Edin Numankadić dead at age 78
Edin Numankadić, a Bosnian visual artist, died on June 22, 2026, at the age of 78. Born in Sarajevo on June 13, 1948, he studied at the Pedagogical Academy in…
Famous Dead Artists: Recent Artist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 4,000 obituaries of famous dead artists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Yaacov Agam passed away at age 98
Yaacov Agam, the Israeli sculptor and experimental artist celebrated for his contributions to optical and kinetic art, died on June 21, 2026, at age 98. Born Yaakov Gipstein in Rishon…
Death of Jeff Olson at age 77
Jeff Olson, an American visual effects artist whose work helped shape films including Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Star Trek and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, died on…
Death of Jeff Olson at age 77
Jeff Olson died June 21, 2026. Tags Artists, 21 June 2026, Jeff, Olson, Virgo, June 2026, June 21
Obituary: Mireille Bastin, dead at age 83
Mireille Bastin, a Belgian painter, died on June 20, 2026, at age 83. Born in Uccle on March 30, 1943, she worked as a self-taught artist in the naïve style…
Yuri Vashchenko passes away at age 85
Yuri Vashchenko died on June 19, 2026, in Moscow. He was 85. Vashchenko was a Russian graphic artist and book illustrator, born in Moscow on June 16, 1941. He studied…
Death of Valeriu Sepi at age 80
Valeriu Sepi died on June 19, 2026. Tags Artists, 19 June 2026, Romania, Sepi, Valeriu, June 19, June 2026
Kirsti Sparboe passed away at age 79
Kirsti Sparboe, a Norwegian singer and actress, died on June 19, 2026, at the age of 79. Born on December 7, 1946, in Tromsø, Norway, she began her career in…
Sally Brayley dies at 88
Sally Brayley, a Canadian-American ballet dancer, died on June 18, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in London in 1937 to Canadian parents and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia,…
George Rowlett has died at age 84
George Rowlett, a British painter, died on June 18, 2026. Tags Artists, 18 June 2026, Britain, Cancer, George, Rowlett, June 18, June 2026
Semyon Skrepetsky died at age 45
Semyon Skrepetsky, a Russian artist, activist and blogger, died on June 15, 2026, at age 45. Born Robert Kuzovkov in Altai Krai in 1981, he became known for political caricature,…
Danny Simmons dies at 72
Danny Simmons, an American abstract expressionist painter, died on June 15, 2026, at age 72. Born Daniel Simmons Jr. on August 17, 1953, in New York, he worked as a…
Semyon Skrepetsky died at age 45
Semyon Skrepetsky died on June 15, 2026, at the age of 45. He was a Russian artist known as a painter, musician and blogger. Born in Altai Krai in 1981,…
Győző Somogyi dies at age 83
Győző Somogyi died on June 14, 2026. He was a Hungarian graphic artist and painter. No cause of death was given. Tags Artists, 14 June 2026, Hungary, Somogyi, Győző, June…
Görel Hanser dies at age 76
Görel Hanser, a Swedish record company executive and talent manager known for her work with ABBA, died on June 13, 2026. She was 76. Born Görel Kristina Johnsen on June…
Pauls Butkēvičs dies at 85
Pauls Butkēvičs, the Latvian actor known for I Remember Everything, Richard, Four White Shirts and Long Road in the Dunes, died on June 12, 2026. He was 85. Born in…
Portchie has died at age 62
Portchie died on June 12, 2026. He was a South African painter and sculptor. Tags Artists, 12 June 2026, Portchie, June 12, June 2026, South Africa
Görel Johnsen died at age 77
Görel Johnsen, a Swedish record company executive who played a central role at Polar Music, died on June 12, 2026. She was 77. Born Görel Kristina Johnsen in Skultorp, Sweden,…
Margaret Kerry passes away at age 97
Margaret Kerry, an American dancer and actress best known for Peter Pan and If You Knew Susie, died on June 11, 2026, at age 97. Born Peggy Lynch on May…
David Hockney dies at age 88
David Hockney, the English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, died on June 11, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, on July…
