Significant events relating to the year 2026 in art are listed below.
Art fairs
Events
Exhibitions
- March 5 until April 11 - <nowiki></nowiki>Hugo Winder-Lind: Clouds of Limitless and Expanding Joy<nowiki></nowiki> at the Isabel Sullivan Gallery in New York City.
Awards
Works
Deaths
January
- January 5 - Molly Parkin, 93, Welsh painter, novelist and journalist (born 1932)
- January 8 - Hiroshi Nakamura, 93, Japanese surrealist painter (born 1932)
- January 9 - Beatriz González, 93, Colombian painter, sculptor and art historian (born 1932)
- January 11 - Philip Leider, 96, American founding editor-in-chief of ArtForum magazine (born 1929)
- January 13 - Alfred Grimm, 82, German object artist, sculptor, and painter (born 1943)
- January 18 - Scott Adams, 68, American cartoonist of Dilbert (born 1957)
- January 19 - Valentino, 93, Italian fashion designer and art collector (born 1922)
- January 22 - Marian Goodman, 97, American art dealer, gallery owner, (born 1928)
February
- February 14 - Henrike Naumann, 41, German sculptor (born 1984)
- February 18 - Roger von Gunten, 92, Swiss-born Mexican painter (born 1933)
- February 19 - Isaiah Zagar, 86, American mosaic artist (born 1939)
- February 20 - Peter Stämpfli, 88, Swiss painter and sculptor (born 1937)
- February 22 - Iris Cantor, 95, American philanthropist, Head of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, (born 1931)
- February 24
- Stephen Koch, 84, American writer, historian, teacher, and manager of the Peter Hujar art estate (born 1941)
- Giancarlo Politi, 89, Italian art critic, founder of Flash Art (born 1937) (death announced on this date)
March
- March 5 - Pedro Friedeberg, 90, Italian-born Mexican visual artist (born 1936)
- March 6 - Thaddeus Mosley, 99, American sculptor (born 1926)
- March 20 - Calvin Tomkins, 100, American author and art critic (The New Yorker) (born 1925}
- March 25 - Pat Steir, 87, American painter and printmaker. (born 1938)
- March 30 - Melvin Edwards, 88, American sculptor, (born 1937)
References