Cris Derksen, a Canadian Cree cellist and composer, died on May 16, 2026, in a traffic collision. She was 45. Derksen was a Juno Award-nominated musician from Northern Alberta, Canada, known for blending classical music with traditional Indigenous music in…
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 came from a family of artists of Italian origin. In 1956, at 18, he…
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 the Lisbon Higher School of Fine Arts in 1951. He…
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 provocative public performances and expanded cinema. Her practice also extended…
David Kahler, an American architect and photographer, died on May 14, 2026, at age 89. Kahler led the Milwaukee-based firm Kahler Slater for much of his career. His work included the Golda Meir Library at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in…
Nikolay Tsaturyan, an Armenian theatre director, died on May 14, 2026, at the age of 81. Tsaturyan was also an actor and playwright and was named a People's Artist of Armenia in 2011. He served as Artistic Director of the…
Noel Galea Bason died on May 14, 2026. He was a Maltese medalist and sculptor.
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 of Civil Engineering and worked on construction sites and in… · 26 September 2018 · September 2018 · September 26 · Journalists
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 including Milana, U Turn and Mahanadi. Raj made his film…
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 known on screen for his role as Moff Jerjerrod in…
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 and printmaking, with work focused on abstracted mixed-media and minimalism.…
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 on Oct. 9, 1927, he was also noted for his…
David Plowden, an American photographer, died on May 4, 2026, at age 93. He was known for historical documentary photography of urban cities, steam trains, American farmlands and small towns. Born in Boston on October 9, 1932, he grew up…
José María Cruz Novillo, the Spanish painter, designer and sculptor known for his logos, died on May 2, 2026, at the age of 89. Born in Cuenca in 1936, he began painting in his native town in 1950 and moved…
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 and discovered painting while incarcerated and in drug rehabilitation. In…
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 directed The Griffyn Ensemble in the early 2000s, serving as…
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 graphic artist. He became known in the 1960s for figurative,…
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 studied painting under Raffi Lavie while living at Kibbutz Kfar…
Carla Van Zon, a New Zealand artistic director, died on April 29, 2026, aged 74. She worked on international opportunities for New Zealand artists at Creative New Zealand before becoming artistic director of the New Zealand International Festival of the…
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 later joined the staff of The Statesman in New Delhi.…
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 Tom Puss and Panda. Born in The Hague on April…
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 rock band active from 1990 to 1997. The band was…
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 was best known for creating assemblages from discarded, often rusty,…
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 gallery in 1981 and became known for supporting young artists.…
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, he served in the Army Signal Corps and worked as…
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 graphic designer before starting a comics blog in 2010. He…
Dean Tavoularis, the American production designer known for The Godfather, Apocalypse Now and Bonnie and Clyde, died on April 22, 2026, at age 93. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on May 18, 1932, he grew up in Los Angeles and studied…
Mijo Kovačić, a Croatian painter and naïve artist, died on April 22, 2026, at the age of 89. Born on 5 August 1935 in Gornja Šuma, Molve, in Croatia’s Podravina region, he spent his childhood painting and looking after the…
Pavel Matuška died on April 21, 2026. He was a Czech painter, cartoonist and humorist. His work was associated with painting, cartooning and humor.
Moogie Canazio, a Brazilian recording engineer, mixing engineer and record producer, died on April 21, 2026, at age 70. Born Antonio Canazio in Rio de Janeiro, he worked with artists including Antônio Carlos Jobim, Caetano Veloso, Ivan Lins, João Gilberto,…
Wayne Moss, an American session guitarist and songwriter, died on April 20, 2026, at the age of 88. Born on February 9, 1938, in Charleston, West Virginia, he was best known for his session work in Nashville. Moss moved to…
Vladimir Shinkaryov died on April 19, 2026. He was a Russian artist, painter, and writer. His death was reported without additional details. Shinkaryov's work spanned visual art and writing.
