see Timeline of musical events.

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2020s

2026 in art - Death of Molly Parkin, Daniel Pelletti, Hiroshi Nakamura, Beatriz González, Scott Adams, Alfred Grimm, Philip Leider, Valentino, Linda Kohen, Marian Goodman, Praski Vitti, Eric Cameron, Lorenza Trucchi, Dóra Maurer, Henrike Naumann, Roger von Gunten, Isaiah Zagar, Peter Stämpfli, Iris Cantor, Liliana Angulo Cortés, Ulysses Jenkins, Stephen Koch, Giancarlo Politi, Ioanna Papantoniou, Eugènia Balcells, Pockets Warhol, Pedro Friedeberg, Thaddeus Mosley, Umberto Allemandi, Jean-François Boclé, Calvin Tomkins, Pat Steir, Glen Baxter, Melvin Edwards, Mike Chaplin, Pearl Fryar, Thomas Zipp, Melchor Peredo, Gabor Szilasi, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, James Hayward, Randall Bourscheidt, Desmond Morris, Vuokko Nurmesniemi, George Herms. Georg Baselitz, Ben Morea, José María Cruz Novillo, Manuela Hoelterhoff, Bruno Bischofberger, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Valie Export, Harald Metzkes, Silvio Benedetto, Arleen Schloss, Tess Jaray, Alan Saret, Jay Milder, Julio Le Parc, Charles Hinman, Matthew Spender, John Loring, Duane Michals, David Hockney, Portchie, Danny Simmons, Wulf Herzogenrath, Yaacov Agam, Konstantin Khudyakov, Mustafa Monwar, Kurt Ard, Luisa Cunha, Edward Lucie-Smith, Pat Oliphant, Juan Carlos Distéfano, Milan Knížák, Betye Saar, Simone Forti, Jonathan Leo Fairbanks, Tomás Parra, Christian Bernard, Mary Heilmann, Yayoi Kusama, Jay Maisel, Franco Fontana, Helch, David Thauberger, Geles Cabrera, Brian Fallon, Lucien Smith, Aracy Amaral, Peter Max, Carlos Alonso

2025 in art - Death of La Chunga, Ed Askew, Peter Brandes, Elisabeth Haarr, Philippa Blair, Leo Segedin, Alastair MacKinven, Oliviero Toscani, David Lynch, George A. Tice, Jules Feiffer, Aaron De Groft, Jo Baer, Håkon Bleken, Renina Katz, Rutherford Chang, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Graham Nickson, Lim Tze Peng, Waldo Díaz-Balart, Satoru Abe, Walter Robinson, Mustafa Arruf, Kay Smith, Mel Bochner, Frankétienne, Ming Fay, Carol Sutton, Jack Vettriano, Fred Eversley, Peter Sedgley, Anita Huffington, Joe Goode, Asaf Lifshitz, Abdul Karim Al-Orrayed, Marcia Marcus, Max Kozloff, Luis Felipe Noé, Chuck Connelly, Elaine Wynn, Art Green, Guy Ullens, Ita Aber, Zurab Tsereteli, Peter Sarkisian, Suki Seokyeong Kang, Dara Birnbaum, Julia Alexander, Ana Pellicer, André Rouillé, Koyo Kouoh, William Luers, Yasunao Tone, Eva, Tor Kvarv, Sebastião Salgado, Claude Roussel, Alenka Kham Pičman, Bedřich Dlouhý, Hugo Zapata, Daniel Lelong, Graham Gund, Gunther Uecker, Henk van Os, Joel Shapiro, Leonard Lauder, Thornton Willis, Marcia Resnick, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Pat Williams, Peter Hutchinson, Brian Clarke, Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan, Hamiduzzaman Khan, David Adickes, Raymond Saunders, Lena Cronqvist, Robert Wilson, Amnon Barzel, Walter Swennen, Amalia Del Ponte, Humberto Calzada, Eduard Carbonell i Esteller, Esther Grether, Rosalyn Drexler, Robert Grosvenor, Norman Toynton, Agnes Gund, Bryan Kneale, Juraj Bartusz, Jørgen Leth, Takako Saito, Milton Esterow, Ken Jacobs, Frank Wimberley, Pepe Soho, Drew Struzan, Claes Hake, Ed Kerns, Zbyšek Sion, Jackie Ferrara, Mimmo Jodice, Koko Komégné, Allison Knowles, Elspeth King, Giorgio Forattini, Sasha Okun, Dorothy Vogel, Timothy App, Ronald Davis, Llyn Foulkes, Frank Gehry, Wolfgang Petrick, Martin Parr, Arthur L. Carter, Ceal Floyer, Janet Fish, Paul de Nooijer, Rosa von Praunheim, Oscar Allain, Ram V. Sutar, Robert Mnuchin, Sigmund Abeles, Anne Mdden Gathie Falk, Amos Poe, Margarete Palz, Walter Steding

