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Faith Ringgold, Frank Stella, Richard Serra, Audrey Flack, Yong Soon Min, and Lorraine O’Grady were some of the artists we lost in 2024. Among them were also Palestinian artists who were killed by Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. Below is the full list of artists, curators, writers, and art dealers we honored this year for their lasting contributions to our field.
Brent Sikkema
The American art dealer, co-owner of Manhattan’s contemporary art gallery Sikkema Jenkins & Company, was found dead in his Rio de Janeiro apartment residence in early January, reportedly killed by stabbing. A police investigation is ongoing. He was 75 years old.
Lisa Hunt
The beloved American printmaker and designer died on January 31 at age 55.
Fathi Ghaben
The Gazan self-taught painter who became a pioneer of post-Nakba visual arts died on February 25 at age 77 after Israeli authorities prohibited him from leaving the blockaded enclave to seek medical treatment.
Yong Soon Min
The Korean-American artist whose manipulated portraits grappled with Asian-American identity died on March 12 at the age of 70.
Mar Dixon
The United Kingdom-based social media master, known for her internet campaigns to connect individuals to art institutions, including the #AskACurator trend, died on March 16 at age 53.
Richard Serra
The famed American sculptor, whose large-scale steel works challenged conceptions of time and space, died on March 26 at age 85.
Dinh Q. Lê
The multi-media and installation artist, whose works contended with post-war Vietnam, died on April 6 at age 56.
Faith Ringgold
The celebrated multi-media artist and activist, known for story quilts that tackled social justice themes, died on April 13 at age 93.
Frank Stella
The trailblazing Abstract sculptor and painter, who defied any strict characterizations of his work, died on May 4 at age 87.
Steve Albini
The music producer and recording engineer, known for his work on Nirvana’s In Utero, died on May 7 at the age of 61.
Joe Zucker
The Chicago-born painter, who rejected the conventions of Abstract Expressionism and used materials like cotton balls in his works, died on May 15 at age 82.
Barbara Gladstone
The art dealer, whose namesake Manhattan gallery represents over 70 of the most celebrated contemporary artists and estates in the field, died in Paris after a brief illness on June 16 at age 89.
Chaim Peri
The Israeli gallerist and artist remembered for his devotion to visual arts and his gallery which displayed Palestinian and Bedouin artworks, died in Hamas captivity in June, according to the Israeli military, at the age of 79.
Anton Von Dalen
The artist, pigeon rearer, and self-appointed archivist of the East Village died in his home on June 25 at the age of 86 after almost six decades of devotion to the neighborhood.
Audrey Flack
The internationally acclaimed artist, one of the pioneering women of the Photorealist movement during the late 1960s, died in her East Hampton home on June 28 at age 93. Her 2021 podcast interview with Hyperallergic is available here.
Jacqueline de Jong
The Dutch painter, whose avant-garde feminist works gained popularity in recent years, died on July 2 at age 85.
June Leaf
The New York City-based artist, whose paintings and drawings reflected a curiosity of motion, died on July 1 at age 94.
Bill Viola
The California-based video artist, whose media installations and video portraits explored universal human experiences, died on July 12 in Long Beach at age 73.
Alex Janvier
The Indigenous abstract painter, who combined Denesuline imagery and other contemporary styles, died on July 10 at age 89.
Dereck Stafford Magnus
The artist, writer, and Baltimore Museum of Art guard, who was also a Hyperallergic contributor, died on July 7 at age 46.
David Anfam
The British curator and art historian, whose legacy includes a Mark Rothko catalog raisonné and writings on Clyfford Still, died on August 21 at age 69.
Rebecca Horn
The German artist, whose six decades of multi-media works aided in pioneering body expansion art, died on September 10 at age 80.
Richard Mayhew
The landscape painter, whose vibrant-colored abstract works examined identity and place, died on September 26 in Soquel, California at age 100.
Kerri Dick
The Chilkat master weaver, who practiced and taught traditional weaving, beading, and carving, died on October 9 at age 41.
Paul Lowe
The award-winning photojournalist, whose work shed light on world conflicts and reconciliation, was allegedly killed by his teenage son on October 15 at the age of 60.
Patricia Johanson
The environmental artist, whose work combined engineering and art to create large-scale public installations meant to protect ecosystems, died in New York on October 21 at age 84.
Mahasen Al-Khatib
The Palestinian digital illustrator, whose work depicted life in Gaza during Israel’s military bombardment, was reportedly killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Jabalia refugee camp on October 18. She was 32.
Sarah Cunningham
The British painter, whose abstract large-scale oil works rose in popularity in recent years, was found dead at the age of 31 after she was declared missing after entering a train station on November 2.
Sabina Khorramdel
The New York City-based Tajik artist, known for her intuitive painting and a seven-channel video art commissioned for the 60th Venice Biennale, was found dead on October 28 at the age of 33 in an apparent murder.
Frank Auerbach
The German-born artist who had fled to the United Kingdom to escape Nazi death camps, where his parents were killed, gained acclaim for his characteristic portraits and North London scenes. He died on November 11 in London at age 93.
Eunice Parsons
The Organ-based artist and educator, whose collage, printmaking, and painting influenced seven decades of artists in the Pacific Northwest, died on November 19 at age 108.
Anna Banana
The Canadian conceptual artist and zine maker, who used the symbol of a banana in her zines to spark social interaction and conversation about global trade, died on November 29 in British Columbia at age 84.
Nikki Giovanni
The poet, activist, and educator known as the “Princess of Black Poetry,” whose work reflected her role in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and ’70s, died on December 9 at age of 81.
Steven Englander
The longtime director of the former Lower East Side artist squat turned arts organization ABC No Rio, known for purchasing the nonprofit’s property for just a dollar amid eviction threats, died December 12 at age 63.
Lorraine O’Grady
The pathbreaking conceptual artist and critic, whose films, photographs, collages, and performances subverted hierarchies from a Black feminist perspective, died in New York City on December 13 at age 90.
Zilia Sánchez
The Cuban artist, whose “erotic topologies” melded abstraction with the female form, died on December 19 at age 98.
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