Notable Alumni of Pratt Institute – Main [Sorted List]

1. Lou Fine

1914-1971 (aged 57)

illustrator comics artist

Louis Kenneth Fine was an American comic book artist known for his work during the 1940s Golden Age of comic books, where his draftsmanship became an influential model to a generation of fellow comics artists.

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2. George Pratt

1960-. (aged 66)

photographer comics colorist university teacher painter illustrator

George Pratt is an American painter and illustrator known for his work in the comic book field.

3. Derrick Adams

1970-. (aged 56)

performance artist painter exhibition curator sculptor visual artist

Derrick Adams is an American visual and performance artist and curator. Much of Adams' work is centered around his Black identity, frequently referencing patterns, images, and themes of Black culture in America. Adams has additionally worked as a fine art professor, serving as a faculty member at Maryland Institute College of Art.

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4. Myrna Báez

1931-2018 (aged 87)

educator painter lithographer artist printmaker

Myrna Báez was a Puerto Rican painter and printmaker, considered one of the most important visual artists in Puerto Rico. She has been instrumental in promoting art and art education in her country. Her work has been shown and collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York....

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5. Bernard Chang

1972-. (aged 54)

designer penciller

Bernard Chang is a Canadian-American artist and designer known for his work in the comic book industry and entertainment design.

6. Yara Tupinambá

1932-. (aged 94)

painter

Yara Tupynambá Gordilho Santos is a Brazilian visual artist.

7. Herbert Abrams

1920-2003 (aged 83)

painter

Herbert E. Abrams was an American artist. He was one of the leading portrait artists of his era known for his style of traditional realism. His works included the official White House portraits of former presidents Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush. During his prolific career, he painted more than 400 portraits, including those of General William Westmoreland, playwright...

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8. Paul Calle

1928-2010 (aged 82)

painter postage stamp designer

Paul Calle was an American artist who was best known for the designs he created for postage stamps, including 40 that were released by the United States Postal Service, and others for stamps issued by the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Sweden and the United Nations. The sole artist hired by NASA to cover the Apollo 11 astronauts...

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9. William Hart McNichols

1949-. (aged 77)

painter iconographer Catholic priest

William Hart McNichols is an American Catholic priest and artist from the United States. He was formerly a member of the Society of Jesus.

10. Matthew Reinhart

1971-. (aged 55)

illustrator

Matthew Christian Reinhart is an American writer and illustrator of children's pop-up books and picture books. His most recent books include Frozen: a Pop-up Adventure and Lego Pop-up: A Journey through the Lego Universe.

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11. Diane Noomin

1947-2022 (aged 75)

comics artist illustrator cartoonist

Diane Robin Noomin was an American comics artist associated with the underground comics movement. She is best known for her character DiDi Glitz, who addresses transgressive social issues such as feminism, female masturbation, body image, and miscarriages.

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12. David Ascalon

1945-. (aged 81)

painter sculptor

David Ascalon is an Israeli contemporary sculptor and stained glass artist, and co-founder of Ascalon Studios.

13. Ivy Bottini

1926-2021 (aged 95)

LGBTQ rights activist HIV/AIDS activist

Ivy Bottini was an American activist for women's and LGBTQ rights, and a visual artist.

14. Leonard Starr

1925-2015 (aged 90)

comics artist screenwriter cartoonist

Leonard Starr was an American cartoonist, comic book artist, and advertising artist, best known for creating the newspaper comic strip On Stage and reviving Little Orphan Annie.

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15. Ghostshrimp

1980-. (aged 46)

illustrator animator

Daniel James Bandit, better known as Ghostshrimp, is an American graphic artist, animator and illustrator. His illustration work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and on many album covers, including the MF DOOM and Bishop Nehru collaboration NehruvianDoom. He is the former lead background designer for the Cartoon Network series Adventure Time. He left midway through...

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16. Ed Koren

1935-2023 (aged 88)

cartoonist writer illustrator artist draftsperson

Edward Benjamin Koren was an American writer, illustrator, and political cartoonist, most notably featured in The New Yorker.

17. Terry Winters

1949-. (aged 77)

photographer printmaker graphic artist visual artist painter

Terry Winters is an American painter, draughtsman, and printmaker whose nuanced approach to the process of painting has addressed evolving concepts of spatiality and expanded the concerns of abstract art. His attention to the process of painting and investigations into systems and spatial fields explores both non-narrative abstraction and the physicality of modernism. In Winters’ work, abstract processes give way...

