This page indexes the individual year in art pages; see also art periods. This list is exclusively for the visual arts; for music, see Timeline of musical events.
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2020s 2026 in art - Death of Molly Parkin, Daniel Pelletti, Hiroshi Nakamura, Beatriz González, Scott Adams, Alfred Grimm, Philip Leider, Valentino, Linda Kohen, Marian Goodman, Praski Vitti, Eric Cameron, Lorenza Trucchi, Dóra Maurer, Henrike Naumann, Roger von Gunten, Isaiah Zagar, Peter Stämpfli, Iris Cantor, Liliana Angulo Cortés, Ulysses Jenkins, Stephen Koch, Giancarlo Politi, Ioanna Papantoniou, Eugènia Balcells, Pockets Warhol, Pedro Friedeberg, Thaddeus Mosley, Umberto Allemandi, Jean-François Boclé, Calvin Tomkins, Pat Steir, Glen Baxter, Melvin Edwards, Mike Chaplin, Pearl Fryar, Thomas Zipp, Melchor Peredo, Gabor Szilasi, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, James Hayward, Randall Bourscheidt, Desmond Morris, Vuokko Nurmesniemi, George Herms. Georg Baselitz, Ben Morea, José María Cruz Novillo, Manuela Hoelterhoff, Bruno Bischofberger, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Valie Export, Harald Metzkes, Silvio Benedetto, Arleen Schloss, Tess Jaray, Alan Saret, Jay Milder, Julio Le Parc, Charles Hinman, Matthew Spender, John Loring, Duane Michals, David Hockney, Portchie, Danny Simmons, Wulf Herzogenrath, Yaacov Agam, Konstantin Khudyakov, Mustafa Monwar, Kurt Ard, Luisa Cunha, Edward Lucie-Smith, Pat Oliphant, Juan Carlos Distéfano, Milan Knížák, Betye Saar, Simone Forti, Jonathan Leo Fairbanks, Tomás Parra, Christian Bernard, Mary Heilmann, Yayoi Kusama, Jay Maisel, Franco Fontana, Helch, David Thauberger, Geles Cabrera, Brian Fallon, Lucien Smith, Aracy Amaral, Peter Max, Carlos Alonso 2025 in art - Death of La Chunga, Ed Askew, Peter Brandes, Elisabeth Haarr, Philippa Blair, Leo Segedin, Alastair MacKinven, Oliviero Toscani, David Lynch, George A. Tice, Jules Feiffer, Aaron De Groft, Jo Baer, Håkon Bleken, Renina Katz, Rutherford Chang, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Graham Nickson, Lim Tze Peng, Waldo Díaz-Balart, Satoru Abe, Walter Robinson, Mustafa Arruf, Kay Smith, Mel Bochner, Frankétienne, Ming Fay, Carol Sutton, Jack Vettriano, Fred Eversley, Peter Sedgley, Anita Huffington, Joe Goode, Asaf Lifshitz, Abdul Karim Al-Orrayed, Marcia Marcus, Max Kozloff, Luis Felipe Noé, Chuck Connelly, Elaine Wynn, Art Green, Guy Ullens, Ita Aber, Zurab Tsereteli, Peter Sarkisian, Suki Seokyeong Kang, Dara Birnbaum, Julia Alexander, Ana Pellicer, André Rouillé, Koyo Kouoh, William Luers, Yasunao Tone, Eva, Tor Kvarv, Sebastião Salgado, Claude Roussel, Alenka Kham Pičman, Bedřich Dlouhý, Hugo Zapata, Daniel Lelong, Graham Gund, Gunther Uecker, Henk van Os, Joel Shapiro, Leonard Lauder, Thornton Willis, Marcia Resnick, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Pat Williams, Peter Hutchinson, Brian Clarke, Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan, Hamiduzzaman Khan, David Adickes, Raymond Saunders, Lena Cronqvist, Robert Wilson, Amnon Barzel, Walter Swennen, Amalia Del Ponte, Humberto Calzada, Eduard Carbonell i Esteller, Esther Grether, Rosalyn Drexler, Robert Grosvenor, Norman Toynton, Agnes Gund, Bryan Kneale, Juraj Bartusz, Jørgen Leth, Takako Saito, Milton Esterow, Ken Jacobs, Frank Wimberley, Pepe Soho, Drew Struzan, Claes Hake, Ed Kerns, Zbyšek Sion, Jackie Ferrara, Mimmo Jodice, Koko Komégné, Allison Knowles, Elspeth King, Giorgio Forattini, Sasha Okun, Dorothy Vogel, Timothy App, Ronald Davis, Llyn Foulkes, Frank Gehry, Wolfgang Petrick, Martin Parr, Arthur L. Carter, Ceal Floyer, Janet Fish, Paul de Nooijer, Rosa von Praunheim, Oscar Allain, Ram V. Sutar, Robert Mnuchin, Sigmund Abeles, Anne Mdden Gathie Falk, Amos Poe, Margarete Palz, Walter Steding 2024 in art - Death of Hartmut