2024 in art

The year 2024 in art involved various significant events.

Events

January 23 – An illegally smuggled Hellenistic statuette of a Greek goddess is repatriated to Greece from the United States after sixteen years of negotiations.
January 24 – South Korea's Ministry of Unification confirms that the Arch of Reunification, a sculptural arch near Pyongyang, North Korea, has been demolished.
March 20 – Opening of the 81st Whitney Biennial in New York City, United States, lasting until August 11, 2024.
April 20 – Opening of the 60th Venice Biennale, lasting until November 24, 2024.
April 21 – A statue of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, by Hywel Pratley, is unveiled in Oakham, Rutland, UK.
May 16 – A statue of Billy Graham, by Chas Fagan, is erected at the United States Capitol, in Washington, D.C.
May 25 – Opening of an exhibition of portraits of "Windrush generation", commissioned by King Charles III of the United Kingdom.
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.
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.
September 10 – Glenn Lowry, the longest serving director in the history of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City announces that he will step down from that position in 2025 after thirty years as the museum's operating chief.
September 20 – In Bologna, Italy the prolific Czech art vandal, Vaclav Pisvejc smashes an Ai Weiwei porcelain sculpture titled Porcelain Cube at the opening of the artist's exhibition at the Palazzo Fava Museum. This was the second high-profile smashing of a work by Ai Wei Wei as in 2014 Dominican-born Miami-based artist Maximo Caminero walked into the then recently opened Pérez Art Museum Miami in Miami, Florida, and destroyed one of twelve vases employed in an installation by the Chinese dissident artist.
November 19 – René Magritte's painting The Empire of Light sells for US$121.1 million at Christie's setting both a new record price for a Surrealist work of art at auction and for a work by the artist.

Exhibitions

March 20 until August 11 – The 81st Whitney Biennial.
March 23 until July 7 – Urban Art Evolution at the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn, New York
March 26 until July 14 – Paris 1874 Inventing Impressionism at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France, then travels to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. from September 8 until January 19, 2024.
March 27 until July 1 - Brancusi

at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

April 15 – August 20 – The Boyz from the Museum at the ilon Gallery in Harlem, New York City.
April 20 until November 24 – The 60th Venice Biennale.
April 26 until October 13 – Rebecca Horn at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany.
May 7 until March 24, 2024 – Martha Jackson Jarvis: What the Trees Have Seen at the Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.
June 14 until October 14 – Guillaume Lethière at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. then named Guillaume Lethière: Born in Guadeloupe travels to the Musée du Louvre from November 13 until February 17. 2025,
September- CJ Hendry: Flower Market at Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island in New York City, New York.
September 6 until January 5, 2025 – The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876–1917 at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut.
September 13 until October 26 – Joel Shapiro: Out of the Blue at Pace Gallery in New York City.
September 14 until October 18 – The Found Art of Thom Corn at Wall Works in the Bronx, New York.
October 8 until February 9, 2025 - BAJ: Baj Chez Baj at the Palazzo Reale in Milan, Italy.
October 9 until January 20, 2025 – Arte Povera. at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, France.
October 10 until January 3, 2025 - Ronnie Landfield, Recent Works, 2024 at Findlay Gallery, New York City.
October 10 until February 2, 2025 - Jean Tinguely at the Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, Italy.
October 12 until February 9, 2025 - Tamara de Lempicka at the De Young Museum in San Francisco, California, then traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in Houston, Texas from March 9, 2025 to July 6, 2025.
October 13 until January 26, 2025 – Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; will travel to London's National Gallery in 2025
October 24 until December 7 – Cecily Brown: The Five Senses at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York City.
October 25 until December 21 - Laurent Grasso: Artificialis at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York City.
October 25 until February 9, 2025 - Magritte at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
October 31 - Continuing - Hajime Sorayama: Desire Machines at the Museum of Sex in Miami, Florida.
November 1 until February 15, 2025 - Adrian Berg: Phantasmagoria at Hunter Dunbar Projects in New York City.
November 7 until December 21 – James Little: Affirmed/Actions at Petzel in New York City.
November 8 until March 9, 2025 - Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
November 13 until February 28, 2025 - Kenny Scharf at the Brant Foundation Study Center in New York City.
December 5 until January 9, 2025 - Parmigianino: The Vision of Saint Jerome at the National Gallery in London.
December 14 until March 29, 2025 - Jean Michel Basquiat: ENGADIN at Hauser & Wirth in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
December 17 until March 15, 2025 - Reflections: Koons/Picasso at The Alhambra at the Museum of Fine Arts, Palace Charles V, in Granada, Spain.