Obituary: Philip Booth, dead at age 66
Philip Booth, a British-Canadian singer known for the song “Ulterior Motives,” died on June 11, 2026, at the age of 66. Born in Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, on…
David Fairrington passes away at age 85
David Fairrington, an American painter known for his realistic portraits and a range of other subjects, died on June 10, 2026, at age 85. Born David Neal Fairrington on October…
Emi Koyama, died aged 51
Emi Koyama died on June 10, 2026. Koyama was an artist. Tags Artists, Scientists, 10 June 2026, Emi, Koyama, June 10, June 2026
Death of Wim T. Schippers at age 83
Wim T. Schippers, a Dutch comedian, actor and visual artist, died on June 10, 2026. He was 83. Known for the television programs De Fred Haché Show and Van Oekel's…
Duane Michals has died at age 94
Duane Michals, an American photographer known for inventive photo-sequences that often combined text with images to explore emotion and philosophy, died on June 9, 2026. He was 94. Born in…
Robert Greenidge passed away at age 76
Robert Greenidge, a Trinidadian steelpan player and composer, died on June 8, 2026, at age 76. Born on April 28, 1950, in Laventille, Trinidad and Tobago, he began performing as…
Obituary: Helmut Nadolski, dead at age 83
Helmut Nadolski, a Polish musician, died on June 8, 2026, at the age of 83. Born in Gdynia on October 27, 1942, he became known as a bassist, composer, poet,…
Jeannette Weiss Gruber dies at 91
Jeannette Weiss Gruber, a French glass painter, died on June 7, 2026. Tags Artists, 07 June 2026, France, Gruber, Jeannette, June 2026, June 7
Elfie Semotan obituary: died at age 99
Elfie Semotan died on June 6, 2026. She was an Austrian photographer and model. Born in Wels on July 25, 1941, she studied at the Modeschule Wien im Schloss Hetzendorf.…
Talay Riley passes away at age 35
Talay Riley, a British singer-songwriter, died on June 5, 2026, after being stabbed in Silvertown, London. He was 35. Born Mark Olayinka Orabiyi on July 10, 1990, Riley began his…
Obituary: Norman Balon, dead at age 89
Norman Balon, the British publican who spent more than six decades as landlord of the Coach and Horses in Soho, died on June 4, 2026. Born in Ilford on January…
Marjane Satrapi dies at age 56
Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian author of Chicken with Plums and director of Persepolis and Dear Paris, died on June 4, 2026, at the age of 56. Born in Rasht County,…
Greg James obituary: died at age 71
Greg James, an American tattoo artist known for designs and original artwork that appeared in magazines, books, documentaries and at the Hard Rock Cafe, died on June 4, 2026, at…
John B. Williams passed away at age 85
John B. Williams, an American double bassist and bass guitarist known for his work on The Tonight Show and The Arsenio Hall Show, died on June 4, 2026, at age…
John Blanche dies at 77
John Blanche, the British fantasy and science fiction illustrator whose work helped define White Dwarf and Warhammer 40,000, died on June 3, 2026. He was 77. Blanche, born in 1948,…
Jagannath Prasad Das dies at age 90
Jagannath Prasad Das, the Indian writer and poet known for his work in Odia, died on June 3, 2026, at the age of 90. Born in Puri on April 26,…
Eszter Láng obituary: died at age 78
Eszter Láng died on June 2, 2026. She was a painter. Tags Artists, 02 June 2026, Eszter, Hungary, June 2, June 2026, Láng
Spider Webb died at age 81
Spider Webb, an American jazz drummer and session musician, died on June 2, 2026. He was 81. Born Kenneth Ronald Rice in Detroit on June 15, 1944, he began playing…
Eszter Láng obituary: died at age 78
Eszter Láng died on June 2, 2026. Tags Artists, 02 June 2026, Eszter, Hungary, June 2, June 2026, Láng
Death of Peabo Bryson at age 75
Peabo Bryson, the American singer and songwriter known for “Tonight, I Celebrate My Love,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “A Whole New World,” died on June 2, 2026, at age…
Jay Silva passed away at age 45
