Bakir Bayakhunov died at age 93
Bakir Bayakhunov, a Kazakh composer and People’s Artist of Kazakhstan, died October 9, 2026, aged 93. Born in Almaty on September 15, 1933, he studied at the Almaty Conservatory, now…
Famous Dead Artists: Recent Artist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 4,000 obituaries of famous dead artists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Vladimír Kopecký passed away at age 94
Vladimír Kopecký, the Czech painter, graphic artist and glass artist who taught at university, died October 8, 2026, aged 94. Born in Svojanov on November 26, 1931, he wanted to…
Brice Tarvel dies at age 80
Brice Tarvel, a French author and comics artist, died October 7, 2026, aged 80. Born Jean Pol Laselle in Reims on August 5, 1946, he became known professionally by the…
Nikolay Tevetkel obituary: died at age 90
Nikolay Tevetkel, a Russian poet and translator, died in Cheboksary on October 6, 2026, aged 90. He was also a prose writer and playwright, working across several literary forms. Born…
Fusako Yusaki death at age 89
Fusako Yusaki, the Japanese-Italian stop-motion animator, died October 6, 2026, aged 89. Born in 1937, she studied at Brera Academy and became known for claymation, making animated works with plasticine.…
Juarez Machado passes away at age 85
Juarez Machado, the Brazilian painter, died October 6, 2026, aged 85. Born in Joinville, Santa Catarina, in 1941, he studied fine arts at the School of Art in Paraná, in…
Hélène Hazera death at age 74
Hélène Hazera, a French journalist and transgender rights activist, died October 5, 2026, aged 74. Born in Paris in 1952, she grew up in a violent household. At 17, she…
Death of Matt Howarth at age 72
Matt Howarth, an American comic book writer and artist, died October 5, 2026, aged 72. He was known for the series Those Annoying Post Bros, Savage Henry, Star Crossed and…
Obituary: Michael Kearns, dead at age 76
Michael Kearns, an American actor and activist, died October 5, 2026, aged 76. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he studied at the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago, graduating in…
Shalva Bedoyev passes away at age 85
Shalva Bedoyev, a Russian painter, died on October 4, 2026, aged 85. Born on October 15, 1940, in the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast, he became known as a Soviet and…
Mad Sandhu death at age 29
Mad Sandhu, an Indian LGBTQ social media influencer and make-up artist, died in Amritsar on October 3, 2026, aged 29. Born Madhusudan Sandhu, he also worked as a stylist and…
Denys Tremblay dies at age 75
Denys Tremblay, a Canadian artist and micronational leader who served as king of L'Anse-Saint-Jean, died October 2, 2026, aged 75. Born in Chicoutimi, Quebec, on February 5, 1951, Tremblay was…
Oscar Reynert Olsen has died at age 101
Oscar Reynert Olsen, a Norwegian artist, died on October 1, 2026, aged 101. Born in Stavanger on May 23, 1925, he built a career as an illustrator, painter, graphic artist…
J. Todd Anderson dead at age 125
J. Todd Anderson, an American storyboard artist, died on October 1, 2026, aged 125. He worked with a number of filmmakers, including the Coen brothers, and also helped produce the…
Štěpánka Ranošová dies at age 99
Štěpánka Ranošová, the Czech actress and founding member of the Petr Bezruč Theatre in Ostrava, died on October 1, 2026, aged 99. Born in Mariánské Hory, now part of Ostrava,…
Karel Zelenko has died at age 101
Karel Zelenko, the Slovenian graphic artist and illustrator, died on October 1, 2026, aged 101. Born in Celje on September 15, 1925, he studied at art and design schools in…
Scott Froschauer obituary: died at age 57
Scott Froschauer, an American artist, sculptor and key grip, died on September 30, 2026, aged 57. He was known for public art installations that altered traditional traffic signs to convey…
Death of Maxín Picallo at age 86
Maxín Picallo, the Spanish sculptor, died on September 28, 2026, at age 86. Born in Santo Ildefonso, in the parish of Troáns, Cuntis, in 1940, he was also known as…
Obituary: Ken Taylor, dead at age 91
Ken Taylor, the English cricketer who played three Tests for England between 1959 and 1964, died on September 28, 2026, aged 91. Born in Huddersfield on August 21, 1935, he…
