Obituaries
Brice Marden, painter revered for his distinctive approach to abstraction, has died, aged 84
Marden rose to prominence in the 1960s and 70s, synthesizing elements of Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, Minimalism and more into his own unique idiom
Jamie Reid, graphic designer who defined the visual character of the punk movement, has died aged 76
The artist's subversive collage work for the Sex Pistols' single 'God Save The Queen' was a defining image of 1970s protest
Joop Sanders, early member of Abstract Expressionist movement, has died, aged 101
An influential figure in the New York scene of the early 1950s, Sanders spent the latter half of the decade in Europe and consequently was often left out of narratives of the AbEx movement
The Australian art world pays tribute to Tim Klingender, an expert on Aboriginal art, who has died aged 59
Klingender’s body was found in the sea after an apparent boating accident
Ales Pushkin, nonconformist artist and activist, has died, aged 57
The dissident Belarusian artist, who once dumped manure in front of Alexander Lukashenko's office, died in prison under "unclear circumstances"
Françoise Gilot, artist whose prolific career transcended early relationship with Picasso, has died, aged 101
Gilot, whose distinctive figurative paintings span eight decades, infamously dumped the famous Spanish artist
Remembering Vivan Sundaram, one of India’s leading artists and a champion of the country’s post-independence visual culture
Grounded in the political activism of the 1960s, he wove cultural history, social biography and labour politics into monumental installation art
'The real departure will occur on its own, in its own time': pioneering artist Ilya Kabakov has died, aged 89
The chronicler of life in the Soviet Union was known for his "total installations", including a devastated room in a Communist apartment
Thomas Kong, who transformed a Chicago convenience store into an art environment, has died
Beloved in Chicago, the artist worked in a small corner shop that doubled as his studio
India’s ‘first installation artist’ Vivan Sundaram has died, aged 79
Multi-disciplinary practitioner was inspired by the 1968 Paris demonstrations to organise artist and student group protests during Indira Gandhi's Emergency rule of 1975-77
Remembering Phyllida Barlow, one of the most significant, and original, British artists of recent years
The sculptor, erudite and irreverent, was known for the power and scale of her site-specific installations
Phyllida Barlow—British sculptor who found global fame after retiring from teaching—has died, aged 78
Artist who taught Rachel Whiteread and Tacita Dean during a decades-long career at London's Slade School of Art, won critical recognition in her mid-sixties for her massive, site-specific installations
Remembering Norman Dilworth, a champion of Concrete Art, who has died, aged 92
The Wigan-born sculptor became attuned to the modern movement in Europe after making his name with construction-based reliefs and sculptures in Britain
Anthony Green—whose wife Mary was the muse for a unique set of narrative paintings—has died, aged 83
Nearly all his more than 600 irregularly-shaped canvases capture aspects of six decades of married life
'Godmother of Miami's art scene', Mira Lehr, has died aged 88
Lehr was the co-founder of the Continuum women's art collective and used her art to address the challenges of global warming and rising sea levels
Alfred Leslie, rising star of Abstract Expressionism who embraced figuration, has died, aged 95
After rising to prominence in New York’s AbEx scene of the 1950s, Leslie devoted much of his career to honing a style of monumental figuration that was decades ahead of its time
'A south London version of the fabled homunculus': Norman Rosenthal remembers the multi-talented artist Tom Phillips
In a six-decade career, the British artist also composed and performed music, published books and was an expert on African art
Michael Snow, avant-garde film-maker and sculptor, has died aged 94
The witty Canadian polymath caused a sensation with his 1967 underground film "Wavelength" and enjoyed public dispute over his city sculptures
Influential Düsseldorf dealer Hans Mayer—the first to show Warhol in Germany—dies aged 82
The gallerist is credited with introducing European audiences to post-war US artists
Ronald Feldman, art dealer who ‘championed big ideas’, has died, aged 84
Feldman, an early supporter of artists like Joseph Beuys and Chris Burden, opened his gallery in 1971 and quickly established himself as a gallerist willing to take risks
Football legend Pelé, a muse for Warhol and street art icon, has died aged 82
Martin Parr and Juergen Teller are among the artists who captured the Brazilian star's gift for friendship and personal diplomacy
The artist Dorothy Iannone, hailed as a ‘freedom fighter’, dies aged 89
She confronted censorship issues including a legal battle over Henry Miller novel
Remembering Elizabeth II—a master of the art of monarchy—and the artists, historians, designers, gallerists, and critics who died in 2022
The artists Paula Rego and Sam Gilliam, the gallerist Virginia Dwan, the critic Peter Schjeldahl and the patron of the arts John Sainsbury were among the other influential figures lost to the art world this year
Maya Picasso, daughter of artist Pablo and important archivist of her father's legacy, has died, aged 87
Her relationship with her father is the subject of an ongoing exhibition at the Picasso Museum in Paris
Philip Pearlstein, whose nude portraits helped revive figurative painting, has died, aged 98
Pearlstein, a classmate of Andy Warhol’s who similarly worked against the grain of the dominant Abstract Expressionist style of the time, remained committed to representation from the late 1950s onward
Artist Ashley Bickerton, who imagined new ways to lampoon and critique consumerism, has died, aged 63
The Indonesia-based artist, who rose to prominence in New York in the 1980s alongside Jeff Koons and Peter Halley, was diagnosed with ALS last year
British artist-polymath Tom Phillips—portrait painter, composer and poet—has died, aged 85
Phillips's masterpiece is A Humument, a 50-year recreation, redrawing and rewriting of a long-forgotten Victorian novel, that informed the artist's wider output, including an opera and his translation of Dante's Inferno
Dagny Corcoran, an influential art book dealer in Los Angeles, has died, aged 77
Her bookstore Art Catalogues, which she founded in 1977 and is still in operation, has long been a gathering place for the Los Angeles art community
Lee Bontecou—artist known for haunting, ominous wall sculptures made from industrial materials—has died, aged 91
The artist, who rose to prominence in the New York art scene of the 1970s, remained committed to an unclassifiable and otherworldly aesthetic
In memoriam: London art dealer and restaurateur Andrew Edmunds represented a special and vivid chapter in Soho’s history
The world expert on the prints of William Hogarth, James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson was a great and colourful character