Remembered for his wit and unconventional practices, Flood oversaw several shows at the institution in addition to writing and editing for over four decades.

Through iconic works like his “Blah! Blah! Blah!” paintings, Bochner probed visual art's relationship with language as a medium rather than a supplemental tool.

He co-founded one of the first Black-owned contemporary art galleries in the US, exhibiting the work of David Hammons, Kerry James Marshall, and many others.

A galvanizing arts educator and accomplished painter, Nickson is also remembered for his fervent belief in the discipline of drawing.

Her five-decade oeuvre is an intimate visual lexicon that bridges personal memories and joyful resilience.

Throughout her career, she experimented with a range of techniques to elicit something more profound than that which a straightforward image could communicate.

“There was an awful lot going on in the world, and I didn’t just want to sit there and draw straight lines,” the artist said of her turn away from abstraction.

Aaron de Groft’s career as curator and director of Florida arts institutions was eclipsed by the 2022 exhibition of fake works. 

The visionary film director and artist was an institution unto himself — primarily of cinema, but also painting, music, photography, and culture at large.

The Argentinian-born artist crafted riverbed sculptures and palimpsestic canvases, painstakingly layered paintings that have the effect of a well-worn memory rubbed away.

His HIV diagnosis in 1985 drove him to dedicate his life to his art, distinct for its prismatic color scheme and inspiring messages.

"She wanted a trans president, universal healthcare, the end of testosterone toxicity overload and pet-troll-eum, hormones for all, lusty living to the very end," her friends said.

Her sculptural canvases or "erotic topologies” evoked the sinuous rhythms of the natural world and their echoes in the female body.

The artist’s playful adoption of the banana motif transformed an everyday object into a vehicle for social interaction and anti-market exchange.

Known for his collaborative spirit, Englander helped secure the Lower East Side nonprofit’s property for a dollar after decades of eviction threats from the city.

From her newspaper collages to her performance persona Mademoiselle Bourgeoise Noire, O’Grady subverted hierarchies from a Black feminist perspective.

A key figure of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and ’70s, the poet and activist is celebrated for her illuminating works touching on race, gender, and politics.

The artist influenced generations of Pacific Northwestern artists as an artist and teacher.

The artist rendered portraits and scenes of the streets of north London with a life-affirming spirit and no evidence of frivolousness.

A suspect, Thomas Gannon, confessed to the murder in a text message to a family member before ending his own life.

Cunningham rose to prominence with her large-scale oil landscapes that walk the line between the natural world and entropic abstraction.

The 32-year-old digital illustrator, who had amassed a following on social media, was among dozens of people killed at the Jabalia refugee camp.

The environmental artist’s innovative oeuvre spanned Minimalism, Land Art, public gardens, and more.

The celebrated photographer and educator was known for his impactful images of historic world events.

Her artistry fused traditional carving, weaving, and beading techniques that she learned from family members and ancestors.

Mayhew examined place, identity, emotion, and connections to the natural world in his vibrant, abstract artworks.

She leaves behind a six-decade oeuvre that explores the human body through versatile mediums.

The art historian’s legacy includes a large body of writing on Clyfford Still and his celebrated Mark Rothko catalogue raisonné.

The local art community is mourning the loss of Mangus, who was also a union leader and an award-winning art writer.

The artist and residential school survivor created vivid works that meld Denesuline iconography with modern and contemporary styles.

The artist helped cement new media technology as a means of expression in works that explored life’s universal questions.

“I am a painter who had to have a tactile experience with the world,” Leaf told Hyperallergic in a 2016 interview.

Provocative, candid, political, and unmistakably feminist, de Jong gained international appreciation in recent years. 

“[I] have always worked from the perspective of starting with home, then street, neighborhood, city, world,” the artist told Hyperallergic critic John Yau.

At the tail end of her seven-decade career, she developed a new style she called "Post-Pop Baroque."

Peri, who reportedly died in Hamas captivity, is remembered for his volunteering work and commitment to the visual arts.

Gladstone, whose namesake gallery represents over 70 artists and estates, opened her first location in Manhattan in 1980 in a space “the size of a shoebox.”

The beloved canine was honored with her very own bronze sculpture in Japan last year.

More than any other artist of his generation, Zucker rejected the conventions associated with Abstract Expressionism, particularly its subjectivity.

Albini may be best known for his work on Nirvana’s In Utero, but it was his own bands, Big Black and Shellac, that made him a badass.

The painter and sculptor reoriented the North American arts landscape, defying any strict characterizations of his work as it evolved across concepts and media.

She leaves behind a massive corpus of visually stunning works tackling race, gender, and social justice in the United States.

The artist wove together the irresolvable themes of identity, changeability, and memory both personal and historical.

At once aloof and inviting, his gargantuan and often controversial sculptures draw viewers in for an experience of the sublime.

Dixon harnessed the accessibility of online platforms to help demystify museums and encourage the public to connect with the arts.

As a self-proclaimed “Cold War baby,” Min navigated the shifting political climate of post-war Korea and plumbed the Asian-American diasporic experience.

Fathi Ghaben, a self-taught painter, was 77 years old and suffered from respiratory issues.

The Diné filmmaker, musician, and activist whose work centered land rights, Indigenous liberation, and climate justice died in December at the age of 48.

Inspired by the gilded artworks of the African diaspora, the Art Deco movement, and Gustav Klimt, Hunt was known for her intricately precise works.

His endurance-based works drew attention to overlooked nuances, from systemic inequities imposed on Black Americans to absurd social rituals.