Manuel Seal dead at age 66
Manuel Seal, an American record producer and songwriter, died on September 27, 2026, aged 66. Born Manuel Lonnie Seal Jr. on September 26, 1960, in Freeport, he worked across pop,…
Guruh Sukarnoputra obituary: died at age 73
Guruh Sukarnoputra, the Indonesian politician and artist who served as a member of the People's Representative Council, died on September 26, 2026, aged 73. Born Muhammad Guruh Irianto Sukarnoputra in…
Carmen Aldunate death at age 86
Carmen Aldunate, a Chilean painter, died on September 25, 2026, aged 86. Born Carmen Zita Aldunate Salas in Viña del Mar in 1940, she became associated with the profile-based, pre-Renaissance-inspired…
Aleksei Kozlov has died at age 90
Aleksei Kozlov, the Russian saxophonist and jazz musician who helped shape Soviet-era jazz, died on September 25, 2026, aged 90. Born in Moscow on October 13, 1935, he became one…
Obituary: Leo Gaje, dead at age 88
Leo Gaje, a Filipino martial artist and the grandson and heir of Conrado B. Tortal, died on September 25, 2026, aged 88. Born in the Philippines on May 5, 1938,…
Pieak Poster obituary: died at age 93
Pieak Poster, the stage name of Thai filmmaker, film poster artist and actor Somboonsuk Niyomsiri, died on September 24, 2026, aged 93. Born Somboonsuk Niyomsiri, he became one of Thailand’s…
Piak Poster obituary: died at age 93
Piak Poster, the Thai filmmaker, film poster artist and actor known off screen as Somboonsuk Niyomsiri, died on September 24, 2026, aged 93. Born in Chiang Mai in 1932, he…
Manuel Boix death at age 83
Manuel Boix, the Spanish painter and sculptor known for helping introduce new realism in Franco-era Spain, died on September 23, 2026, aged 83. Born in L'Alcúdia on December 18, 1942,…
Obituary: Soorya Krishnamoorthy, dead at age 78
Soorya Krishnamoorthy, the Indian artist and philanthropist who founded the Soorya Festival, died on September 23, 2026, aged 78. Also known as Nataraja Krishnamoorthy, he was associated with the Soorya…
Rodolphe has died at age 78
Rodolphe, the French comics writer known professionally by that name, died on September 22, 2026, at age 78. Born Rodolphe Daniel Jacquette in Bois-Colombes on May 18, 1948, he built…
Hadi Abbas dead, Hadi Abbas, Iraqi sculptor
Hadi Abbas, an Iraqi sculptor, died on September 21, 2026. He was regarded as one of the prominent figures in sculpture in Iraq and helped institutionalize collective artistic work through…
Obituary: Rick Sollo, dead at age 59
Rick Sollo, the Brazilian singer, songwriter and producer of sertanejo music, died on September 21, 2026, aged 59. Born Geraldo Antônio de Carvalho in Monte do Carmo, Tocantins, on December…
Carlos Alonso, died aged 97
Carlos Alonso, an Argentine painter, draftsman and printmaker, died on September 21, 2026, aged 97. Born in Tunuyán, Mendoza, in 1929, he developed an early reputation as a social realist…
Terry Denton death at age 76
Terry Denton, the Australian author and illustrator best known for his work on the Treehouse books, died on September 21, 2026, aged 76. He wrote and illustrated more than 30…
Angry Anderson passed away at age 79
Angry Anderson, the Australian singer-songwriter and television personality best known as the lead vocalist of Rose Tattoo, died on September 21, 2026, aged 79. Born Gary Stephen Anderson in Melbourne,…
Graciela Taquini passed away at age 85
Graciela Taquini, the Argentine artist, curator and teacher whose work helped shape the country’s video-art scene, died on September 19, 2026, aged 85. Born in Buenos Aires on July 1,…
Eugenio Zanetti, died aged 79
Eugenio Zanetti, the Argentine dramatist and set designer who won an Academy Award for Best Production Design, died on September 18, 2026, aged 79. Born in Córdoba in 1946, Zanetti…
Obituary: P. C. Vey, dead at age 70
P. C. Vey, the American cartoonist whose work appeared in The New Yorker, MAD Magazine and National Lampoon, died on September 17, 2026, aged 70. Known professionally as Peter C.…
Pierre Collin obituary: died at age 69
Pierre Collin, the French painter, engraver, illustrator and sculptor, died on September 15, 2026, at the age of 69. Born in Paris on September 27, 1956, he studied at the…
Obituary: Andy Donato, dead at age 89