Awards

Turner Prize: Jasleen Kaur.

Works

Omri Amrany and Oscar León – Statue of Dwyane Wade at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida.
Iván Argote – Dinosaur commissioned for and displayed on the High Line in Manhattan, New York City
Daniel Arsham – Statue of Priscilla Chan
Alex Chinneck – Loop-de-Loop Canal Boat permanently installed on the Sheffield & Tinsley Canal in Sheffield, England
Xenia Hausner – Atemluft
Sabin Howard – A Soldier's Journey part of The National World War I Memorial in Pershing Park in Washington, D.C.
Andrew Lacey – Statue of Thomas Stamford Raffles permanently installed in downtown Singapore.
Louis – Bust of Elon Musk
Ruth Patir - otherland commissioned for the Israel pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.
Alison Saar – "The Salon", Olympic sculpture commissioned for the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France.
Joel Shapiro - ''ARK''

Deaths

January

January 1 – Hartmut Ritzerfeld, German neo-Expressive painter
January 2 – Alexis Smith, American collage artist
January 4 – Kishin Shinoyama, Japanese photographer
January 15 – Brent Sikkema, American art dealer
January 19 – Robert Whitman, American performance artist
January 19 – Carl Andre, American minimalist artist
January 26 – Ricardo Pascale, Uruguayan sculptor
January 27 – Brian Griffin, British photographer

February

February 4
*Antonio Paolucci, Italian art historian and curator
*Melvin Way, American folk artist
February 5 – Helga Paris, German photographer
February 8 – Andrew Crispo, American gallerist
February 10
*Günter Brus, Austrian painter, performance artist, graphic artist and filmmaker
*A. Ramachandran, Indian painter
February 16 – Aleš Lamr, Czech visual artist
February 17 – Marc Pachter, American art curator
February 28 – Félix Aráuz, Ecuadorian painter

March

March 1
*Iris Apfel, American designer
*Chance Browne, American cartoonist
*Ennio Calabria, Italian painter and illustrator
*Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist
March 6 – Pigcasso, painting pig
March 7 – Lucas Samaras, Greek-born American photographer, sculptor and painter
March 12 – Yong Soon Min, South Korean-born American artist, curator, and educator
March 24
*Robert Moskowitz, American painter
*Imogen Stuart, German-Irish sculptor
March 26 – Richard Serra, American sculptor
March 28 – Marian Zazeela, American light artist, designer, calligrapher, and painter
March 29 – Katsura Funakoshi, Japanese sculptor
March 30 – Quisqueya Henríquez, Cuban-born Dominican multidisciplinary contemporary artist

April

April 3 – Gaetano Pesce, Italian architect and designer
April 6
*Italo Rota, Italian architect and curator
*Ziraldo, Brazilian author, cartoonist and painter
April 9 – Patti Astor, underground actress and gallerist
April 13 – Trina Robbins, American cartoonist
April 13 – Faith Ringgold, American painter, author, mixed media sculptor, performance artist
April 16 – Jean-Marie Haessle, French painter
April 25 – Au Ho-nien, Chinese painter
April 28 – Zack Norman, actor and art collector

May

May 4 – Frank Stella, American painter, sculptor, and printmaker
May 17 – Roberta Marrero, Spanish artist
May 23
*Sir John Boardman – 96, English archeologist and art historian
* Marc Camille Chaimowicz, French multi-disciplinary artist

