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 24, 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]
• July 26 - A performance staged as part of the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, causes controversy when it is seen by some parties as mocking the Last Supper of Jesus Christ and more specifically Leonardo Da Vinci's famous fresco depiction of it.^[8]
• September 10 - Glenn Lowry, tbe longest serving director in the history of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City announces that he will step down fro.m that position in 2025 after thirty years as the museum's operating chief.^[9]

• March 20 until August 11 - The 81st Whitney Biennial (curated by Chrissie Iles and on partial view until September 29).^[10]
• March 23 until July 7 - Urban Art Evolution (curated by Christopher Pusey) at the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn, New York^[11]
• March 26 until July 14 - Paris 1874 Inventing Impressionism at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France,^[12] then travels to the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. from September 8 until January 19, 2024.^[13]
• April 15 - August 20 - The Boyz from the Museum (Scot Borofsky Chrisropher Hart Chambers Linus Coraggio Al Diaz Ken Hirastuka Rick Prol) at the ilon Gallery in Harlem, New York City.^[14]
• April 20 until November 24 - The 60th Venice Biennale.^[15]
• April 26 until October 13 - Rebecca Horn at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany.^[16]
• June 14 until October 14 - Guillaume Lethière at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts,^[17] then named Guillaume Lethière: Born in Guadeloupe travels to the Musée du Louvre from November 13 until February 17. 2025,^[18]

• Daniel Arsham - Statue of Priscilla Chan^[19]
• Xenia Hausner - Atemluft^[20]
• Andrew Lacey - Statue of Thomas Stamford Raffles permanently installed in downtown Singapore.^[21]
• Louis - Bust of Elon Musk^[22]
• Alison Saar – "The Salon" (sculpture), Olympic sculpture commissioned for the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France.^[23]

• January 1 – Hartmut Ritzerfeld, German neo-Expressive painter (born 1950)^[24]
• January 2 – Alexis Smith, American collage artist (born 1949)^[25]
• January 4 – Kishin Shinoyama, Japanese photographer (born 1940)^[26]
• January 15 – Brent Sikkema, American art dealer (born 1948)^[27]
• January 19 – Robert Whitman, American performance artist (born 1935)^[28]
• January 19 – Carl Andre, American minimalist artist (born 1935)^[29]
• January 26 – Ricardo Pascale, Uruguayan sculptor (born 1942)^[30]
• January 27 – Brian Griffin, British photographer (born 1948)^[31]

• February 4
  • Antonio Paolucci, Italian art historian and curator (born 1939)^[32]
  • Melvin Way, American folk artist (born 1954)^[33]
• February 5 – Helga Paris, German photographer (born 1938)^[34]
• February 8 – Andrew Crispo, American gallerist (born 1945)^[35]
• February 10
  • Günter Brus, Austrian painter, performance artist, graphic artist and filmmaker (born 1938)^[36]
  • A. Ramachandran, Indian painter (born 1935)^[37]
• February 16 – Aleš Lamr, Czech visual artist (born 1943)^[38]
• February 17 – Marc Pachter, American art curator (born 1943)^[39]
• February 28 – Félix Aráuz, Ecuadorian painter (born 1935)^[40]

• March 1
  • Iris Apfel, American designer (born 1921)^[41]
  • Chance Browne, American cartoonist (born 1948)^[42]
  • Ennio Calabria, Italian painter and illustrator (born 1937)^[43]
  • Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist (subdural hematoma; born 1955)^[44]
• March 6 (death announced) – Pigcasso, painting pig (born 2016)^[45]
• March 7 – Lucas Samaras, Greek-born American photographer, sculptor and painter (born 1936)^[46]
• March 24
  • Robert Moskowitz, American painter (born 1935)^[47]
  • Imogen Stuart, German-Irish sculptor (born 1927)^[48]
• March 26 – Richard Serra, American sculptor (born 1938)^[49]
• March 28 – Marian Zazeela, American light artist, designer, calligrapher, and painter (born 1940)^[50]
• March 29 – Katsura Funakoshi, Japanese sculptor (born 1951)^[51]
• March 30 – Quisqueya Henríquez, Cuban-born Dominican multidisciplinary contemporary artist (born 1951)^[52]

• April 3 – Gaetano Pesce, Italian architect and designer (born 1939)^[53]
• April 6
  • Italo Rota, Italian architect and curator (born 1953)^[54]
  • Ziraldo, Brazilian author, cartoonist and painter (born 1932)^[55][56]
• April 9 – Patti Astor, underground actress and gallerist (born 1950)^[57][58]
• April 13 – Trina Robbins, American cartoonist (born 1938)^[59]
• April 13 – Faith Ringgold, American painter, author, mixed media sculptor, performance artist (born 1930)^[60]
• April 16 – Jean-Marie Haessle, French painter (born 1939)^[61]
• April 25 – Au Ho-nien, Chinese painter (born 1935)^[62]
• April 28 – Zack Norman, actor and art collector (born 1940)^[63]

• May 4 – Frank Stella, American painter, sculptor, and printmaker (born 1936)^[64]
• May 17 – Roberta Marrero, Spanish artist (born 1972)^[65]
• May 23 – Marc Camille Chaimowicz, French multi-disciplinary artist (born 1946)^[66]

• June 5 – Ben Vautier (aka Ben), French visual artist (suicide; born 1935)^[67]
• June 29 – Jacqueline de Jong, Dutch painter, sculptor, and graphic artist (born 1939)^[68]
• June 30 – Manuel Cargaleiro, Portuguese ceramicist and painter (born 1927)^[69]

• July 1 – June Leaf, American visual artist (born 1929)^[70]
• July 10 – Thomas Hoepker, German photographer (born 1936)^[71]
• July 12 – Bill Viola, American video artist (born 1951)^[72]
• July 17 – Farhad Moshiri, Iranian artist (born 1963)^[73]
• July 22 – Germaine Hoffmann, Luxembourgish painter and collage artist (born 1930)^[74]
• July 23 – Mark Mallia, Maltese painter and sculptor (born 1965)^[75]

• August 9 – Keiichi Tanaami, 88, Japanese pop artist^[76]
• August 10 – Kasper König, 80, German museum director and curator^[77]
• August 11 - Simon Verity, 79, British sculptor and stone carver (Cathedral of Saint John the Divine) (born 1945)^[78]
• August 14 – Godawari Dutta, 93, Indian Madhubani painter^[79]
• August 15 - Jaime Botín, 88, Spanish art collector and convicted smuggler (Head of a Young Woman by Pablo Picasso 1906) ^[80]
• August 21 - David Anfam, 69, British art writer (born 1955)^[81]
• August 27 - Leonard Riggio, 83, American art collector (Dia) (born 1941)^[82]
• August 29 - Ēvī Upeniece, 99, Latvian sculptor (born 1925)^[83]
• August 30 - Hans Danuser, 71, Swiss visual artist and photographer (born 1953)^[84]

• September 3 - Jacqueline Winsor, 82, Canadian-born American sculptor (born 1941)^[85](death announced on this date)
• September 5 - Derek Boshier, 87, English Pop artist (born 1937)^[86]
• September 6 - Rebecca Horn, 80, German visual artist and film director (Buster's Bedroom) (born 1944)^[87]
• September 11 - Peter Klashorst, 67, Dutch painter, sculptor, and photographer (born 1957)^[88]