Deaths
- 19 February – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor (b.1928)
- 26 February – Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Icelandic-American painter (b. 1917)
- 16 April – Henry Bird, British muralist (b. 1909)
- 26 April – Gregory Gillespie, American magic realist painter (b. 1936)
- 8 May – Stanley Boxer, American painter (b. 1926)
- 3 June – Leonard Baskin, American sculptor, book-illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker and graphic artist (b. 1922)
- 9 June – Jacob Lawrence, American painter (b. 1917)
- 17 July – Aligi Sassu, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1912)
- 25 August – Carl Barks, American illustrator and comic book creator (b. 1901)
- 19 September – Anthony Robert Klitz, English artist (b. 1917)
- 4 December – Ansgar Elde, Swedish ceramic artist (b. 1933)
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