Ritzerfeld, Alexis Smith, Kishin Shinoyama, Brent Sikkema, Robert Whitman, Carl Andre, Ricardo Pascale, Brian Griffin, Peter Golfinopoulos, Antonio Paolucci, Helga Paris, Melvin Way, Andrew Crispo, A. Ramachandran, Günter Brus, Aleš Lamr, Marc Pachter, Steve Paxton. Félix Aráuz, Iris Apfel, Pigcasso, Lucas Samaras, Akira Toriyama, Imogen Stuart, Robert Moskowitz. Richard Serra, Katsura Funakoshi, Marian Zazeela, Quisqueya Henríquez, Gaetano Pesce, Italo Rota, Ziraldo, Patti Astor, Trina Robbins, Faith Ringgold, Jean-Marie Haessle, Au Ho-nien, Zack Norman, Frank Stella, David Shapiro, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Katherine Porter, Joe Zucker, Roberta Marrero, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, John Boardman, Valery Chtak, Sanford L. Smith, Bertien van Manen, Jan van Munster, Ben Vautier, Lyons Brown Jr., Guy Warren, Barbara Gladstone, Sir John Boardman, Martin Mull, Audrey Flack, Jacqueline de Jong, Manuel Cargaleiro, June Leaf, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Thomas Hoepker, Bill Viola, André Juillard, Kasper König, Simon Verity, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Jaime Botín, Bill Beckley, David Anfam, Leonard Riggio, Ēvī Upeniece, Hans Danuser, Jacqueline Winsor, Derek Boshier, Rebecca Horn, Peter Klashorst, Mary McFadden, Fred Nall Hollis, James Magee, Norman Ackroyd, Eikoh Hosoe, Valentinas Antanavičius, Ivan Vukadinov, Richard Mayhew, Lillian Schwartz, Andrew Stahl, Patricia Johanson, Isabelle de Borchgrave, Robert C. Morgan, Gary Indiana, Paul Morrissey, Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin, Daniel Spoerri Frank Auerbach, David R. Prentice, Walter Dahn, Tom Forrestall, Eunice Parsons, Vojo Stanić, Cynthia Zukas, Breyten Breytenbach, Rafig Nasirov, Raghnall Ó Floinn, Lorraine O'Grady, Jodhaiya Bai Baiga, Juan Cárdenas, Rezki Zerarti, Yoshio Taniguchi, Roberto Esteban Chavez, Zilia Sánchez Domínguez, Kurt Laurenz Metzler, Alfredo Prior, Marie-Claude Beaud, Jocelyn Wildenstein, Pippa Garner 2023 in art - Death of Marilyn Stafford, Zhou Lingzhao, Lyuben Zidarov, Karim Bennani, Michael Snow, George S. Zimbel, Hans Belting, Nicola Zamboni, Alfred Leslie, Jesse Treviño, Ángela Gurría, Ans Westra, Mary Bauermeister, Camille Souter, Rafael Viñoly, Lou Stovall, Piero Gilardi, Ian Falconer, Phyllida Barlow, Francisco Rodón, Shamim Sikder, James Harithas, Vivan Sundaram, Myriam Ullens, Neal Boenzi, Ted Bonin, Al Jaffee, John Olsen, Eberhard Kornfeld, Ed Koren, Harold Riley, Ju Ming, Yvonne Jacquette, Frank Kozik, Kenneth Anger, Roy Lerner, Dorothy Knowles, Jorrit Tornquist, Ilya Kabakov, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Françoise Gilot, Graziano Origa, Cora Cohen, Khosrow Hassanzadeh, Jan Sierhuis, Joop Sanders, Ales Pushkin, Fazil Najafov, Rubén Martínez Bulnes, Tony Bennett, Jesse Lott, Oswaldo Viteri, Giorgio Di Genova, Didier Lourenço, David Le Batard, Konrad Klapheck, Jamie Reid, Brice Marden, Claude Picasso, Mario Costa, Lisa Lyon, Fernando Botero, Erwin Olaf, Park Seo-bo, Gastón Ugalde, Juanita McNeely, Eduardo Arranz-Bravo, Ida Applebroog, Robert Irwin, Gord Smith, Joe Tilson, Radcliffe Bailey, Rob Krier, Larry Fink, William Anastasi, Wolfgang Hollegha, Paul Dibble, Vera Molnár, Graziella Magherini, Richard Hunt, Giovanni Anselmo, Imroz, William Pope.L, Martha Diamond 2022 in art - Death of Craig Ruddy, Ricardo Bofill, Tova Berlinski, Alekos Fassianos, Hossein Valamanesh, Andrei Mudrea, James Bidgood, Dan Lacey, John Wesley, Carmen Herrera, John Scott, Dan Graham, Marino Golinelli, DeWain Valentine, Srihadi Soedarsono, Antonio Seguí, Nick Zedd, Conrad Janis, Albert Kresch, Budi Tek, Sven Lukin, Mira Calix, Ted Mooney, Patrick Demarchelier, Eleanor Munro, Donald Baechler, Jerry Uelsmann, Hermann Nitsch, Cynthia Plaster Caster, Lewis Stein, Marcus