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18. Katherine Sophie Dreier

1877-1952 (aged 75)

art collector painter suffragist artist

Katherine Sophie Dreier was an American artist, lecturer, patron of the arts, and social reformer. Dreier developed an interest in art at a young age and was afforded the opportunity of studying art in the United States and in Europe due to her parents' wealth and progressive attitudes. Her sister Dorothea, a Post-Impressionist painter traveled and studied with her in...

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19. Doreen Cronin

1966-. (aged 60)

writer children's writer

Doreen Cronin is an American writer of children's books, including Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type, a picture book illustrated by Betsy Lewin.

20. Pat Steir

1938-. (aged 88)

painter artist university teacher installation artist illustrator

Pat Steir is an American painter and printmaker. Her early work was loosely associated with conceptual art and minimalism, however, she is best known for her abstract dripped, splashed and poured "Waterfall" paintings, which she started in the 1980s, and for her later site-specific wall drawings.

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21. Alice Boughton

1866-1943 (aged 77)

photographer artist

Alice Boughton was an early 20th-century American photographer known for her photographs of many literary and theatrical figures of her time. She was a Fellow of Alfred Stieglitz's Photo-Secession, a circle of photographers whose artistic efforts succeeded in raising photography to a fine art form.

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22. Sergio Rossetti Morosini

1953-. (aged 73)

painter sculptor

Sergio Rossetti Morosini is a Contemporary Brazilian-American scholar, artist and author of Venetian extraction who served as Brazil's Cultural attaché in New Orleans and is also dedicated to preserving the Atlantic Forest and restoring the art in stone of New York City Landmarks.

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23. Joshua Davis

1971-. (aged 55)

designer

Joshua Davis is an American designer, technologist, author, and visual artist in new media.

24. Chance M. Vought

1890-1930 (aged 40)

aircraft designer military flight engineer aircraft pilot engineer inventor

Chauncey Milton "Chance" Vought was an American aviation pioneer and engineer, who was the co-founder of the Lewis and Vought Corporation with Birdseye Lewis.

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25. Norman Norell

1900-1972 (aged 72)

costume designer fashion designer

Norman David Levinson known professionally as Norman Norell, was an American fashion designer famed for his elegant gowns, suits, and tailored silhouettes. His designs for the Traina-Norell and Norell fashion houses became famous for their detailing, simple, timeless designs, and tailored construction. By the mid-twentieth century Norell dominated the American fashion industry and in 1968 he launched a perfume in...

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26. Bob Giraldi

1939-. (aged 87)

film producer screenwriter film director

Robert Nicholas Giraldi is an American filmmaker, music video and commercial director, educator, and restaurateur. He is known for directing the film Dinner Rush (2000) and the music video for Michael Jackson's "Beat It" (1983). Giraldi has been inducted into the Art Director's Hall of Fame, one of the few film directors to be honored; and, in 2014, was the...

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27. Gwendolyn B. Bennett

1902-1981 (aged 79)

short story writer writer journalist artist poet

Gwendolyn B. Bennett was an American artist, writer, and journalist who contributed to Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, which chronicled cultural advancements during the Harlem Renaissance. Though often overlooked, she herself made considerable accomplishments in art, poetry, and prose. She is perhaps best known for her short story "Wedding Day", which was published in the magazine Fire!! and explores...

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28. Audrey Kawasaki

1982-. (aged 44)

painter

Audrey Kawasaki is a Los Angeles-based painter, known for her distinctive portrayals of young, adolescent women. Her works are oil paintings painted directly onto wood panels, and her style has been described as a fusion of Art Nouveau and Japanese manga, with primary influences like Gustav Klimt and Alphonse Mucha, saying “The merging of realistically molded faces and bodies against...

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29. Lance Wyman

1937-. (aged 89)

graphic designer designer

Lance Wyman is an American graphic designer. He is known for his work under Mexican architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, doing design concept and direction in developing applications of the logo for the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

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30. Martin Nodell

1915-2006 (aged 91)

cartoonist screenwriter comics artist draftsperson visual artist

Martin Nodell was an American cartoonist and commercial artist, best known as the creator of the Golden Age superhero Green Lantern. Some of his work appeared under the pen name Mart Dellon.

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31. Joel Haver

1996-. (aged 30)

filmmaker

Joel Haver is a Canadian YouTuber and filmmaker, best known for his rotoscoped skits and low-budget feature-length films.

