Artist of memorials to family memory and sprits exhibited at the 2011 Venice Biennale, the Fowler Museum in Los Angeles, Documenta Fifteen (2022) and the Ghetto Biennale, in Port au Prince

The sale of “The Singing Butler” at Sotheby’s in 2004, for a record price for a painting by a Scottish artist, caused a sensation and turned attention on Vettriano's critical and institutional neglect

Bochner was a pioneer of conceptual art, creating works rooted in information systems and decontextualised language

The painter was also a keen supporter of women artists

Robinson, one of the Pictures Generation artists, made brightly irreverent paintings; as a writer, he chronicled the New York scene for decades and coined the term “Zombie Formalism”

The death of Bazhanov, who founded institutions including the groundbreaking National Centre for Contemporary Art, follows that of two other leading figures of the Conceptualist movement

His championing of radiocarbon dating and other new scientific approaches demonstrated the untenability of the conventional explanation for cultural change

A champion of contemporary Indigenous artists, prolific creator across a range of media and relentless critic of dominant US ideology, Smith received institutional support and success late in life

Baer was equally renowned for her work in Minimalist abstraction and figurative painting

Following successful stints at museums in Virginia and on Florida’s Gulf Coast, De Groft’s career became mired in the Basquiat fakes fiasco

Lynch trained as a painter before becoming a successful film-maker and ultimately returning to visual art in recent decades

His work for brands such as Benetton sparked conversations about issues including the Aids crisis and anorexia

Garner's witty deviations in form, text and body addressed the consumerism and sameness plaguing US culture

Known for his bold, bright-hued paintings, prints and murals, Average was a pillar of Vancouver’s creative community

The late artist was actually quite sociable and had stopped producing "thick" paintings decades ago, says his only child

The Southern Baptist peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia, was a dedicated amateur portraitist and made a deep cultural impact when in office

Faith Ringgold, Frank Auerbach, Richard Serra, Barbara Gladstone and Lorraine O’Grady were among those who died this year

Sánchez, who fled Cuba and ultimately settled in Puerto Rico, only achieved widespread critical acclaim late in her career

O’Grady, who devoted herself to art in her early forties, spent the ensuing decades making incisive works that spanned photography, collage, performance and more

Warsaw-born RIBA gold medal winner, who became the professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, changed architectural understanding

The French-born London-based artist merged the once-siloed worlds of art and design to create inimitably intimate participatory experiences

Charismatic leader who steered the museum through a difficult period in the 1980s, and later became a university vice-chancellor

The headline-making director-general of Unesco, who clashed with Reagan and Thatcher, died recently at the age of 103

The German-born British painter, a leading figure in the School of London, produced some of the most enduring and perceptive observations of what it meant to be alive during his time

Kureshi decorated India’s public spaces with beautiful, provocative and socially engaged murals

Acclaimed photojournalist's teenage son charged with his murder on a popular hiking trail near Los Angeles

The former editor of Connaissance des Arts was a leading figure in the French art market

Boshier’s work was often critical of US politics and consumerism

Horn maintained a powerful drawing strand that supported her innovative conceptual sculpture practice around the human body in installations, performances and photographs

The artist Erin Lawlor recalls her time spent with the art historian, who wrote defining texts on artists such as Mark Rothko and offered critical support for the next generation