Garner's witty deviations in form, text and body addressed the consumerism and sameness plaguing US culture

Known for his bold, bright-hued paintings, prints and murals, Average was a pillar of Vancouver’s creative community

The late artist was actually quite sociable and had stopped producing "thick" paintings decades ago, says his only child

Faith Ringgold, Frank Auerbach, Richard Serra, Barbara Gladstone and Lorraine O’Grady were among those who died this year

Sánchez, who fled Cuba and ultimately settled in Puerto Rico, only achieved widespread critical acclaim late in her career

O’Grady, who devoted herself to art in her early forties, spent the ensuing decades making incisive works that spanned photography, collage, performance and more

The French-born London-based artist merged the once-siloed worlds of art and design to create inimitably intimate participatory experiences

The headline-making director-general of Unesco, who clashed with Reagan and Thatcher, died recently at the age of 103

The German-born British painter, a leading figure in the School of London, produced some of the most enduring and perceptive observations of what it meant to be alive during his time

Kureshi decorated India’s public spaces with beautiful, provocative and socially engaged murals

Boshier’s work was often critical of US politics and consumerism

Horn maintained a powerful drawing strand that supported her innovative conceptual sculpture practice around the human body in installations, performances and photographs

A personal memoir recalling the French actor’s “serious case of collectoritis” that saw him acquiring works by Albrecht Dürer, Théodore Géricault and Georges Braque

The former director of Cologne’s Museum Ludwig “shaped the art discourse of the last five decades like no other", the museum says

A prolific painter helped open doors for contemporary artists at a time when Indigenous art was often confined to ethnographic museums

Hoepker used long-form pictorial narratives to deliver nuanced takes on complex realities in a communist East Germany and capitalist United States

The influential American pioneer produced a ground-breaking body of work in partnership with his wife, Kira Perov, over more than 45 years

A survey of the artist's work from the last four years of her life, will be on view at the Parrish Art Museum this autumn

Her six decade-long career was distinguished by experimentation and humour

An East Village fixture for a half-century, Van Dalen created stylised drawings, paintings, sculptures and performances documenting his surroundings

The American artist married complex with simple, from Minimalist canvases to “maximalist” sculptures

"The acerbic and sometimes misanthropic troublemaker who was such a generous champion of younger artists and critics"

New York artist was acclaimed for the power of her paintings and quilts telling the civil rights story

In tributes, friends and colleagues described him as “icon of the Ukrainian queer underground” and “a holy man”

Felsen was also a trained artist and prolific photographer, who documented his close contact with the artists who worked at Gemini

His irreverent texts, signed simply “Ben”, spanned art and merchandise that was ubiquitous in France

Peri, who was abducted from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz on 7 October, was a multi-disciplinary artist and activist who founded The White House gallery

His death was confirmed by Epiris, the private equity firm that owns the auction house

His landmark "Black Paintings" series marked Stella as a Minimalist in the 1960s before he expanded his range to include brightly coloured pieces on shaped canvases, relief paintings, large-scale sculpture and work with architects

A champion of fellow Black and women artists, the New York-born painter and sculptor made a second reputation as writer and illustrator of admired children's stories