2024 in art - Death of Hartmut Ritzerfeld, Alexis Smith, Kishin Shinoyama, Brent Sikkema, Robert Whitman, Carl Andre, Ricardo Pascale, Brian Griffin, Peter Golfinopoulos, Antonio Paolucci, Helga Paris, Melvin Way, Andrew Crispo, A. Ramachandran, Günter Brus, Aleš Lamr, Marc Pachter, Steve Paxton. Félix Aráuz, Iris Apfel, Pigcasso, Lucas Samaras, Akira Toriyama, Imogen Stuart, Robert Moskowitz. Richard Serra, Katsura Funakoshi, Marian Zazeela, Quisqueya Henríquez, Gaetano Pesce, Italo Rota, Ziraldo, Patti Astor, Trina Robbins, Faith Ringgold, Jean-Marie Haessle, Au Ho-nien, Zack Norman, Frank Stella, David Shapiro, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Katherine Porter, Joe Zucker, Roberta Marrero, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, John Boardman, Valery Chtak, Sanford L. Smith, Bertien van Manen, Jan van Munster, Ben Vautier, Lyons Brown Jr., Guy Warren, Barbara Gladstone, Sir John Boardman, Martin Mull, Audrey Flack, Jacqueline de Jong, Manuel Cargaleiro, June Leaf, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Thomas Hoepker, Bill Viola, André Juillard, Kasper König, Simon Verity, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Jaime Botín, Bill Beckley, David Anfam, Leonard Riggio, Ēvī Upeniece, Hans Danuser, Jacqueline Winsor, Derek Boshier, Rebecca Horn, Peter Klashorst, Mary McFadden, Fred Nall Hollis, James Magee, Norman Ackroyd, Eikoh Hosoe, Valentinas Antanavičius, Ivan Vukadinov, Richard Mayhew, Lillian Schwartz, Andrew Stahl, Patricia Johanson, Isabelle de Borchgrave, Robert C. Morgan, Gary Indiana, Paul Morrissey, Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin, Daniel Spoerri Frank Auerbach, David R. Prentice, Walter Dahn, Tom Forrestall, Eunice Parsons, Vojo Stanić, Cynthia Zukas, Breyten Breytenbach, Rafig Nasirov, Raghnall Ó Floinn, Lorraine O'Grady, Jodhaiya Bai Baiga, Juan Cárdenas, Rezki Zerarti, Yoshio Taniguchi, Roberto Esteban Chavez, Zilia Sánchez Domínguez, Kurt Laurenz Metzler, Alfredo Prior, Marie-Claude Beaud, Jocelyn Wildenstein, Pippa Garner

