21st-century painters

'''Jean-Pierre Basilic Dantor Franck Étienne d'Argent (; 12 April 1936 – 20 February 2025), known by his pen name Frankétienne''', was a Haitian writer, poet, playwright, and painter. He is recognized as one of Haiti's leading writers and playwrights in both French and Haitian Creole, and is "known as the father of Haitian letters". He was a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009, made a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of the Arts and Letters), and was named UNESCO Artist for Peace in 2010.

Ethiopian artist (1932-2012)

Motswana artist, storyteller and translator (1934–2008)

Ni-Vanuatu anthropologist

Peruvian painter (1925-2017)

Paraguayan artist (1921-2008)

Czech painter and writer (born 1944)

Visual artist from Cameroon

Senegalese painter, sculptor and actor (1945 – 2017)

Armenian artist

Montenegrin artist

Saudi Arabian visual artist

Chilean sculptor, painter and visual artist (1916-2014)

Palestinian artist-painter

Senegalese artist (1957-2015)

Sammarinese painter, ceramist and politician

Jamaican painter (1931-2016)

Lebanese painter, subsequently Buddhist monk

Ugandan painter and printmaker (born 1938)

Congolese photographer, filmmaker and painter

Togolese musician

South African artist

Armenian painter, designer, coordinator of art exhibitions

Bangladeshi artist, printmaker, and writer.

Salvadoran painter

( 1954 - 2019 ) is a Saudi painter and pioneer of plastic arts

Chilean painter and photographer (born 1934)

Haitian artist

Austrian artist

Haitian painter

Dominican Republic artist

painter and ceramist (1920-2011)

painter

Senegalese painter (1955-2019)

Ugandan artist