Andy Donato, a Canadian editorial cartoonist, newspaper art director and painter, died on September 15, 2026, aged 89. His newspaper career spanned 65 years, beginning with his move to the…
Death of Sven-Bertil Bärnarp at age 86
Sven-Bertil Bärnarp, the Swedish cartoonist, died on September 15, 2026, aged 86. Born in Gothenburg on January 16, 1940, he trained in graphic design and became known for a daily…
Ben Saunders passed away at age 43
Ben Saunders, the Dutch singer and tattoo artist who won the first title of The Voice of Holland, died on September 15, 2026, at age 43. Born in London on…
Griselda Gambaro passes away at age 98
Griselda Gambaro, the Argentine playwright and writer whose work examined political violence in her country, died on September 15, 2026, aged 98. Born in Buenos Aires on July 24, 1928,…
Bodil Cappelen dies at age 96
Bodil Cappelen, a Norwegian artist and writer, died on September 14, 2026, aged 96. Born in Stavanger on April 26, 1930, she worked as a painter, textile artist and book…
Peter Max, died aged 88
Peter Max, the German-American pop artist known for his bright, vividly colored work, died on September 14, 2026, at age 88. Born Peter Max Finkelstein in Berlin on October 19,…
Gopiram Bargayn Burabhakat dies at age 97
Gopiram Bargayn Burabhakat, an Indian sattriya artist, died on September 14, 2026, aged 97. He was from Majuli, Assam, and was recognized for his lifelong association with the Sattriya tradition.…
Obituary: Catherine Ringer, dead at age 68
Catherine Ringer, the French singer and musician best known as the co-founder and lead vocalist of Les Rita Mitsouko, died on September 14, 2026, aged 68. Born in Suresnes on…
Liang Shaoji passed away at age 81
Liang Shaoji, the Chinese conceptual artist known for work exhibited internationally, died on September 13, 2026, at age 81. Born in Shanghai in 1945 and originally from Zhongshan, he studied…
Ian Berry dies at 91
Ian Berry, the English photojournalist who documented some of the defining moments of apartheid-era South Africa, died on September 13, 2026, aged 91. Born in Preston in 1934, he built…
Bernice Offei passes away at age 63
Bernice Offei, a Ghanaian gospel singer and banker, died on September 12, 2026, aged 63. Born in Accra, she built a career as a musician and songwriter and was among…
Bernice Ofei passes away at age 63
Bernice Ofei, a Ghanaian gospel singer, died on September 12, 2026, aged 63. Born in Accra, she was also known as Bernice Offei and worked as a musician, banker and…
Obituary: Artur Heras, dead at age 81
Artur Heras, a Spanish painter, died on September 10, 2026, aged 81. Born Artur Heras i Sanz in Xàtiva in April 1945, he studied fine arts in Valencia and later…
Obituary: Samuel Gelblung, dead at age 82
Samuel Gelblung, the Argentine journalist and television host known as Chiche Gelblung, died on September 9, 2026, aged 82, of respiratory failure. Born in Buenos Aires on February 7, 1944,…
Obituary: Alexander Sharovsky, dead at age 78
Alexander Sharovsky, the Azerbaijani actor and theatre director, died on September 9, 2026, aged 78. Born in Baku in 1948, he began his career in 1967 and went on to…
Gabriel Contant, died aged 95
Gabriel Contant, a Canadian painter, died on September 8, 2026, aged 95. Born on January 4, 1931, in Joliette, Quebec, he studied under Stanley Cosgrove at the École des beaux-arts…
Lucien Smith has died at age 37
Lucien Smith, an American artist known for painting, died on September 8, 2026, aged 37. Born in Los Angeles in 1989, he studied at The Cooper Union and became one…
Obituary: Alexandr Pashchenko, dead at age 81
Alexandr Pashchenko died on September 8, 2026, aged 81. He was a Russian singer, actor and director, and a People's Artist of Russia. His death was reported in the context…
Obituary: Alexandr Pashchenko, dead at age 81
Alexandr Pashchenko, a Russian singer, actor, and director and People’s Artist of Russia, died on September 8, 2026, aged 81. Born in Orenburg on June 3, 1945, he became associated…
Nina Popova death at age 81
Nina Popova, a Russian actress of stage, film and television, died on September 7, 2026, aged 81. Born in Bugulma in 1945, she trained at the Moscow Art Theatre School,…
Nina Popova dies at 81
Nina Popova, a Russian actress who worked in theater and film, died on September 7, 2026, aged 81. Born in Bugulma on March 20, 1945, she studied at the Moscow…