2023 in art - Death of Marilyn Stafford, Zhou Lingzhao, Lyuben Zidarov, Karim Bennani, Michael Snow, George S. Zimbel, Hans Belting, Nicola Zamboni, Alfred Leslie, Jesse Treviño, Ángela Gurría, Ans Westra, Mary Bauermeister, Camille Souter, Rafael Viñoly, Lou Stovall, Piero Gilardi, Ian Falconer, Phyllida Barlow, Francisco Rodón, Shamim Sikder, James Harithas, Vivan Sundaram, Myriam Ullens, Neal Boenzi, Ted Bonin, Al Jaffee, John Olsen, Eberhard Kornfeld, Ed Koren, Harold Riley, Ju Ming, Yvonne Jacquette, Frank Kozik, Kenneth Anger, Roy Lerner, Dorothy Knowles, Jorrit Tornquist, Ilya Kabakov, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Françoise Gilot, Graziano Origa, Cora Cohen, Khosrow Hassanzadeh, Jan Sierhuis, Joop Sanders, Ales Pushkin, Fazil Najafov, Rubén Martínez Bulnes, Tony Bennett, Jesse Lott, Oswaldo Viteri, Giorgio Di Genova, Didier Lourenço, David Le Batard, Konrad Klapheck, Jamie Reid, Brice Marden, Claude Picasso, Mario Costa, Lisa Lyon, Fernando Botero, Erwin Olaf, Park Seo-bo, Gastón Ugalde, Juanita McNeely, Eduardo Arranz-Bravo, Ida Applebroog, Robert Irwin, Gord Smith, Joe Tilson, Radcliffe Bailey, Rob Krier, Larry Fink, William Anastasi, Wolfgang Hollegha, Paul Dibble, Vera Molnár, Graziella Magherini, Richard Hunt, Giovanni Anselmo, Imroz, William Pope.L, Martha Diamond

2022 in art - Death of Craig Ruddy, Ricardo Bofill, Tova Berlinski, Alekos Fassianos, Hossein Valamanesh, Andrei Mudrea, James Bidgood, Dan Lacey, John Wesley, Carmen Herrera, John Scott, Dan Graham, Marino Golinelli, DeWain Valentine, Srihadi Soedarsono, Antonio Seguí, Nick Zedd, Conrad Janis, Albert Kresch, Budi Tek, Sven Lukin, Mira Calix, Ted Mooney, Patrick Demarchelier, Eleanor Munro, Donald Baechler, Jerry Uelsmann, Hermann Nitsch, Cynthia Plaster Caster, Lewis Stein, Marcus Leatherdale, Enoch Kelly Haney, Ron Galella, Suzi Gablik, Enrique Metinides, Knox Martin, Bob Neuwirth, Miss.Tic, David Datuna, Samella Lewis, Claude Rutault Christopher Pratt, Jacques Villeglé, Paula Rego, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Heidi Horten, Duncan Hannah, Juan Pablo Echeverri, Harvey Dinnerstein, Arnold Skolnick, Sam Gilliam, Margaret Keane, David Blackwood, Matt King, Lily Safra, Maya Attoun, Claes Oldenburg, Emilie Benes Brzezinski, Jennifer Bartlett, Mary Obering, Velichko Minekov, Issey Miyake, Natalia LL, Marta Palau Bosch, Dmitri Vrubel, Oliver Frey, Lily Renée, Charlie Finch, Jens Birkemose, Virginia Dwan, James Polshek, Jean-Luc Godard. Roxanne Lowit, Bill Hutson, Brigida Baltar, Billy Al Bengston, Grace Glueck, Harold Garde, Angus Trumble, Jüri Arrak, Jagoda Buić, Peter Schjeldahl, Rodney Graham, Laila Shawa, Pierre Soulages, Clark Murray, Nicholas Harding, Brian O'Doherty, Lee Bontecou, Hervé Télémaque, Tom Phillips, Ashley Bickerton, Larry Qualls, Ronald Sherr, Judith Lauand, Philip Pearlstein, Maya Widmaier-Picasso, Franz Gertsch, Dorothy Iannone, Arata Isozaki, Tony Vaccaro, Sven Lukin