Leatherdale, Enoch Kelly Haney, Ron Galella, Suzi Gablik, Enrique Metinides, Knox Martin, Bob Neuwirth, Miss.Tic, David Datuna, Samella Lewis, Claude Rutault Christopher Pratt, Jacques Villeglé, Paula Rego, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Heidi Horten, Duncan Hannah, Juan Pablo Echeverri, Harvey Dinnerstein, Arnold Skolnick, Sam Gilliam, Margaret Keane, David Blackwood, Matt King, Lily Safra, Maya Attoun, Claes Oldenburg, Emilie Benes Brzezinski, Jennifer Bartlett, Mary Obering, Velichko Minekov, Issey Miyake, Natalia LL, Marta Palau Bosch, Dmitri Vrubel, Oliver Frey, Lily Renée, Charlie Finch, Jens Birkemose, Virginia Dwan, James Polshek, Jean-Luc Godard. Roxanne Lowit, Bill Hutson, Brigida Baltar, Billy Al Bengston, Grace Glueck, Harold Garde, Angus Trumble, Jüri Arrak, Jagoda Buić, Peter Schjeldahl, Rodney Graham, Laila Shawa, Pierre Soulages, Clark Murray, Nicholas Harding, Brian O'Doherty, Lee Bontecou, Hervé Télémaque, Tom Phillips, Ashley Bickerton, Larry Qualls, Ronald Sherr, Judith Lauand, Philip Pearlstein, Maya Widmaier-Picasso, Franz Gertsch, Dorothy Iannone, Arata Isozaki, Tony Vaccaro, Sven Lukin 2021 in art - Death of Jan de Bie, Kim Tschang-yeul, Arik Brauer, Barry Le Va, Forrest Moses, Cindy Nemser, Bill Hammond, Luis Feito, James Bishop, Arturo Di Modica, Alan Bowness, Toko Shinoda, Barbara Ess, Duggie Fields, Elsa Peretti, Jean-Michel Sanejouand, Gianluigi Colalucci, Jean Dupuy, Mary Beth Edelson, Hans Rasmus Astrup, William T. Wiley, Eli Broad, Julião Sarmento, Susanna Heller, Richard Nonas, Alain Kirili, Ingvar Cronhammar, Roser Bru, Dani Karavan, Judith Godwin, Jane Kaufman, Douglas S. Cramer, Tomás Llorens, Allen Midgette, Mogens Møller, Gérard Fromanger, Arnold Odermatt, Diego Cortez, Arturo Schwarz, Joseph Raffael, Christian Boltanski, Louise Fishman, Phillip King, Nancy Frankel, Ben Wagin, Yolanda López, Stanislav Hanzík, K. Schippers, Chuck Close, Yusuf Grillo, Billy Apple, Sylvano Bussotti, Achille Pace, Lars Vilks, Julie L. Green, Margo Leavin, Paul Blanca, Manuel Neri, Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, Lía Bermúdez, Patrick Reyntiens, Iran Darroudi, Raoul Middleman, Bettina Grossman, Dave Hickey, Etel Adnan, Jimmie Durham, Mick Rock, Carlo Maria Mariani, Rita Letendre, Robert Bly, Virgil Abloh, Guillermo Roux, Lawrence Weiner, Eve Babitz, Richard Rogers, Wayne Thiebaud, Sabine Weiss 2020 in art - Death of John Baldessari, Akbar Padamsee, André Lufwa, Oswald Oberhuber, James Mollison, Hester Diamond, Jason Polan. Beverly Pepper, Anne Windfohr Marion, Jack Youngerman, Peter Dreher, Ulay, John Seward Johnson II, Wolf Kahn, Paul Kasmin, Maurice Berger, Idelle Weber, Dr. Evermor, Anne Hendricks Bass, David Driskell, Alexander Thynn, Helene Aylon, Daniel Greene, Mort Drucker, Gillian Wise, William H. Bailey, Glenna Goodacre, Markus Raetz, Peter Beard, Tina Girouard, Zarina, Germano Celant, Michael McClure, Iepe Rubingh, Cliff Eyland, Susan Rothenberg, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Emma Amos, Peter Alexander, Gracia Barrios, Christo, Manuel Felguérez, Luther Price, Anna Blume, Milton Glaser, Benedetto Robazza, Frank Popper, George Simon, Brigid Berlin, Keith Sonnier, Lotty Rosenfeld, Miodrag Živković, Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara, Frank Wright, William Arnett, Luchita Hurtado, Pierre-Yves Trémois, Fern Cunningham, Ron Gorchov, Mrinal Haque, Pedro de Oraá, Douglas MacDiarmid, Siah Armajani, Jürgen Schadeberg, Philippe Daverio, Pierre Nahon, Franco Maria Ricci, Donald Kendall, Robert Bechtle, Kenzo Takada, Geoffrey Dyer, Jean Cardot, Chris Killip, David Geiser, Lea Vergine, Diane Di Prima, Mohammed Melehi, Sindika Dokolo, Piero Simondo, Aldo Tambellini, Sheldon Solow, Daniel Cordier, Helen LaFrance, Suh Se-ok, Jackie Saccoccio, James Havard, Barbara Rose, David Medalla
2010s