Walter Kershaw obituary: died at age 85
Walter Kershaw, the English artist known for graffiti, street art, sculpture and mural painting, died on September 6, 2026, aged 85. Born in Rochdale in 1940, he worked in oils…
Israël Isaac Besançon dies at age 81
Israël Isaac Besançon, a French-Israeli rabbi and painter, died on September 6, 2026, at age 81. Born in Nice on December 27, 1944, Besançon developed an early interest in painting…
Barry Cleavin passes away at age 86
Barry Cleavin, a New Zealand printmaker and artist, died on September 6, 2026, aged 86. Born in Dunedin in 1939, he attended King’s High School before moving to Christchurch in…
Johan Mijail death at age 35
Johan Mijail, a Dominican writer, journalist and artist, died on September 6, 2026, aged 35. Born Johan Mijail Castillo Guillén in 1990 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, she was identified…
Andy Fish dead at age 60
Andy Fish, an American graphic novelist and educator, died on September 5, 2026, aged 60, following blood cancer. Born Andrew Tiberius Fish, he worked as a comic book artist, illustrator,…
Resil B. Mojares died at age 83
Resil B. Mojares, a Filipino author, historian and literary critic, died on September 5, 2026, aged 83. Born Resil Buagas Mojares on September 4, 1943, in Polanco, Zamboanga del Norte,…
Javad Mojabi died at age 86
Javad Mojabi, the Iranian poet and writer, died on September 4, 2026, at age 86. Born in Qazvin in 1939, he was among Iran’s prominent modern writers and poets and…
Death of Tahir Nikšić at age 76
Tahir Nikšić, a Bosnian actor and theatre artist, died on September 4, 2026, aged 76. Born in Mostar on June 12, 1950, he began his stage career at the National…
André Brasilier dies at age 96
André Brasilier, the French painter and lithographer, died on September 4, 2026, aged 96. Born in Saumur, France, on October 29, 1929, he built a career in painting and lithography.…
Shin’ichi Abe has died at age 76
Shin'ichi Abe, a Japanese mangaka and novelist, died on September 4, 2026, at age 76. Born in Tagawa, Fukuoka Prefecture, he became active from the 1970s and was known for…
Death of Tadeush Kasyanov at age 87
Tadeush Kasyanov, a Soviet and Russian martial artist and stunt coordinator, died on September 4, 2026, aged 87. Born in Moscow on November 14, 1938, he also worked as an…
Libor Balák has died at age 65
Libor Balák, the Czech painter and illustrator, died on September 2, 2026, aged 65. Born in Brno on February 10, 1961, he also worked as a draughtsman, comic-book artist and…
Chen Kuan-tai dead at age 80
Chen Kuan-tai, the Hong Kong actor, director and action choreographer known for films including The Chinese Boxer, Vengeance and Heroes Two, died on September 2, 2026, aged 80. Born in…
Obituary: Edith Barr, dead at age 90
Edith Barr, the Peruvian Creole singer known as the Flor Morena de la Canción Criolla, died on September 1, 2026, aged 90. Born Nora Edith Barr García in Lima on…
Obituary: Jonathan Meléndez, dead at age 38
Jonathan Meléndez, the Mexican keyboardist and composer known as Honas, died on September 1, 2026, aged 38. Born Jonathan Samuel Meléndez Ochoa in Mexico City, he helped found the synth-pop…
Geles Cabrera obituary: died at age 100
Geles Cabrera, the Mexican sculptor, died on September 1, 2026, aged 100. Born Geles Cabrera Alvarado in Mexico City on August 2, 1929, she built a career as a sculptor…
Jean-François Leroy passes away at age 69
Jean-François Leroy, the French journalist and photographer who directed Visa pour l'image, died on August 31, 2026, aged 69. Born in Paris on October 3, 1956, he helped found the…
Death of Jean-François Leroy at age 69
Jean-François Leroy, the French journalist and photographer who directed the Visa pour l’image festival from 1989, died on August 31, 2026, aged 69. Born in Paris on October 3, 1956,…
Jean-François Leroy passes away at age 69
Jean-François Leroy, the French journalist and photographer who directed the Visa pour l'image festival from 1989, died on August 31, 2026, aged 69. The identity record identifies him as a…
Bernard Szajner dies at 82
Bernard Szajner, the French visual artist and inventor of the laser harp, died on August 31, 2026, aged 82. Born in Grenoble on June 27, 1944, he worked as a…