2021 in art - Death of Jan de Bie, Kim Tschang-yeul, Arik Brauer, Barry Le Va, Forrest Moses, Cindy Nemser, Bill Hammond, Luis Feito, James Bishop, Arturo Di Modica, Alan Bowness, Toko Shinoda, Barbara Ess, Duggie Fields, Elsa Peretti, Jean-Michel Sanejouand, Gianluigi Colalucci, Jean Dupuy, Mary Beth Edelson, Hans Rasmus Astrup, William T. Wiley, Eli Broad, Julião Sarmento, Susanna Heller, Richard Nonas, Alain Kirili, Ingvar Cronhammar, Roser Bru, Dani Karavan, Judith Godwin, Jane Kaufman, Douglas S. Cramer, Tomás Llorens, Allen Midgette, Mogens Møller, Gérard Fromanger, Arnold Odermatt, Diego Cortez, Arturo Schwarz, Joseph Raffael, Christian Boltanski, Louise Fishman, Phillip King, Nancy Frankel, Ben Wagin, Yolanda López, Stanislav Hanzík, K. Schippers, Chuck Close, Yusuf Grillo, Billy Apple, Sylvano Bussotti, Achille Pace, Lars Vilks, Julie L. Green, Margo Leavin, Paul Blanca, Manuel Neri, Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, Lía Bermúdez, Patrick Reyntiens, Iran Darroudi, Raoul Middleman, Bettina Grossman, Dave Hickey, Etel Adnan, Jimmie Durham, Mick Rock, Carlo Maria Mariani, Rita Letendre, Robert Bly, Virgil Abloh, Guillermo Roux, Lawrence Weiner, Eve Babitz, Richard Rogers, Wayne Thiebaud, Sabine Weiss

2020 in art - Death of John Baldessari, Akbar Padamsee, André Lufwa, Oswald Oberhuber, James Mollison, Hester Diamond, Jason Polan. Beverly Pepper, Anne Windfohr Marion, Jack Youngerman, Peter Dreher, Ulay, John Seward Johnson II, Wolf Kahn, Paul Kasmin, Maurice Berger, Idelle Weber, Dr. Evermor, Anne Hendricks Bass, David Driskell, Alexander Thynn, Helene Aylon, Daniel Greene, Mort Drucker, Gillian Wise, William H. Bailey, Glenna Goodacre, Markus Raetz, Peter Beard, Tina Girouard, Zarina, Germano Celant, Michael McClure, Iepe Rubingh, Cliff Eyland, Susan Rothenberg, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Emma Amos, Peter Alexander, Gracia Barrios, Christo, Manuel Felguérez, Luther Price, Anna Blume, Milton Glaser, Benedetto Robazza, Frank Popper, George Simon, Brigid Berlin, Keith Sonnier, Lotty Rosenfeld, Miodrag Živković, Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara, Frank Wright, William Arnett, Luchita Hurtado, Pierre-Yves Trémois, Fern Cunningham, Ron Gorchov, Mrinal Haque, Pedro de Oraá, Douglas MacDiarmid, Siah Armajani, Jürgen Schadeberg, Philippe Daverio, Pierre Nahon, Franco Maria Ricci, Donald Kendall, Robert Bechtle, Kenzo Takada, Geoffrey Dyer, Jean Cardot, Chris Killip, David Geiser, Lea Vergine, Diane Di Prima, Mohammed Melehi, Sindika Dokolo, Piero Simondo, Aldo Tambellini, Sheldon Solow, Daniel Cordier, Helen LaFrance, Suh Se-ok, Jackie Saccoccio, James Havard, Barbara Rose, David Medalla

