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January 1 -
Jan de Bie, 74, Dutch artist •
January 5 -
Kim Tschang-yeul, 91, French-Korean painter •
January 21 -
David McCabe, 80, British photographer •
January 22 -
Forrest Moses, 86, American painter •
January 24 •
Arik Brauer, 92, Austrian artist, co-founder of the
Vienna School of Fantastic Realism •
Barry Le Va, 79, American conceptual artist •
January 26 -
Cindy Nemser, 83, American art historian and art critic •
January 30 -
Bill Hammond, 74, New Zealand artist •
February 7 -
Luis Feito, 91, Spanish painter •
February 16 -
James Bishop, 93, American painter •
February 19 -
Arturo Di Modica, 80, Italian-born American sculptor (
Charging Bull) •
March 1 •
Sir Alan Bowness, 93, British art historian, art critic, and director of the
Tate Gallery (1980–1988) •
Toko Shinoda, 107, Japanese artist •
March 4 -
Barbara Ess, 73, American photographer •
March 7 -
Duggie Fields, 75–76, British artist •
March 18 •
Elsa Peretti, 80, jewelry designer and visual arts philanthropist •
Jean-Michel Sanejouand, 86, French sculptor •
March 28 -
Gianluigi Colalucci, 92, Italian conservator-restorer (
Restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes) •
April 4 -
Jean Dupuy, 95, French born American srtist •
April 20 -
Mary Beth Edelson, 88, American artist •
April 23 -
Hans Rasmus Astrup, 82, Norwegian businessman, art collector, and museum founder (
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art). •
April 25 -
William T. Wiley, 83, American interdisciplinary visual artist •
April 30 -
Eli Broad, 87, American businessman, art collector, philanthropist, and museum co-founder (
The Broad) •
May 4 -
Julião Sarmento, 72, Portuguese multimedia artist and painter •
May 5 -
Susanna Heller, 65, American and Canadian painter •
May 11 •
Richard Nonas, 85, American sculptor •
Riitta Vainionpää, 69, Swedish textile artist, (death announced on this date) •
May 19 -
Alain Kirili, 74, French American sculptor •
May 20 -
Ingvar Cronhammar, 73, Swedish-Danish sculptor៛ (
Elia) •
May 26 -
Roser Bru, 98, Spanish-born Chilean painter and engraver •
May 29 •
Dani Karavan, 90, Israeli sculptor (
Monument to the Negev Brigade) •
Judith Godwin, 91, American painter •
June 2 -
Jane Kaufman, 83, American artist •
June 7 -
Douglas S. Cramer, 89, American art collector •
June 10 -
Tomás Llorens Serra, 84, Spanish art historian and museologist, director of
IVAM (1986–1988),
MNCARS (1988–1990) and
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (1991–2005) •
June 16 •
Allen Midgette, 82,
Warhol superstar •
Mogens Møller, 86, Danish minimalist artist •
June 18 -
Gérard Fromanger, 81, French artist •
June 19 -
Arnold Odermatt, 96, Swiss photographer •
June 21 -
Diego Cortez, 74–75, American art curator (death announced on this date) •
June 23 -
Arturo Schwarz, 97, Italian art historian and writer •
July 12 -
Joseph Raffael, 88, American painter •
July 14 -
Christian Boltanski, 76, French sculptor, photographer, and painter •
July 26 -
Louise Fishman, 82, American painter •
July 27 -
Phillip King, 87, British sculptor •
July 28 •
Nancy Frankel, 92, American sculptor •
Ben Wagin, 91, German visual artist •
August 3 -
Yolanda López, 78, American painter and printmaker •
August 12 •
Stanislav Hanzík, 90, Czech sculptor •
K. Schippers, 84, Dutch poet and art critic •
August 19 -
Chuck Close, 81, American painter. •
August 23 •
Elizabeth Blackadder, 89, Scottish painter •
Yusuf Grillo, 86, Nigerian artist •
September 6 -
Billy Apple, 85, New Zealand artist •
September 28 -
Achille Pace, 98, Italian painter •
October 3 -
Lars Vilks, 75, Swedish visual artist, founder of
Ladonia •
October 12 -
Julie L. Green, 60, American artist •
October 14 -
Margo Leavin, 85, American art dealer •
October 16 -
Paul Blanca, 62, Dutch photographer •
October 18 -
Manuel Neri, 91, American sculptor •
October 20 -
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, 76, Australian
Yolngu painter •
October 22 -
Lía Bermúdez, 91, Venezuelan sculptor •
October 25 -
Patrick Reyntiens, 95, British stained glass artist •
October 29 •
Iran Darroudi, 85, Iranian artist •
Raoul Middleman, 86, American painter •
November 2 -
Bettina Grossman, 94, American artist •
November 12 -
Dave Hickey, 82, American art critic •
November 14 -
Etel Adnan, 96, American artist •
November 17 -
Jimmie Durham, 81, American sculptor and poet •
November 18 -
Mick Rock, 72, British photographer (death announced on this date) •
November 20 -
Carlo Maria Mariani, 90, Italian painter •
November 20 -
Rita Letendre, 93, Canadian painter •
November 21 -
Robert Bly, 94, American writer and critic •
November 28 •
Virgil Abloh, 41, American fashion designer and visual artist •
Guillermo Roux, 92, Argentinian painter •
December 2 -
Lawrence Weiner, 79, American Conceptual artist •
December 17 -
Eve Babitz, 78, American visual artist and author •
December 18 -
Lord Richard Rogers, 88, Italian-born British architect (
Centre Pompidou,
Lloyd's building,
Millennium Dome) •
December 25 -
Wayne Thiebaud, 101, American painter •
December 29 -
Sabin Weiss, 97, Swiss-French photographer ==References==