As the earth completes another trip around the sun, Artnet News invites you to pause and remember those we lost in the art world in 2022.
The list below is arranged according to the date the obituary was published. The full headlines link to Artnet News coverage, the listed names and professions direct to stories published by other news outlets.
June
‘A Dazzling and Powerful Force for Good and Change’: Friends and Colleagues Remember the Late Artist and Feminist Trailblazer Paula Rego
Tony Knipe, artist
Tim Sale, comic artist
Manfredi della Gherardesca, curator
Marina Lambraki-Plaka, museum director
Austrian Billionaire Heidi Goëss-Horten Has Died at Age 81, Just Days After Opening Her Private Museum in Vienna
Jeane Hamilton, arts patron
Hunter Reynolds, artist
Artist Margaret Keane, Whose Husband Tried to Take Credit for Her Paintings of Big-Eyed Characters, Has Died at 94
Duncan Hannah, artist
Painter Sam Gilliam, Celebrated for His Boldly Colored Draped Canvases, Has Died at 88
Sophie Lauwers, museum director
Robbie Kienzle, city planner and public art advocate
Yves Coppens, archaeologist
Jacques Villeglé, artist
Tarek Al-Ghoussein, photographer
Arnold Skolnick, artist
Michel David-Weill, collector