2010s

2019 in art - Death of Francine du Plessix Gray, John Mason, Jonas Mekas, Susan Hiller, Robert Ryman, Alessandro Mendini, Marella Angelli, Kevin Roche, Carolee Schneemann, Martín Chirino, Sir John Richardson, Okwui Enwezor, Luca Alinari, Barbara Hammer, Hedi Turki, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Claude Lalanne, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Jayne Wrightsman, Mavis Pusey, Ben Heller Thomas Nozkowski, Lutz Bacher, Nobuo Sekine, Jamil Naqsh, I.M. Pei, Lawrence Carroll, Everett Kinstler, Tony DeLap, Joe Overstreet, Adela Neffa, Joyce Pensato, Maryon Kantaroff, Martin Roth, Suzan Pitt, Charles Ginnever, Robert Therrien, Gloria Vanderbilt, Peter Selz, Sascha Pohflepp, David Koloane, Leon Kossoff, Douglas Crimp, Steve Cannon, Frieder Burda, Marisa Merz, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Wang Guodong, Peter Lindbergh, Francisco Toledo, Robert Frank, Daniel Johnston, Huguette Caland, Matthew Wong, John Giorno, Ettore Spalletti, E. A. Carmean, Charles Jencks, Adolfo Mexiac, Stefan Edlis, Edward Clark, Huang Yong Ping, Gilberto Aceves Navarro, Rina Lazo, Manoucher Yektai, Johann Eyfells, May Stevens, Ken Heymann, Emily Mason, PHASE 2, Panamarenko, Alasdair Gray, Syd Mead, Oliviero Leonardi

2018 in art - Death of Mauro Staccioli, Betty Woodman, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Carlo Pedretti, Kynaston McShine, William Scharf, Ed Moses, Jack Whitten, Robert Pincus-Witten, Sonia Gechtoff, Frank Gaylord, Gillian Ayres, Marcia Hafif, Per Kirkeby, Tom Wolfe, Robert Indiana, Alan Bean, Gregg Juarez, Malcolm Morley, Irving Sandler, Michaele Vollbracht, David Goldblatt. Sabina Ott, Krishna Reddy, Paul Taylor, Irving Petlin, Tchan Fou-li, Annette Michelson, Robert Venturi, Geta Brătescu, Henry Wessel Jr., Jane Fortune, Helena Almeida, Milton Gendel,.Mel Ramos, Paul Allen, Jacques Monory, Harold Stevenson, Karl-Heinz Adler, Stan Lee, Lubomir Tomaszewski, Peter Peryer, Robert Morris, Vivian Lynn, Enrico Crispolti, Wendy Beckett, Jean Dumontier

2017 in art - Death of John Berger, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, Ciel Bergman, Charles Recher, Moshe Gershuni, Dore Ashton, Harvey Lichtenstein, Jannis Kounellis, Sofia Imber, Fritz Koenig, Ren Hang, Gustav Metzger, Howard Hodgkin, Trisha Brown, David Rockefeller, George Woodman, Mirella Bentivoglio, Julian Stanczak, James Rosenquist, Glenn O'Brien, Barkley L. Hendricks, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Vito Acconci, A. R. Penck, Michael Zwack, Jack Tilton, Felipe Ehrenberg, Marie Cosindas, Trento Longaretti, Edit DeAk, Khadija Saye, Olbram Zoubek, Hans Breder, José Luis Cuevas, Lala Rukh, Kenneth Jay Lane, Arlene Gottfried, John Ashberry, Arno Rink, Pierre Bergé, Pete Turner, David Shepherd, Eleanore Mikus, Robert Delpire, Holly Block, Fernando de Szyszlo, Richard Hambleton, Linda Nochlin, Trevor Bell, Frans Krajcberg, Enrico Castellani, Ivan Chermayeff, Lewis Manilow, Tim Rollins

2016 in art - Death of David Bowie, Thornton Dial, Charles Garabedian, Douglas Haynes, Bernard Kirschenbaum, Zaha Hadid, Richard Smith, Charles Gatewood, Marisol Escobar, Louisa Chase, Bill Berkson, Kenworth Moffett, Tony Feher, Bill Cunningham, Ben Patterson, Billy Name, Nathan Lyons, Ralph Goings, Shirley Jaffe, Walter Darby Bannard, Elaine Lustig Cohen, Klaus Kertess, David Antin, Leonard Cohen, Kenneth Snelson, Tyrus Wong

