2024 in art

Significant events relating to the year 2024 in art are listed below.

• January 24 – South Korea's Ministry of Unification confirms that the Arch of Reunification, a sculptural arch near Pyongyang, North Korea, has been demolished.^[1]
• March 20 – Opening of the 81st Whitney Biennial in New York City, United States, lasting until August 11, 2024.^[2]
• April 20 – Opening of the 60th Venice Biennale, lasting until November 2024.^[3]
• April 21 – A statue of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, by Hywel Pratley, is unveiled in Oakham, Rutland, UK.^[4]
• May 16 – A statue of Billy Graham, by Chas Fagan, is erected at the United States Capitol, in Washington, D.C.^[5]
• May 25 – Opening of an exhibition of portraits of "Windrush generation", commissioned by King Charles III of the United Kingdom.^[6]
• June 4 – David Voss, alleged ringleader of Canada's biggest art fraud, pleads guilty to his involvement in the forgery of works by Norval Morrisseau.^[7]

• Alison Saar – "The Salon" (sculpture), Olympic sculpture commissioned for the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France.^[8]

• January 1 – Hartmut Ritzerfeld, German neo-Expressive painter (born 1950)^[9]
• January 2 – Alexis Smith, American collage artist (born 1949)^[10]
• January 4 – Kishin Shinoyama, Japanese photographer (born 1940)^[11]
• January 15 – Brent Sikkema, American art dealer (born 1948)^[12]
• January 19 – Robert Whitman, American performance artist (born 1935)^[13]
• January 19 – Carl Andre, American minimalist artist (born 1935)^[14]
• January 26 – Ricardo Pascale, Uruguayan sculptor (born 1942)^[15]
• January 27 – Brian Griffin, British photographer (born 1948)^[16]
• February 4
  • Antonio Paolucci, Italian art historian and curator (born 1939)^[17]
  • Melvin Way, American folk artist (born 1954)^[18]
• February 5 – Helga Paris, German photographer (born 1938)^[19]
• February 8 – Andrew Crispo, American gallerist (born 1945)^[20]
• February 10
  • Günter Brus, Austrian painter, performance artist, graphic artist and filmmaker (born 1938)^[21]
  • A. Ramachandran, Indian painter (born 1935)^[22]
• February 16 – Aleš Lamr, Czech visual artist (born 1943)^[23]
• February 17 – Marc Pachter, American art curator (born 1943)^[24]
• February 28 – Félix Aráuz, Ecuadorian painter (born 1935)^[25]
• March 1
  • Iris Apfel, American designer (born 1921)^[26]
  • Chance Browne, American cartoonist (born 1948)^[27]
  • Ennio Calabria, Italian painter and illustrator (born 1937)^[28]
  • Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist (subdural hematoma; born 1955)^[29]
• March 6 (death announced) – Pigcasso, painting pig (born 2016)^[30]
• March 7 – Lucas Samaras, Greek-born American photographer, sculptor and painter (born 1936)^[31]
• March 24
  • Robert Moskowitz, American painter (born 1935)^[32]
  • Imogen Stuart, German-Irish sculptor (born 1927)^[33]
• March 26 – Richard Serra, American sculptor (born 1938)^[34]
• March 28 – Marian Zazeela, American light artist, designer, calligrapher and painter (born 1940)^[35]
• March 29 – Katsura Funakoshi, Japanese sculptor (born 1951)^[36]
• March 30 – Quisqueya Henríquez, Cuban-born Dominican multidisciplinary contemporary artist (born 1951)^[37]
• April 3 – Gaetano Pesce, Italian architect and designer (born 1939)^[38]
• April 6
  • Italo Rota, Italian architect and curator (born 1953)^[39]
  • Ziraldo, Brazilian author, cartoonist and painter (born 1932)^[40][41]
• April 9 – Patti Astor, underground actress and gallerist (born 1950)^[42][43]
• April 13 – Trina Robbins, American cartoonist (born 1938)^[44]
• April 13 – Faith Ringgold, American painter, author, mixed media sculptor, performance artist (born 1930)^[45]
• April 16 – Jean-Marie Haessle, French painter (born 1939)^[46]
• April 25 – Au Ho-nien, Chinese painter (born 1935)^[47]
• April 28 – Zack Norman, actor and art collector (born 1940)^[48]
• May 4 – Frank Stella, American painter, sculptor, and printmaker (born 1936)^[49]
• May 17 – Roberta Marrero, Spanish artist (born 1972)^[50]
• May 23 – Marc Camille Chaimowicz, French multi-disciplinary artist (born 1946)^[51]
• June 5 – Ben Vautier, French visual artist (suicide; born 1935)^[52]
• June 29 – Jacqueline de Jong, Dutch painter, sculptor, and graphic artist (born 1939)^[53]
• June 30 – Manuel Cargaleiro, Portuguese ceramicist and painter (born 1927)^[54]
• July 1 – June Leaf, American visual artist (born 1929)^[55]
• July 10 – Thomas Hoepker, German photographer (born 1936)^[56]
• July 12 – Bill Viola, American video artist (born 1951)^[57]
• July 17 – Farhad Moshiri, Iranian artist (born 1963)^[58]
• July 22 – Germaine Hoffmann, Luxembourgish painter and collage artist (born 1930)^[59]