32. Richard Bernstein

1939-2002 (aged 63)

painter designer

Richard Frederick Bernstein was an American artist associated with pop art and the circle of Andy Warhol. From 1972 to 1989, he was the cover artist for Interview magazine.

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33. Miru Kim

1981-. (aged 45)

photographer

Miru Kim is an artist, photographer, illustrator, and arts events coordinator, who has explored, documented, and photographed various urban settings such as abandoned subway stations, tunnels, the Croton aqueduct, Paris catacombs, factories, hospitals, and shipyards.

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34. Isaiah Zagar

1939-. (aged 87)

visual artist

Isaiah Zagar was an American mosaic artist based in Philadelphia. He completed more than 200 murals, mainly of mixed media and primarily in or around Philadelphia's South Street.

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35. Rotimi Fani-Kayode

1955-1989 (aged 34)

photographer

Rotimi Fani-Kayode listen, born Oluwarotimi Adebiyi Wahab Fani-Kayode, was a Nigerian photographer who at the age of 11 moved with his family to England, fleeing from the Biafran War. A seminal figure in British contemporary art, Fani-Kayode explored the tensions created by sexuality, race and culture through stylised portraits and compositions. He created the bulk of his work between 1982...

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36. Bill Griffith

1944-. (aged 82)

comics artist caricaturist illustrator

William Henry Jackson Griffith is an American cartoonist who signs his work Bill Griffith and Griffy. He is best known for his surreal daily comic strip Zippy. The catchphrase "Are we having fun yet?" is credited to Griffith.

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37. Brandy Zadrozny

1980-. (aged 46)

journalist investigative journalist

Brandy Zadrozny is an American investigative journalist and reporter with NBC News and MSNBC who specializes in radicalization, extremism and disinformation on the Internet.

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38. Joe Caroff

1921-2025 (aged 104)

graphic designer

Joseph Caroff was an American graphic designer known for film posters and corporate logos. He created the 007 pistol logo for the James Bond movie franchise and the poster design for the movie West Side Story. Caroff and the design agency he ran under his name were involved with over 300 other films, as well as product branding and company...

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39. Pen-ek Ratanaruang

1962-. (aged 64)

film director screenwriter

Pen-ek Ratanaruang is a Thai film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his arthouse work, Last Life in the Universe, and is considered to be one of Thai cinema's leading "new wave" auteurs, alongside Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. He goes by the nickname Tom and is sometimes credited as Tom Pannet.

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40. William Pope.L

1955-2023 (aged 68)

visual artist painter performance artist photographer

William Pope.L, also known as Pope.L, was an accomplished American visual artist recognized for his contributions to performance art and interventionist public art. He also created pieces in painting, photography, and theater. He was featured in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and was the recipient of the Creative Capital Visual Arts Award, as well as a Guggenheim Fellow. Notably, Pope.L was...

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41. Robert Sabuda

1965-. (aged 61)

painter visual artist illustrator

Robert Sabuda is a children's pop-up book artist and paper engineer. His innovative designs have made him well known in the book arts, with The New York Times referring to Sabuda as "indisputably the king of pop-ups" in a 2003 article.

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42. Rob Sheridan

1979-. (aged 47)

graphic designer cinematographer film editor blogger photographer

Robert Sheridan is an American artist, creative director, stage visual designer, photographer, and comic book author known for his extensive work in the music and entertainment industries and with the bands Nine Inch Nails and Pearl Jam. He is widely known as a designer of stage visuals. He is also an apparel designer, and founder of Glitch Goods.

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43. Anne Carroll Moore

1871-1961 (aged 90)

literary critic writer journalist librarian children's writer

Anne Carroll Moore was an American educator, writer and advocate for children's libraries.

44. Greer Lankton

1958-1996 (aged 38)

installation artist artist puppet designer photographer

Greer Lankton, was an American transgender artist known for creating lifelike sewn dolls that were often modeled on friends or celebrities and posed in elaborate theatrical settings. She was a key figure in the East Village art scene of the 1980s in New York.

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45. Lisa Brown

1972-. (aged 54)

illustrator

Lisa Michelle Brown is an American illustrator and writer whose books include Picture the Dead, How To Be, The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming, and Baby, Mix Me A Drink. She draws the Three Panel Book Review cartoon for the book section of the San Francisco Chronicle. She graduated with a BA from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in 1993,...