2015 in art - Death of Milton Hebald, Jane Wilson, Walter Liedtke, John C. Whitehead, Tomie Ohtake, Sheila Girling, Carel Visser, William King, Michael Graves, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Paule Anglim, Sargy Mann, Lars Tunbjörk, Judith Malina, Menashe Kadishman, Chris Burden, Rachel Rosenthal, Rosemarie Castoro, Mary Ellen Mark, Miriam Schapiro, David Aronson, Ingrid Sischy, Sally Gross, Melva Bucksbaum, Nelson Shanks, John Perreault, Brian Sewell, Paul Reed, Wojciech Fangor, Holly Woodlawn, George Earl Ortman, Ellsworth Kelly

2014 in art - Death of R. Crosby Kemper Jr., Madeline Gins, Douglas Davis, René Ricard, Joan Mondale, Nancy Holt, Terry Adkins, Mirella Levi D'Ancona, Lyman Kipp, Leee Black Childers, Alan Davie, Maria Lassnig, Elaine Sturtevant, H. R. Giger, Robyn Denny, Ultra Violet, Jennifer Wynne Reeves, On Kawara, Otto Piene, Sam Hunter, Edward Leffingwell, Marjorie Strider, David Armstrong, Wynn Chamberlain, Jane Freilicher, Jake Berthot

2013 in art - Death of Ted Godwin, Ada Louise Huxtable, Alden Mason, Richard Artschwager, William Perehudoff, Thomas McEvilley, Merton Simpson, Carlos Villa, Zao Wou Ki, David Hayes, Taylor Mead, Thomas M. Messer, Fred Mitchell, Ganesh Pyne, Sarah Charlesworth, Bert Stern, John B. Hightower, Ronnie Cutrone, Walter De Maria, Ruth Asawa, Stephen Antonakos, John Bellany, Jack Beal, Ellen Lanyon, Deborah Turbeville, Sir Anthony Caro, Arthur Danto, Lou Reed, Frank Lobdell, Chryssa

2012 in art - Death of Jan Groover, Dorothea Tanning, Mike Kelley, Antoni Tàpies, Theophilus Brown, Anita Steckel, Kenneth Price, Hilton Kramer, Elizabeth Catlett, Louis le Brocquy, John Golding, Bram Bogart, Paul Jenkins, Georges Mathieu, LeRoy Neiman, Mary Fedden, Ivan Karp, Herbert Vogel, Karl Benjamin, Robert Hughes, Michael Asher, Will Barnet, William Turnbull, Jeffrey Potter, Edward Meneeley

2011 in art - Death of B. H. Friedman, Ellen Stewart, Dennis Oppenheim, Françoise Cachin, Charles O. Perry, Roy Gussow, Alan Uglow, Suze Rotolo, Gabriel Laderman, Leo Steinberg, George Tooker, Stephen De Staebler, Hedda Sterne, John McCracken, Gunter Sachs, Leonora Carrington, Claudio Bravo, M. F. Husain, Jack Smith, Thomas N. Armstrong III, Robert Miller, Cy Twombly, Lucian Freud, John Hoyland, Budd Hopkins, Jeanette Ingberman, Richard Hamilton, Stephen Mueller, Adrian Berg, Pat Passlof, Gerald Laing, John Chamberlain, Helen Frankenthaler

2010 in art - Death of Kenneth Noland, Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal, Robert Natkin, Purvis Young, Deborah Remington, Giuseppe Panza, Avigdor Arikha, Craig Kauffman, Shusaku Arakawa, Dennis Hopper, Lester Johnson, Louise Bourgeois, Sigmar Polke, Paul Thiebaud, Doug Ohlson, Nicolas Carone, Corneille, Ralph T. Coe, Stephen Pace, Robert Goodnough, Sylvia Sleigh, Jack Levine, Nathan Oliveira, Nassos Daphnis, Don Van Vliet, Roy Neuberger