Jay Silva, an Angolan-born American mixed martial artist, died on June 1, 2026. He was 45. Born in Luanda on May 25, 1981, Silva competed as a heavyweight and fought…
Obituary: Knut Husebø, dead at age 80
Knut Husebø, a Norwegian visual artist and actor, died on June 1, 2026, at the age of 80. Born in Stavanger on May 10, 1946, he built a long career…
Master Parrot obituary: died at age 47
Master Parrot, a Ugandan dancehall and Afro-pop music artist, died on June 1, 2026. Born David Sifaayo in 1978, he emerged in the 2000s as part of Uganda’s contemporary dancehall…
Sir Angus Stirling death at age 92
Sir Angus Stirling, a British arts administrator and conservationist who served as director general of the National Trust, died on June 1, 2026, at the age of 92. Born Angus…
Keith Anthony Morrison died at age 84
Keith Anthony Morrison, a Jamaican-American painter, died on June 1, 2026, at age 84. Born in Linstead, Jamaica, he studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, earning…
Matthew Spender, died aged 81
Matthew Spender, the English sculptor and writer whose death was announced on May 31, 2026, died at 81. Born in London in 1945, he was also a painter and biographer,…
William Coupon passed away at age 73
William Coupon died on May 30, 2026. He was an American photographer. Tags Artists, 30 May 2026, America, Coupon, William, May 2026, May 30
Julio Le Parc obituary: died at age 97
Julio Le Parc, the Argentine-French artist whose experiments in painting, sculpture and visual art helped shape modern kinetic and op art, died on May 30, 2026. He was 97. Born…
Charles Hinman passes away at age 93
Charles Hinman died on May 29, 2026. He was an American painter. Tags Artists, 29 May 2026, America, Charles, Hinman, May 2026, May 29
Death of Sidney Moko Mead at age 99
Sidney Moko Mead, a New Zealand Māori anthropologist and historian, died on May 29, 2026. He was 99. Born in Wairoa on January 8, 1927, Mead was also known as…
Marie-Jo Lafontaine obituary: died at age 75
Marie-Jo Lafontaine, the Belgian sculptor and video artist, died on May 28, 2026. She was 75. Born in Antwerp on November 17, 1950, she studied at the École nationale supérieure…
Paul Dorpat death at age 87
Paul Dorpat, an American historian, died on May 27, 2026. He was 87. Dorpat was an author and photographer who focused on the history of Seattle and Washington state. He…
Jay Milder, died aged 92
Jay Milder, an American painter, died on May 27, 2026, at 92. A figurative expressionist associated with the second generation of the New York School, he developed a body of…
Alan Saret dies at 81
Alan Saret, an American postminimalist artist and sculptor whose wire works helped define parts of the Soho alternative art scene, died on May 26, 2026. He was 81. Born in…
Yoshihiro Nishimura died at age 59
Yoshihiro Nishimura, a Japanese film director, screenwriter and special effects artist, died on May 25, 2026. He was 59. Born on April 1, 1967, in Taitō-ku, Nishimura worked predominantly in…
John Claridge, died aged 81
John Claridge died on May 24, 2026. He was a British photographer. Tags Artists, 24 May 2026, Britain, Claridge, John, May 2026, May 24
Heinrich Jarczyk passed away at age 101
Heinrich Jarczyk died on May 24, 2026, at the age of 101. The German natural scientist, draftsman and painter was also described in records as a biologist and artist. Born…
Jordi Amorós has died at age 82
Jordi Amorós, the Spanish cartoonist and animator known for satirical comics and pioneering work in adult animation, died on May 24, 2026. He was 82. Born Jordi Amorós i Ballester…
Jordi Amorós i Ballester dead at age 82
Jordi Amorós i Ballester died on May 24, 2026. He was a Spanish cartoonist and animator. Tags Artists, 24 May 2026, Aries, Ballester, Jordi, Spain, May 2026, May 24
Tess Jaray passed away at age 88
Tess Jaray, the British painter and printmaker, died on May 24, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Vienna on December 31, 1937, she was a painter, printmaker and…