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46. Yehuda Bacon

1929-. (aged 97)

painter printmaker illustrator university teacher

Yehuda Bacon is an Israeli artist and Holocaust survivor.

47. Kim Deitch

1944-. (aged 82)

comics artist animator cartoonist

Kim Deitch is an American cartoonist who was an important figure in the underground comix movement of the 1960s, remaining active in the decades that followed with a variety of books and comics, sometimes using the pseudonym Fowlton Means.

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48. Michael Dweck

1957-. (aged 69)

film screenwriter photographer film director

Michael Dweck is an American visual artist and filmmaker. Best known for his narrative photography, Dweck's work "explores ongoing struggles between identity and adaptation in endangered societal enclaves." In 2003, he became the first living photographer to have a solo exhibition at Sotheby's, and in 2012, he was the first American photographer to exhibit his work in Cuba since the...

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49. Kadir Nelson

1974-. (aged 52)

postage stamp designer painter children's writer illustrator

Kadir Nelson is a Los Angeles-based painter, illustrator, and author who is best known for his paintings often featured on the covers of The New Yorker magazine, and album covers for Michael Jackson and Drake. His work is focused on African-American culture and history. The New York Times described his work as "sumptuous, deeply affecting work. Nelson’s paintings are drenched...

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50. Juan Muñoz

1953-2001 (aged 48)

sculptor painter installation artist architectural draftsperson performance artist

Juan Muñoz was a Spanish sculptor, working primarily in paper maché, resin and bronze. He was also interested in the auditory arts and created compositions for the radio. He was a self-described "storyteller". In 2000, Muñoz was awarded Spain's major Premio Nacional de Bellas Artes in recognition of his work; he died shortly after, in 2001.

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51. George Lois

1931-2022 (aged 91)

graphic designer designer advertising person photographer

George Harry Lois was an American art director, designer, and author. Lois was perhaps best known for over 92 covers he designed for Esquire magazine from 1962 to 1973.

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52. Shawn Christensen

screenwriter film director film editor film producer actor

Shawn Christensen is an American musician, filmmaker, podcaster and artist. He is a graduate of Pratt Institute, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in illustration and graphic design. Christensen was the frontman of the indie rock band Stellastarr. In 2013, he won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for his short film Curfew.

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53. John Requa

1967-. (aged 59)

screenwriter director film director

John Requa is an American screenwriter of Cats & Dogs, Bad Santa and the 2005 remake Bad News Bears.

54. Swoon

1978-. (aged 48)

painter graffiti artist printmaker

Caledonia Dance Curry, whose work appears under the name Swoon, is an American contemporary artist who works with printmaking, sculpture, and stop-motion animation to create immersive installations, community-based projects and public artworks. She is best known as one of the first women street artists to gain international recognition. Her work centers the transformative capacity of art as a catalyst for...

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55. Gautam Thapar

1960-. (aged 66)

entrepreneur

Gautam Thapar is an Indian businessman who is the chairman of Avantha Group and a member of the Thapar family. Thapar was noted as an industrialist; however, in 2019, he faced allegations of financial fraud which negatively impacted his businesses and included Thapar losing control of his largest company.

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56. Jules Feiffer

1929-2025 (aged 96)

comics artist writer playwright actor screenwriter

Jules Ralph Feiffer was an American cartoonist and author, who at one time was considered the most widely read satirist in the country. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for editorial cartooning and, in 2004, Feiffer was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame. He wrote the animated short Munro, which won an Academy Award for Best Animated...

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57. Eric Goldberg

1955-. (aged 71)

film director character designer director actor animator

Eric Allen Goldberg is an American animator, voice actor, film director, and producer. He is known for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios and Warner Bros. Animation.

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58. Jeff Morrow

1907-1993 (aged 86)

film actor television actor stage actor

Leslie Irving Morrow, known as Jeff Morrow, was an American actor.

59. Roger Sanchez

1967-. (aged 59)

record producer disc jockey composer

Roger Sanchez is an American house DJ, remixer and producer. He won a Grammy Award for his remix of "Hella Good" by No Doubt in 2003, and is best known for his song "Another Chance", which was an international hit in 2001. He is a four time DJ Awards winner for "Best House DJ" in 1999, 2002, 2004 and 2007...