Desmond Morris, English zoologist, ethnologist and surrealist painter, died on April 19, 2026, at the age of 98. Born Desmond John Morris in Purton, Wiltshire, on January 24, 1928, he was also a popular author in human sociobiology. He is…
Dean Schwarz, an American ceramic artist, died on April 18, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on February 5, 1938, he was also a painter, historian, writer, publisher and teacher. Schwarz co-founded the South Bear…
James Hayward, an American abstract painter, died on April 16, 2026. He was 82. Born in 1943 in San Francisco, California, Hayward was known for paintings divided into two bodies of work: flat paintings, made from 1975 to 1984, and…
Craig Krampf, an American drummer, died on April 16, 2026, at age 80. Born in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, on August 25, 1945, he worked as a drummer, percussionist, arranger, record producer and songwriter from 1971 to 2026. Most of his notable…
Taylor Kirk, a Canadian musician best known for his work with Timber Timbre, died on April 14, 2026. He was 44. Kirk was the featured artist in Timber Timbre, a Canadian band whose name refers to early recordings made in…
Sophie Flamand, a Belgian writer and journalist, died on April 14, 2026, at the age of 61. Born in Liège on November 6, 1964, she studied at the Université libre de Bruxelles and later became deputy director of the cultural…
Gheorghe Urschi, a Moldovan actor, director and comedian, died on April 13, 2026, after complications from a stroke. He was active for more than 40 years and worked in film and theater from the 1970s through 2011. Born on January… · 13 April 2026 · April 2026
Margret Nikolova, a Bulgarian pop singer, died on April 13, 2026, at the age of 97. Born in Sofia on October 10, 1928, she was active from 1948 to 2000 and performed pop, romance, and ballad songs. She was awarded…
Frank Stack, an American cartoonist, died on April 12, 2026, at the age of 88. Born Frank Huntington Stack in Houston, Texas, he was an underground cartoonist and artist who worked under the name Foolbert Sturgeon to avoid persecution for…
Edgardo Roque, a Filipino Olympic basketball player, died on April 12, 2026, at age 88. Born on February 11, 1938, in Obando, Bulacan, in the Philippine Commonwealth, he competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics. Roque also made six Philippine national… · 12 April 2026 · April 2026
Amivi Homawoo, a Togolese visual artist and videographer, died on April 11, 2026. Born Améyovi Akpéyédjé Homawoo in Lomé on April 5, 1975, she studied in Togo, Ivory Coast, Benin and Ghana before graduating from the Institut français du Togo…
May Angeli, a French artist and author, died on April 11, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Clichy, France, on August 8, 1937, she graduated from the École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art and…
Flo Oy Wong, an American artist, curator and educator, died on April 11, 2026, at age 87. Born in Oakland, California, on October 28, 1938, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of California, Berkeley, in…
Jacques Witt, a French journalist and photographer who worked for Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace and Sipa Press, died on April 11, 2026. Born in Strasbourg in 1958, he earned his baccalauréat from the Lycée Kléber before joining Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace in…
Mike Westbrook, the English jazz pianist and composer, died on April 11, 2026, at the age of 90. Born Michael John David Westbrook in High Wycombe in 1936 and raised in Torquay, he studied painting in Plymouth after a spell… · 11 April 2026 · April 2026
Mike Westbrook, the English jazz pianist and composer, died on April 11, 2026, at the age of 90. Born Michael John David Westbrook in High Wycombe in 1936 and raised in Torquay, he studied painting in Plymouth after a spell…
Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, an American painter, died on April 10, 2026. Born in New York City in 1979, she received a BFA from Bard College in 2007 and was based in Los Angeles. She began exhibiting in 2007, including collaborations with…
Aldwyth, an American artist known for complex collages and assemblages made from found materials, died on April 10, 2026. She was 90. Born Mary Aldwyth Dickman in Pomona, California, on November 21, 1935, she studied painting at American University in…
Gabor Szilasi, a Canadian photographer, died on April 10, 2026, at the age of 98. Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1928, he became known for the humanist vision of his social-documentary photography. He first became interested in photography while in… · 10 April 2026 · April 2026 · Gábor
Melchor Peredo, a Mexican muralist, died on April 8, 2026, at the age of 99. Born Oscar Melchor Peredo in Mexico City on January 6, 1927, he was a representative of the social realist school of mural painting in Mexico.… · 08 April 2026 · April 2026
Doug Allan, the Scottish wildlife photographer and cameraman, died on April 8, 2026, aged 74–75. Known for his work in polar regions and underwater, he was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, one of twin brothers, and was the son of a… · 08 April 2026 · April 2026
Gerd Winner, a German painter and sculptor, died on April 8, 2026, at the age of 89. Born in Braunschweig in 1936, he graduated from the Berlin University of the Arts. He was known for large-format public artworks and often…