James Anthony Carmichael, died aged 84
James Anthony Carmichael, an American musician and record producer, died on May 23, 2026, at the age of 84. A Grammy-winning arranger and producer, he began his career in Los…
Arleen Schloss passed away at age 82
Arleen Schloss, an American performance artist, died on May 23, 2026. She was 82. Schloss was known for performance art, video and film art, sound poetry, directing and curating, and…
DJ Congélateur dead
DJ Congélateur, the stage name of Ivorian singer and artist Koffi Kouakou Elias, died on May 21, 2026. Born in Ivory Coast, he also worked as a coupé-décalé artist and…
Diane Carlson Evans has died at age 79
Diane Carlson Evans, an American army nurse, died on May 20, 2026, at the age of 79. She served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War and later…
Jacob Cress dead at age 81
Jacob Cress, an American furniture maker known for his interpretations of classical 18th-century furniture, died on May 19, 2026. He was 81. Born in 1944 in Norton, Virginia, he worked…
Marideth Sisco passes away at age 82
Marideth Sisco, an American author and musician, died on May 18, 2026, at the age of 82. Also known as Marideth Ann Sisco, she was an American storyteller, folklorist, singer-songwriter,…
Death of Predrag Koraksić Corax at age 92
Predrag Koraksić Corax, a Serbian political caricaturist, died on May 16, 2026, at the age of 92. Born on June 15, 1933, in Gornja Gorevnica near Čačak, then in the…
Dai-won Moon died at age 83
Dai-won Moon, a South Korean-born Mexican taekwondo practitioner, died on May 16, 2026, at age 83. Known as the Father of Mexican Taekwondo, he introduced the sport to Mexico in…
Death of Silvio Benedetto at age 88
Silvio Benedetto, the Argentine painter and sculptor, died on May 16, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Buenos Aires on March 21, 1938, he was a naturalized Italian…
João Abel Manta dies at 98
João Abel Manta, Portuguese architect, painter and cartoonist, died on May 15, 2026, at the age of 98. Born in Lisbon on Jan. 29, 1928, he graduated in architecture from…
Obituary: Harald Metzkes, dead at age 97
Harald Metzkes, a German painter and graphic artist, died on May 14, 2026, at the age of 97. Born in Bautzen, Saxony, on January 23, 1929, he grew up there…
Valie Export dies at 85
Valie Export, Austrian artist, died on May 14, 2026, at the age of 85. Born Waltraud Lehner in Linz, Austria, she became known as an avant-garde artist whose work included…
Obituary: Nikolay Tsaturyan, dead at age 81
Nikolay Tsaturyan, the Armenian theatre director, died on May 14, 2026, in Yerevan. Born in Yerevan on January 8, 1945, Tsaturyan was also an actor and playwright and was named…
Noel Galea Bason, died aged 71
Noel Galea Bason died on May 14, 2026. He was a Maltese medalist and sculptor. Noel Galea Bason [it], 71, Maltese medalist and sculptor. Tags Artists, 14 May 2026, Bason,…
Dileep Raj has died at age 47
Dileep Raj, an Indian actor, died on May 13, 2026, of a heart attack. He was 47. Known for his work in Kannada cinema and television, he appeared in films…
Vladimir Ovchinnikov dead at age 88
Vladimir Ovchinnikov, the Russian painter, ethnographer and social activist, died on May 13, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Dushanbe in 1938, he graduated from Moscow State University…
Death of Jack Douglas at age 80
Jack Douglas, an American record producer known for his work on "Toys in the Attic," "Rocks" and "Double Fantasy," died on May 11, 2026. He was 80. Douglas was a…
Obituary: Mary Lovelace, dead at age 84
Mary Lovelace O'Neal, an American artist and arts educator, died on May 10, 2026, at age 84. Born in Jackson, Mississippi, on February 10, 1942, she was known for painting…
Michael Pennington dies at age 82
Michael Pennington, the English actor, director and writer who co-founded the English Shakespeare Company, died on May 10, 2026, aged 82. Born in Cambridge on June 7, 1943, he was…
Raymonde Arcier death at age 86