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60. Emiliano Zurita

1993-. (aged 33)

writer manufacturer actor television producer

Emiliano Zurita is a Mexican actor, writer and producer, best known for his role as Felipe Quintanilla in the Telemundo' series Señora Acero. He is the son of actors Christian Bach and Humberto Zurita and younger brother of Sebastián Zurita. Zurita is a graduate of the Pratt Institute in New York as an architect. At the same time, he studied...

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61. John Flansburgh

1960-. (aged 66)

singer guitarist songwriter film director musician

John Conant Flansburgh is an American musician and a co-founder of the alternative rock band They Might Be Giants with John Linnell, which was formed in 1982. He is the lead writer and singer, playing rhythm guitar for the band.

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62. Pamela Colman Smith

1878-1951 (aged 73)

publisher editor painter illustrator graphic designer

Pamela Colman Smith, nicknamed "Pixie", was a British artist, illustrator, writer, publisher, and occultist. She is best-known for illustrating the Rider–Waite Tarot (also known as the Rider–Waite–Smith or Waite–Smith Tarot) for Arthur Edward Waite. This tarot deck became the standard among tarot card readers, and remains the most widely used today. Smith also illustrated over 20 books, wrote two collections...

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63. Daniel Clowes

1961-. (aged 65)

cartoonist novelist comics artist writer screenwriter

Daniel Gillespie Clowes is an American cartoonist, graphic novelist, illustrator, and screenwriter. Most of Clowes's work first appeared in Eightball, a solo anthology comic book series. An Eightball issue typically contained several short pieces and a chapter of a longer narrative that was later collected and published as a graphic novel, such as Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron...

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64. Arthur Kane

1949-2004 (aged 55)

writer autobiographer guitarist musician

Arthur Harold Kane Jr. was an American musician best known as the bass guitarist for the pioneering glam rock band the New York Dolls. Kane was a founding member of the Dolls in 1971 and remained an integral part of the band until he was forced out in 1975, shortly after the departure of Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan. In...

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65. Glenn Ficarra

1971-. (aged 55)

film director screenwriter

Glenn Ficarra is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. He has frequently collaborated with John Requa.

66. Adelaide Hall

1901-1993 (aged 92)

singer stage actor jazz musician

Adelaide Louise Hall was an American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer. Her career spanned more than 70 years from 1921 until her death. Early in her career, she was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance; she became based in the UK after 1938. Hall entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 2003 as the world's most enduring recording...

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67. Jacob Lawrence

1917-2000 (aged 83)

painter printmaker illustrator draftsperson

Jacob Armstead Lawrence was an American painter known for his portrayal of African-American historical subjects and contemporary life. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", an art form popularized in Europe which drew great inspiration from West African and Meso-American art. For his compositions, Lawrence found inspiration in everyday life in Harlem. He brought the African-American experience to life...

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68. Ellsworth Kelly

1923-2015 (aged 92)

draftsperson printmaker graphic artist sculptor painter

Ellsworth Kelly was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color field painting and minimalism. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing line, color and form, similar to the work of John McLaughlin and Kenneth Noland. Kelly often employed bright colors. He lived and worked in Spencertown, New York.

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69. Jeremy Scott

1974-. (aged 52)

shoe designer fashion designer

Jeremy Scott is an American fashion designer. He is the sole owner of his namesake label, and from October 2013 to March 2023 was the creative director of the fashion house Moschino. Since launching his brand in Paris in 1997, Scott has built a reputation as "pop culture's most irreverent designer", and "fashion's last rebel".

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70. Owen Kline

1991-. (aged 35)

film screenwriter film producer film actor film director film editor

Owen Joseph Kline is an American filmmaker, actor, and cartoonist. He is best known for his directorial debut Funny Pages (2022) and his performance as Frank Berkman in The Squid and the Whale (2005).

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71. Phoebe Robinson

1984-. (aged 42)

comedian podcaster

Phoebe Robinson is an American comedian, writer, and actress based in New York City.

72. Paul Rand

1914-1996 (aged 82)

designer graphic designer teacher

Paul Rand was an American art director and graphic designer. He is known for his corporate logo designs, including logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, Morningstar, Inc., Westinghouse, ABC, and NeXT. He developed an American Modernist style from European influences and was one of the first American commercial artists to embrace and practice the Swiss Style of graphic design. Rand was...

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73. Peter Zumthor

1943-. (aged 83)

designer restorer university teacher architect

Peter Zumthor is a Swiss architect whose work is frequently described as uncompromising and minimalist. Though managing a relatively small firm and not being a prolific architect, he is the winner of the 2009 Pritzker Prize and 2013 RIBA Royal Gold Medal.