Vladislav Galgonek died on April 6, 2026. He was a Czech photographer. · 06 April 2026 · April 2026
Jacques-Armand Cardon, the French cartoonist and illustrator, died on April 5, 2026, at the age of 89. Born in Le Havre on November 30, 1936, he spent his youth in Brittany and survived there through World War II. He later… · 05 April 2026 · April 2026
Simon Oxley, a British graphic designer, died on April 4, 2026. He was 56. Born in Kingsclere, Hampshire, England, in 1969, Oxley worked as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator from 1989 to 2026, operating predominantly under the studio pseudonym…
Jiří Zikmund died on April 3, 2026. · Czechia · 03 April 2026 · April 2026
Thomas Zipp, a German artist, died on April 3, 2026. · 03 April 2026 · April 2026
Pearl Fryar, an American topiary artist, died April 3, 2026. · 03 April 2026 · April 2026
Bettina Cirone, an American photographer and former Ford model, died on April 3, 2026, at age 92. Cirone was known for photographing celebrities, including actors, musicians, artists and politicians, among them President Donald Trump, in the United States and abroad… · 03 April 2026 · April 2026
Jason Elvie Go Ty, a Filipino drag performer and graphic designer known by the stage name Misua, died on April 2, 2026, at the age of 27. He was best known for his involvement in the fourth season of Drag… · 02 April 2026 · April 2026
Mike Chaplin died on April 1, 2026. He was a British artist and died of mesothelioma. · 01 April 2026 · April 2026
Dalia Nausheen, a Bangladeshi Nazrul Sangeet singer, died on April 1, 2026, of cancer. Born in 1954 or 1955, she was among the artists who participated in the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. In… · 01 April 2026 · April 2026
Melvin Edwards, an American sculptor, died on March 30, 2026, at age 88. Melvin Eugene Edwards Jr. was an American abstract sculptor, printmaker, and arts educator. Raised in segregated communities in Texas and an integrated community in Ohio, he moved… · 30 March 2026 · March 2026
Sergi Mas Balaguer, a Spanish-born Andorran sculptor and cultural activist, died on March 30, 2026. Born in Barcelona on October 30, 1930, into a family of craftsmen, he studied at the Escola d'Arts i Oficis de la Llotja in Barcelona.…
Glen Baxter, the English artist and draughtsman known for his absurdist drawings, died on March 29, 2026. He was 82. Born in Leeds on March 4, 1944, Baxter trained at Leeds College of Art from 1960 to 1965 and taught… · 29 March 2026 · March 2026 · Cancer
Gino Agnese, the Italian journalist, biographer and essayist, died on March 27, 2026, in Rome, at the age of 90. Born in Naples on March 10, 1936, he served as president of the Rome Quadriennale from 2002 to 2011. He… · 27 March 2026 · March 2026
Jon Dee Graham, an American musician, guitarist and songwriter, died on March 27, 2026. Based in Austin, Texas, he was active from 1986 to 2026 and performed with The Skunks and the True Believers. He was named Austin Musician of… · 27 March 2026 · March 2026
Orlando Wiet, a Surinamese-Dutch mixed martial artist, died on March 26, 2026, at the age of 60. Born in Paramaribo, then in Dutch Guiana, on October 24, 1965, he was a world champion kickboxer, boxer and mixed martial artist. Wiet’s… · Thailand · 26 March 2026 · March 2026
Alexander Kluge, the German author, film director, academic and founder of a television production company, died on March 25, 2026, at the age of 94. Born in Halberstadt in 1932, he studied with Theodor W. Adorno in Frankfurt and later… · 25 March 2026 · March 2026
Pat Steir, an American painter and printmaker, died on March 25, 2026, at age 87. Born Iris Patricia Sukoneck in Newark, New Jersey, she was known for work loosely associated with conceptual art and minimalism early in her career. She… · 25 March 2026 · March 2026
Esteri Tebandeke, a Ugandan filmmaker, actress and visual artist, died on March 24, 2026. Born Esther Brenda Apolot in Kampala on May 16, 1984, she was also a dancer and a graduate of the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and… · 24 March 2026 · March 2026
Sean Stevens, an American artist and inventor, died in Invalid Date. He was known for his involvement in the 2007 Boston Mooninite panic and for creating Sustainable Sound, a pedal-powered sound system. In January 2007, Stevens, then living in Charlestown,…
Hermann Huppen, the Belgian comic book creator known for Jeremiah, died on March 22, 2026, at the age of 87. Better known by the pen name Hermann, he was born on July 17, 1938, in Bévercé, now part of Malmedy,… · 22 March 2026 · March 2026
Daphne Selfe, a British model, died on March 20, 2026. From Edmonton, London, she worked for more than 70 years and was recognised by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest professional model. Selfe continued working into her 90s and,… · 20 March 2026 · March 2026
Steve Houben, a Belgian jazz saxophonist and flutist, died on March 20, 2026. Born in Liège, Belgium, on March 19, 1950, he attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston in the mid-1970s. After returning to Belgium, he established the… · 20 March 2026 · March 2026
Agosto Machado, an American performance artist, died on March 20, 2026. He was a performance and visual artist, activist, and archivist who became a major figure in the New York City downtown arts scene beginning in the 1960s. Machado was… · Portugal · China · 20 March 2026 · March 2026
