Faith Ringgold, Frank Stella, Richard Serra, Audrey Flack, Yong Soon Min and Lorraine O’Grady are some of the artists we will lose in 2024. Among them were Palestinian artists killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. Below is the complete list of artists, curators, writers, and art dealers we are honoring this year for their lasting contributions to our field.
Brent Sikma
The American art dealer, a partner at Manhattan contemporary art gallery Sikkema Jenkins & Company, was found dead in his apartment in Rio de Janeiro in early January, reportedly from a stab wound. Police investigation is ongoing. He is 75 years old.
Lisa Hunter
The beloved American printmaker and designer died on January 31 at the age of 55.
Fati Gaben
The self-taught Gazan painter who became a pioneer of post-disaster visual art died on February 25 at the age of 77 after Israeli authorities barred him from leaving the blockaded enclave for medical treatment.
Yong Chunmin
The Korean-American artist died on March 12 at the age of 70.
Maldixon
The British social media guru, known for her internet campaigns connecting individuals to art institutions, including the #AskACurator trend, died on March 16 at the age of 53.
Richard Serra
The renowned American sculptor, whose large-scale steel works challenged concepts of time and space, died on March 26 at the age of 85.
Leding District
The multimedia and installation artist, whose work rivaled post-war Vietnam, died on April 6 at the age of 56.
Faith Ringgold
The renowned multimedia artist and activist, known for her story quilts that addressed social justice themes, died on April 13 at the age of 93.
Frank Stella
The pioneering abstract sculptor and painter died on May 4 at the age of 87.
Steve Albini
Music producer and recording engineer, best known for his work with Nirvana in utero, Died on May 7 at the age of 61.
Joe Sugar
The Chicago-born painter died on May 15 at the age of 82. He rejected the conventions of Abstract Expressionism, using materials such as cotton balls in his works.
Barbara Gladstone
The art dealer, whose eponymous Manhattan gallery represented more than 70 of the field’s most prominent contemporary artists and estates, died in Paris on June 16 at the age of 89 after a brief illness.
Chaim Perry
The Israeli gallerist and artist, remembered for his dedication to the visual arts and his gallery’s display of Palestinian and Bedouin art, died in June at the age of 79 while in Hamas captivity, according to the Israeli military. age.
Anton von Dalen
The East Village artist, pigeon breeder and self-styled archivist died at his home on June 25 at the age of 86, after nearly six decades of dedicated service to the community.
Audrey Fleck
The internationally renowned artist, one of the pioneering women of the Photorealism movement in the late 1960s, died on June 28 at her home in East Hampton. She was 93. In her 2021 podcast interview allergic Can be found here.
Jacqueline DeJong
The Dutch painter, whose avant-garde feminist works have gained popularity in recent years, died on July 2 at the age of 85.
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The New York-based artist, who died on July 1 at the age of 94, whose paintings reflected a curiosity about movement.
Bill Viola
The California video artist, whose media installations and video portraits explored universal human experiences, died on July 12 in Long Beach at the age of 73.
Alex Janvier
The Aboriginal abstract painter, who blended Denissurin imagery with other contemporary styles, died on July 10 at the age of 89.
Derek Stafford Magnus
Artist, writer, and guard at the Baltimore Museum of Art, as well as allergic Contributor, Died on July 7 at the age of 46.
David Anfam
The British curator and art historian, whose estate included a catalog raisonné by Mark Rothko and a book about Clyfford Still, died on August 21 at the age of 69. ‘s writings.
Rebecca Horn
The German artist died on September 10 at the age of 80. His six decades of multimedia work have contributed to pioneering the art of body expansion.
Richard Mayhew
The landscape painter, whose brightly colored abstract works examined identity and place, died on September 26 at the age of 100 in Soquel, California.
Carey Dick
The master Chilkat weaver, who practiced and taught traditional weaving, beading and carving, died on October 9 at the age of 41.
Paul Lowe
The award-winning photojournalist, whose work shed light on world conflict and reconciliation, was allegedly murdered by his teenage son on October 15 at the age of 60.
Patricia Johnson
The environmental artist, whose work combined engineering and art to create large-scale public installations designed to protect ecosystems, died on October 21 in New York at the age of 84.
Mahasen al-Khatib
The Palestinian digital illustrator, whose work depicts life in Gaza during Israeli military bombing, was reportedly killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Jabaliya refugee camp on October 18. Only 32 years old.
Sarah Cunningham
The British painter, who has become popular for his abstract large-scale oil paintings in recent years, was declared missing after entering the train station on November 2 and was later found dead at the age of 31.
Sabina Coramdell
The New York-based Tajik artist, known for his intuitive paintings and seven-channel video art commissioned for the 60th Venice Biennale, was found dead in an apparent murder on October 28 at the age of 33 age.
Frank Auerbach
The German-born artist, who fled to Britain to escape the Nazi death camps where his parents were murdered, was praised for his unique portraits and scenes of North London. He died in London on November 11 at the age of 93.
Eunice Parsons
The organ-based artist and educator, whose collages, prints and paintings influenced Pacific Northwest artists for seven decades, died on November 19 at the age of 108.
Anna Banana
The Canadian conceptual artist and magazine producer died on November 29 in British Columbia at the age of 84. She uses the symbol of the banana in her magazine to spark social interaction and conversation about global trade.
Nikki Giovanni
The poet, activist and educator known as the “Princess of Black Poetry” died on December 9 at the age of 81, and her work reflected her role in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and ’70s.
Steven Englund
The former Lower East Side artist squat turned longtime director of arts organization ABC No Rio, known for purchasing the nonprofit’s property for just one dollar under threat of eviction, died on December 12 at the age of 63.
Lorraine O’Grady
The seminal conceptual artist and critic, whose films, photographs, collages and performances subverted hierarchies from a black feminist perspective, died on December 13 in New York at the age of 90.
Zilia Sanchez
The Cuban artist, whose “erotic topologies” merged abstraction with the female form, died on December 19 at the age of 98.