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74. Betsey Johnson

1942-. (aged 84)

fashion designer costume designer visual artist

Betsey Johnson is an American fashion designer best known for her colorful, cute, and whimsical designs. Many of her designs are considered "over the top" and embellished. She is also known for doing a cartwheel ending in a split at the end of her fashion shows. She is a recipient of the 2015 CFDA Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award.

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75. Djuna Barnes

1892-1982 (aged 90)

painter poet writer novelist journalist

Djuna Barnes was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature.

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76. Joseph Barbera

1911-2006 (aged 95)

film director comics artist animator television producer executive producer

Joseph Roland Barbera was an American animator and cartoonist. He co-founded the animation studio Hanna-Barbera alongside William Hanna.

77. Oneohtrix Point Never

1982-. (aged 44)

singer record producer composer

Daniel Lopatin, best known as Oneohtrix Point Never or OPN, is an American electronic music producer, composer, singer, and songwriter. He began his career the early 2000s as part of Brooklyn's noise music scene and later received early acclaim for the synthesizer-based compilation Rifts (2009) as well as the influential vaporwave side-project Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 (2010). His work...

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78. Deborah Van Valkenburgh

1952-. (aged 74)

film actor television actor stage actor

Deborah Van Valkenburgh is an American actress best known for her screen debut as Mercy in the 1979 cult film The Warriors, and her role as Jackie Rush for five seasons (1980–1985) on the television situation comedy Too Close for Comfort. In 2012, she won the Best Supporting Actress in a Fantasy Film award at the PollyGrind Underground Film Festival...

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79. Martin Landau

1928-2017 (aged 89)

television actor voice actor stage actor film actor

Martin James Landau was an American actor. His career began in the late 1950s, with early film appearances including a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). His career breakthrough came with leading roles in the television series Mission: Impossible (1966–1969) and Space: 1999 (1975–1977).

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80. Harvey Fierstein

1952-. (aged 74)

theatrical director writer playwright actor film actor

Harvey Forbes Fierstein is an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter, known for his distinctive gravelly voice. He gained notice for his theater work in Torch Song Trilogy, winning both the Tony Award for Best Play and Best Actor in a Play. He went on to win the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for La Cage aux Folles,...

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81. Rob Zombie

1965-. (aged 61)

director film screenwriter film actor songwriter voice actor

Robert Bartleh Cummings, known professionally as Rob Zombie, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, filmmaker, and actor. His music and lyrics are notable for their horror and sci-fi themes, and his live shows have been praised for their elaborate shock rock theatricality. He has sold an estimated 15 million albums worldwide. He rose to fame as a founding member...

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82. Robert Redford

1936-2025 (aged 89)

stage actor film director actor executive producer voice actor

Charles Robert Redford Jr. was an American actor, director and producer, celebrated for his magnetic presence as a leading man during the American New Wave. Across a career spanning more than six decades, Redford earned widespread recognition and numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and five Golden Globe Awards, (including a Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1994)....

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83. Terrence Howard

1969-. (aged 57)

actor television actor film actor television producer voice actor

Terrence Dashon Howard is an American actor performing on film and television. He has received a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two Independent Spirit Awards.

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84. Miguel Chevalier

1959-. (aged 67)

visual artist multimedia artist artist

Miguel Chevalier is a French digital and virtual artist. Since 1978, Miguel Chevalier has used computers as a means of expression in the field of the visual arts. He has established himself internationally as one of the pioneers of virtual and digital art.

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85. Elizabeth Crowley

1977-. (aged 49)

politician

Elizabeth S. Crowley is an American politician. She was previously the New York City Council member for the 30th district from 2009 to 2017, representing the neighborhoods of Glendale, Maspeth, Middle Village, Ridgewood, and parts of Woodside and Woodhaven, in the borough of Queens. Crowley is both the first woman and first Democrat to hold the seat. Crowley was a...

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86. Beverly Pepper

1922-2020 (aged 98)

painter sculptor artist land artist

Beverly Pepper was an American sculptor known for her monumental works, site specific and land art. She remained independent from any particular art movement. She lived in Italy, primarily in Todi, since the 1950s.