Raymonde Arcier, a French artist and feminist activist, died on May 7, 2026, at the age of 86. Born in Bellac on November 13, 1939, she was known for her…
René Groebli death at age 98
René Groebli, a Swiss photographer known for his artistic photo-books, industrial and advertising photography, photojournalism and photo-illustration, died on May 5, 2026, at the age of 98. Born in Zurich…
David Plowden passed away at age 93
David Plowden, an American photographer, died on May 4, 2026. He was born on October 9, 1932, in Boston and became known for historical documentary photographs of urban cities, steam…
Ben Morea obituary: died at age 84
Ben Morea, an American painter and anarchist activist, died on May 2, 2026, at age 84–85. Born in Brooklyn in 1941 and raised in poverty, he became addicted to heroin…
José María Cruz Novillo passed away at age 89
José María Cruz Novillo, the Spanish painter, designer and sculptor, died on May 2, 2026. Born in Cuenca on May 21, 1936, he was also a sculptor, engraver and graphic…
Michael Sollis dies at age 40
Michael Sollis, an Australian musician, died on May 1, 2026, aged 40, from bowel cancer. He was also an interdisciplinary artist, artistic director, researcher and teaching artist. Sollis founded and…
Georg Baselitz dead at age 88
Georg Baselitz, German painter and sculptor, died on April 30, 2026, at the age of 88. Born Hans-Georg Kern in Deutschbaselitz, Germany, on January 23, 1938, he was also a…
Yair Garbuz dies at 80
Yair Garbuz, an Israeli visual artist, writer, and opinion journalist, died on April 29, 2026, at the age of 80. Born in Givatayim, Mandatory Palestine, on September 29, 1945, he…
Carla Van Zon passed away at age 74
Carla Van Zon, a New Zealand artistic director, died on April 29, 2026, aged 74. Born Carla Marja Olga van Zon in Te Atatū on January 20, 1952, she worked…
Raghu Rai died at age 83
Raghu Rai, an Indian photographer and photojournalist, died on April 26, 2026, in Delhi, India, at the age of 83, from cancer. He became a photographer in the mid-1960s and…
Death of Dick Matena at age 83
Dick Matena, a Dutch comics writer and cartoonist, died on April 26, 2026, at the age of 83. He was known for his work on Storm and for cartooning on…
Annette Macarthur-Onslow passes away at age 93
Annette Macarthur-Onslow died on April 25, 2026. Tags Artists, Writers, 25 April 2026, Annette, Australia, April 2026, April 25, Macarthur-Onslow
Jarvis Rockwell dead at age 94
Jarvis Rockwell died on April 25, 2026. Tags Artists, 25 April 2026, America, Jarvis, Rockwell, April 2026, April 25
Kim Bowers Australian musician, music director and sound artist, breast cancer dies
Kim Bowers, an Australian musician, music director and sound artist associated with Spdfgh, died on April 24, 2026, of breast cancer. Bowers was a founding member of Spdfgh, an Australian…
George Herms dies at 90
George Herms, an American artist known for assemblages, works on paper, and poetry, died on April 24, 2026, at the age of 90. Born in 1935 in Woodland, California, he…
Nicole Hollander passes away at age 86
Nicole Hollander died on April 23, 2026. Tags Artists, 23 April 2026, America, Hollander, Nicole, April 2026, April 23
Obituary: Jack R. Thornell, dead at age 86
Jack R. Thornell, an American photographer, died on April 23, 2026, from complications from kidney disease. He was 86. Born Jack Randolph Thornell in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on August 29, 1939,…
Jean-Benoît Meybeck has died at age 53
Jean-Benoît Meybeck, a French comic book author and illustrator, died on April 23, 2026, at the age of 53. Born in Grenoble on January 29, 1973, he worked as a…
Sylvana Lorenz dead at age 73
Sylvana Lorenz, French art dealer and writer, died on April 23, 2026, at the age of 73. Born in Tunis, Tunisia, on February 14, 1953, she opened her first art…
Mijo Kovačić obituary: died at age 89
Mijo Kovačić, the Croatian painter, died on April 22, 2026. He was 89. A naïve artist whose works are held at the Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb, Kovačić…