2000s

2009 in art – Death of Coosje van Bruggen, Andrew Wyeth, Howard Kanovitz, Max Neuhaus, Ernest Trova, Hanne Darboven, Frederick Hammersley, Robert Colescott, Dash Snow, Merce Cunningham, Tony Rosenthal, Hyman Bloom, Barry Flanagan, Richard Merkin, Charles Seliger, Nancy Spero, Roy DeCarava, Robert Borgatta, Irving Kriesberg, Jeanne-Claude, Peter Forakis, Thomas Hoving

2008 in art – Death of William Brice, Kahlil Gibran, Dorothy Podber, Enrico Donati, Paul Wonner, Robert Rauschenberg, Will Elder, Cornell Capa, John Plumb, Bruce Conner, Manny Farber, John Russell, Alain Jacquet, Grace Hartigan, Jan Krugier, Guy Peellaert, Willoughby Sharp, Robert Graham

2007 in art – Death of Dan Christensen, Jules Olitski, Sol LeWitt, Jörg Immendorff, Salvatore Scarpitta, Elizabeth Murray, Edward Avedisian, André Emmerich, Lenore Tawney, R. B. Kitaj, Ileana Sonnabend, Paul Brach, Robert Kulicke, Michael Goldberg, Ismail Gulgee, Herman Rose

2006 in art – Death of William Rubin, Mimmo Rotella, Nam June Paik, Allan Kaprow, Isaac Witkin, Karel Appel, Richard Mock, Jason Rhoades, Julio Galán, Marcia Tucker, Emilio Vedova, Robert Rosenblum, Larry Zox, Ruth Bernhard,

2005 in art – Death of Philip Johnson, David Whitney, Al Held, Eugene J. Martin, Walter Hopps, Philip Pavia, Neil Welliver, R. C. Gorman, Fritz Scholder, Clement Meadmore, Alvin D. Loving, and Arman; Christo and wife Jeanne-Claude create The Gates in New York's Central Park;

2004 in art – Death of Gerome Kamrowski, Ward Jackson, Leon Golub, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Cleve Gray, Agnes Martin, Muriel Berman, Tom Wesselmann

2003 in art – Death of Al Hirschfeld, Emerson Woelffer, Lynn Chadwick, Pierre Restany, Dorothy Miller, Kirk Varnedoe, Wally Hedrick

2002 in art – Death of Inge Morath, Peter Voulkos, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Niki de Saint Phalle, George Rickey, Richard Lippold, Stan Rice

2001 in art – Death of Fred Hughes, O. Winston Link, Balthus, Hollis Sigler, David Sylvester, Italo Scanga, Mercedes Matter

2000 in art – Death of Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Edward Gorey, Jacob Lawrence, Stanley Boxer, Leonard Baskin, Gregory Gillespie; Hans Moller

1990s

1999 in art – Death of Paul Cadmus, Patrick Heron, Leo Castelli, Nicholas Krushenick, Stephen Greene

1998 in art – Death of Richard Bellamy, Wolf Vostell, John Krushenick, Dick Higgins, Peter Van Riper, Chris Ofili wins the Turner Prize

1997 in art – Death of Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, Sam Golden, Theodoros Stamos, Philip Berman

1996 in art – Death of Duane Hanson, Dan Flavin, William Copley

1995 in art – Death of Daniel Robbins, Charles Bell, Harry Shoulberg, Nancy Graves, Al Hansen

1994 in art – Death of Donald Judd, Robert Doisneau, Clement Greenberg, Henry Geldzahler, Anni Albers, Paul Delvaux, Sam Francis, Leigh Bowery

1993 in art – Death of Hannah Wilke, Richard Diebenkorn, Robert De Niro, Sr., Thomas Ammann, Leonard Bocour; Rachel Whiteread wins the Turner Prize

1992 in art – Death of Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Francis Bacon, David Wojnarowicz, Joan Mitchell, John Cage, David Hare, Peyo

1991 in art – Death of Robert Motherwell, Jean Tinguely, Leland Bell, Dr.