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87. Elliot Tiber

1935-2016 (aged 81)

writer painter librettist screenwriter

Elliot Michael Tiber was an artist, professor, and screenwriter who wrote a memoir about the Woodstock Festival held in Bethel, New York in 1969. He claimed responsibility for the relocation of the festival after a permit for it was withdrawn by the zoning board of a nearby town.

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88. Conor Mccreedy

1987-. (aged 39)

businessperson painter

Conor Matthew Mccreedy is a contemporary artist, conservationist and collector based in Switzerland. In his work, his depiction of abstraction is linked to chaos theory. The colour blue is prominent in his works.

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89. Cheryl D. Miller

1952-. (aged 74)

writer designer

Cheryl D. Holmes Miller is an American graphic designer, Christian minister, writer, artist, theologian, and decolonizing historian. She is known for her contributions to racial and gender equality in the graphic design field, and establishing one of the first black-women-owned design firms in New York City in 1984.

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90. Robert Wilson

1936-. (aged 90)

researcher astronomer physicist

Robert Woodrow Wilson is an American astronomer who shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arno Penzias "for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation".

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91. Alison Knowles

1933-2025 (aged 92)

draftsperson installation artist performance artist visual artist painter

Alison Knowles was an American visual artist known for her installations, performances, soundworks, and publications. Knowles was a founding member of the Fluxus movement, an international network of artists who aspired to merge different artistic media and disciplines. Criteria that have come to distinguish her work as an artist are the arena of performance, the indeterminacy of her event scores...

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92. Deborah Willis

1948-. (aged 78)

historian photographer art historian

Deborah Willis is a contemporary African-American artist, photographer, curator of photography, photographic historian, author, and educator. Among her awards and honors, she is a 2000 MacArthur Fellow. She is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts of New York University. In 2024, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.

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93. Peter Max

1937-. (aged 89)

painter graphic designer designer

Peter Max is a German-American artist known for using bright colors in his work. Works by Max are associated with the visual arts and culture of the 1960s, particularly psychedelic art and pop art.

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94. Brad Lander

1969-. (aged 57)

politician

Bradford Scott Lander is an American politician and urban planner who served as the 45th New York City comptroller from 2022 until 2025. A progressive Democrat, Lander was elected to the New York City Council in 2009, serving for twelve years, later serving as Deputy Leader for Policy. His district was partly based in Brooklyn. Lander was elected city comptroller...

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95. Cristina Iglesias

1956-. (aged 70)

installation artist sculptor teacher artist

Cristina Iglesias is a Spanish installation artist and sculptor living and working in Torrelodones, Madrid. She works with many materials, including steel, water, glass, bronze, bamboo, straw. On January 20, 2016, she was awarded the Tambor del Oro in San Sebastian. Iglesias was the first Spanish woman invited to exhibit her work at the Folkestone Triennial in 2011. She is...

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96. Ryszard Horowitz

1939-. (aged 87)

singer photographer graphic artist

Ryszard Horowitz is a Polish-born American photographer recognized as a pioneer of special effects photography that predates digital imaging.

97. Max Weber

1881-1961 (aged 80)

writer painter sculptor draftsperson

Maximilian Carl Emil Weber was a German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist who was one of the central figures in the development of sociology and the social sciences more generally. His ideas continue to influence social theory and research.

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98. Agnes Lawrence Pelton

1881-1961 (aged 80)

painter visual artist artist

Agnes Lawrence Pelton was a modernist painter who was born in Germany and moved to the United States as a child. She studied art in the United States and Europe. She made portraits of Pueblo Native Americans, desert landscapes and still lifes. Pelton's work evolved through at least three distinct themes: her early "Imaginative Paintings," art of the American Southwest...

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99. Stefan Sagmeister

1962-. (aged 64)

graphic designer designer installation artist typographer illustrator

Stefan Sagmeister is an Austrian graphic designer, storyteller, and typographer based in New York City. In 1993, Sagmeister founded his company, Sagmeister Inc., to create designs for the music industry. He has designed album covers for Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Jay Z, Aerosmith, Talking Heads, Brian Eno and Pat Metheny. From 2011 until 2019 he...

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100. Mickalene Thomas

1971-. (aged 55)

painter collagist photographer television producer

Mickalene Thomas is an African-American contemporary visual artist best known as a painter of complex works using rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. Thomas's collage work is inspired from popular art histories and movements, including Impressionism, Cubism, Dada, the Harlem Renaissance, and selected works by the Afro-British painter Chris Ofili. Her work draws from Western art history, pop art, and visual culture...

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