June

June 5 – Ben Vautier, French visual artist
June 29 – Jacqueline de Jong, Dutch painter, sculptor, and graphic artist
June 30 – Manuel Cargaleiro, Portuguese ceramicist and painter

July

July 1 – June Leaf, American visual artist
July 4 – Dorothy Lichtenstein, President of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation
July 10 – Thomas Hoepker, German photographer
July 12 – Bill Viola, American video artist
July 17 – Farhad Moshiri, Iranian artist
July 22 – Germaine Hoffmann, Luxembourgish painter and collage artist
July 23 – Mark Mallia, Maltese painter and sculptor

August

August 9 – Keiichi Tanaami, 88, Japanese pop artist
August 10 – Kasper König, 80, German museum director and curator
August 11 – Simon Verity, 79, British sculptor and stone carver
August 14 – Godawari Dutta, 93, Indian Madhubani painter
August 15 – Jaime Botín, 88, Spanish art collector and convicted smuggler
August 17 - Bill Beckley, 78, American narrative and conceptual artist
August 21 – David Anfam, 69, British art writer
August 27 – Leonard Riggio, 83, American art collector
August 29 – Ēvī Upeniece, 99, Latvian sculptor
August 30 – Hans Danuser, 71, Swiss visual artist and photographer

September

September 3 – Jacqueline Winsor, 82, Canadian-born American sculptor
September 5 – Derek Boshier, 87, English Pop artist
September 6 – Rebecca Horn, 80, German visual artist and film director
September 11 – Peter Klashorst, 67, Dutch painter, sculptor, and photographer
September 14
*Fred Nall Hollis, 76, American visual artist
*James Magee, 79, American visual artist
September 16 – Norman Ackroyd, 86, English visual artist
September 16 – Eikoh Hosoe, 91, Japanese photographer
September 20 – Valentinas Antanavičius, 88, Lithuanian painter
September 22 – Ivan Vukadinov, 92, Bulgarian painter
September 26 – Richard Mayhew, 100, American painter, illustrator, and arts educator

October

October 12 – Lillian Schwartz, 97, American artist
October 15 – Andrew Stahl, 69 or 70, British painter
October 16 – Patricia Johanson, 84, American environmental artist.
October 18 – Isabelle de Borchgrave, 78, Belgian sculptor and painter
October 23 – Robert C. Morgan, 81, American art critic and visual artist
October 24 – Gary Indiana, 74, American art critic
October 28 – Paul Morrissey, 86, American film director
October 30 – Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin, 63, Swedish photographer and artist, stomach cancer

November

November 6 – Daniel Spoerri, 94, Swiss visual artist and writer
November 11
*Frank Auerbach, 93, German-British painter
*Walter Dahn, 70, German painter, photographer, and sound artist
November 15 – Tom Forrestall, 88, Canadian painter
November 16 – Eunice Parsons, 108, American artist
November 19 – Vojo Stanić, 100, Montenegrin painter and sculptor
November 23 – Cynthia Zukas, 93, South African-born Zambian painter
November 24 – Breyten Breytenbach, 85, South African painter
November 29 – Rafig Nasirov, 77, Azerbaijani sculptor

December

December 10 - Raghnall Ó Floinn, Irish art historian, director of the National Museum of Ireland.
December 13 - Lorraine O'Grady, 90, American artist
December 15
*Juan Cárdenas Arroyo, 85, Colombian painter
*Jodhaiya Bai Baiga, 86, Indian visual artist
*Rezki Zerarti, 86, Algerian painter
December 16 - Yoshio Taniguchi, 87, Japanese architect
December 17 - Roberto Esteban Chavez, 92, American artist
December 18 - Zilia Sánchez Domínguez, 96, Cuban-born Puerto Rican visual artist
December 20 - Kurt Laurenz Metzler, 83, Swiss sculptor
December 24 - Alfredo Prior, 72, Argentine painter
December 29 - Marie-Claude Beaud, 78, French art exhibition curator