Nicholas Brendon Schultz, the American actor, artist and writer best known for his roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Criminal Minds, died on March 20, 2026. He was 54. Born in Los Angeles, California, on April 12, 1971, Schultz… · 20 March 2026 · March 2026
Chuck Norris, the American martial artist, actor and author known for Walker, Texas Ranger, Missing in Action and The Way of the Dragon, died on March 19, 2026, at the age of 86. Born Carlos Ray Norris on March 10,… · Brazil · 19 March 2026 · March 2026
Terry Cox, a British drummer best known for his work with Pentangle and The Humblebums, died on March 19, 2026, at the age of 89. Born Terence William Harvey Cox on March 13, 1937, in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, he… · 19 March 2026 · March 2026
Kevin Sampson, an American artist and police detective-composite sketch artist, died on March 18, 2026, in Newark, New Jersey, at age 71. Born Kevin Blythe Sampson in Elizabeth, New Jersey, he lived in Newark and worked from a studio there.… · 18 March 2026 · March 2026
John Coley, a New Zealand painter and art critic, died on March 17, 2026, aged 91. John William Coley MBE was born in Palmerston North on 28 January 1935. He attended Palmerston North Boys’ High School and took evening art… · 17 March 2026 · March 2026
Ove Pihl, a Swedish painter and art director, died on March 17, 2026. He was also a Swedish art director, book publisher and graphic designer, and was best known as the founder of the advertising agency Falk & Pihl and… · 17 March 2026 · March 2026
Wayne Perkins, an American guitarist, died on March 15, 2026. Perkins, whose full name was David Wayne Perkins, was a rock and R&B guitarist, singer, songwriter and session musician born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1951. He taught himself to play… · 15 March 2026 · March 2026 · Stroke
Sam Kieth, an American comic book artist and writer best known for The Maxx and Zero Girl, died on March 15, 2026, at age 63 of complications from Lewy body dementia. Born in Sacramento, California, on January 11, 1963, he… · 15 March 2026 · March 2026
Len Deighton, the British author best known for his spy novels, died on March 15, 2026, at the age of 97. Born Leonard Cyril Deighton in Marylebone, London, on February 18, 1929, he also wrote cookery books and works on… · 15 March 2026 · March 2026
Lyudmila Arinina, the Russian actress, died on March 14, 2026, at the age of 99. Born Lyudmila Mikhailovna Arinina on November 8, 1926, in Sinodskoye Village, Saratov Oblast, she graduated from the acting department of GITIS in 1948 and began… · 14 March 2026 · March 2026
Patrice Jeener, a French artist and copper engraver who specialised in work of a mathematical nature, died on March 13, 2026. Born on July 31, 1944, he studied at the Lycée Janson de Sailly and later, in 1963, at the… · 13 March 2026 · March 2026
Lloyd Jones, the Welsh novelist, died on March 13, 2026, at the age of 74. He was also a poet and photographer. Born at Bryn Clochydd, Gwytherin, near Llanrwst, he lived at Abergwyngregyn. Jones had worked on a farm, as… · 13 March 2026 · March 2026
Hjálmar H. Ragnarsson, an Icelandic composer, died on March 13, 2026, at the age of 73. He was also a music theorist, rector and pianist, and was considered among the leading Icelandic composers of his generation. Ragnarsson contributed to Icelandic… · 13 March 2026 · March 2026
Holograf, the Romanian pop rock band from Bucharest, died on March 12, 2026. Formed in 1978, the band released 18 albums and became known for songs including "Banii vorbesc," "Dincolo de nori," "Ți-am dat un inel," "Undeva departe," "Să nu-mi… · 12 March 2026 · March 2026
Margareta Magnusson, a Swedish painter and essayist, died on March 12, 2026, in Gothenburg, Sweden, at the age of 91. Born Margareta Elisabeth Bothén in Gothenburg on December 31, 1934, she studied at Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm and… · 12 March 2026 · March 2026 · Magnússon
Jean-François Boclé, a French artist and Martinican artist, died on March 11, 2026, at the age of 54. Born in 1971 in Fort-de-France, Martinique, he spent his childhood years in Saint-Esprit before moving to Paris at 15, where he lived… · 11 March 2026 · March 2026
Michael Hague, an American illustrator known for his work on children's fantasy books, died on March 10, 2026, at age 77. Born in Los Angeles on September 8, 1948, he illustrated classics including The Wind in the Willows, The Wizard… · 10 March 2026 · March 2026
Luc Giard, a Canadian cartoonist and artist, died on March 9, 2026. Born in 1956 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada, he was an underground cartoonist and artist known for his bold, intense drawings of fat Tintin reproductions, nudes, cars and portraits.… · 09 March 2026 · March 2026
Ernie Mills, an American decoy maker, died on March 8, 2026. Ernest Leon Mills Jr. was a third-generation duck decoy maker who made Lower Chesapeake-style decoys. Nationally recognized as a folk artist, he created traditional working decoys that are held… · 08 March 2026 · March 2026
Mantana Morakul, the Thai singer and actress known as Mantana Keartiwongs, died on March 8, 2026, at the age of 102. Born on March 30, 1923, she was the first female singer and the oldest member of the Public Relations… · 08 March 2026 · March 2026