Death of Gene Bertoncini at age 89
Gene Bertoncini, the American jazz guitarist born in New York City on April 6, 1937, died on August 29, 2026, aged 89. A native of New York, he grew up…
Helch passed away at age 34
Helch, the British graffiti artist known for his stylised capital lettering and widely seen HELCH tag, died on August 29, 2026, aged 34. Operating mainly in the United Kingdom, he…
Shu Takahashi passed away at age 96
Shu Takahashi, a Japanese painter, printmaker and sculptor, died on August 29, 2026, aged 96. Born in the Ashina district in 1930, he also worked as an art director and…
Obituary: Triona Holden, dead at age 66
Triona Holden, the British author, artist, journalist and former BBC presenter and correspondent, died on August 29, 2026, aged 66. Writing under the name Triona Palmer after her marriage, she…
Franco Fontana dies at 92
Franco Fontana, the Italian photographer known for his abstract colour landscapes, died on August 29, 2026, aged 92. Born in Modena on December 9, 1933, he began taking photographs in…
Kenneth Treister dead at age 96
Kenneth Treister, an American architect best known for the Holocaust Memorial he designed in Miami Beach, Florida, died on August 28, 2026, aged 96. A Fellow of the American Institute…
Grace Perreiah, died aged 89
Grace Perreiah, an American artist known for her serigraph prints, died on August 28, 2026, at age 89. Born Eleanor Grace Sievert in Los Angeles, she later became associated with…
Will Murray has died at age 73
Will Murray, an American novelist, journalist and comic book writer, died on August 28, 2026, aged 73. Born William Patrick Murray on April 28, 1953, he wrote fiction, short stories…
Filip Štojdl dies at 50
Filip Štojdl, a Czech bishop of the Pilsen diocese of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church and former CČSH clergyman, died on August 27, 2026, aged 50. He served as bishop of…
Death of David Thauberger at age 77
David Thauberger, a Canadian painter, died on August 27, 2026, at age 77. Born in Holdfast, Saskatchewan, he became known for paintings shaped by popular culture, postcard imagery, folk art…
Granville Straker passed away at age 86
Granville Straker, an American record producer and businessman, died on August 27, 2026, aged 86. Born in Saint Vincent in 1939, he moved to Brooklyn from Trinidad in 1959 and…
Death of Péter Nádas at age 83
Péter Nádas, the Hungarian writer, playwright and essayist best known for works including A Book of Memories, Parallel Stories and The End of a Family Story, died on August 26,…
Dolly Parton dies at age 80
Dolly Parton, the American singer and actress known for “Jolene” and 9 to 5, died on August 25, 2026, aged 80. Born Dolly Rebecca Parton in Pittman Center, Tennessee, she…
Sliman Mansour obituary: died at age 79
Sliman Mansour, the Palestinian painter, sculptor and author, died on August 24, 2026, aged 79. Also known as Suleiman or Suliman Mansour, he was born in 1947 in Birzeit and…
Jay Maisel dies at age 95
Jay Maisel, an American photographer, died on August 23, 2026, aged 95. Born in Brooklyn on January 18, 1931, he studied at Abraham Lincoln High School under Leon Friend before…
Tofig Bakikhanov dies at 95
Tofig Bakikhanov, the Azerbaijani composer and music educator, died on August 23, 2026, at age 95. Born Tofig Ahmed-agha oglu Bakikhanov in Baku on December 8, 1930, he came from…
Obituary: Fabrizio Plessi, dead at age 86
Fabrizio Plessi, the Italian installation artist known for work centered on water and other elemental materials, died on August 23, 2026, aged 86. Born in Reggio Emilia on April 3,…
Death of James Lew at age 73
James Lew, an American stuntman and actor, died on August 23, 2026, aged 73. Born James Jene Fae Lew in Escalon, California, he built a long career in film and…
Bun’yō Ishikawa dies at age 88
Bun'yō Ishikawa, the Japanese photographer and photojournalist, died on August 23, 2026, aged 88. Born in Chiba Prefecture on March 10, 1938, he covered the Vietnam War while stationed in…
Nick Bougas obituary: died at age 71
Nick Bougas, an American film director and illustrator, died on August 23, 2026, aged 71. Born Nicholas Bougas in Savannah, Georgia, he worked across film, illustration, record production, and screenwriting…