List of honorary members of the Royal Academy of Arts

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A private view of an academy exhibition at the time of the first Hon.RA, painted by William Frith , a student of the Royal Academy, 1883, oil on canvas, 60 × 113 cm

The list of honorary members of the Royal Academy of Arts includes all Honorary Royal Academicians ( Hon.RA ), including Hon.RA, of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

A membership category of Honorary Foreign Academicians was established in 1868 and the title was first awarded in 1869, then with interruptions again from 1882 until today (as of 2013) to a total of 78 artists, including seven Germans.

For a list of the full members, the Royal Academicians (RA), see List of Members of the Royal Academy of Arts .

Surname Life
data		 Active as Hon.RA
since		 origin
Marina Abramović 1946– Performance artist 2011 YU
Ai Weiwei 1957– Concept artist,
sculptor, painter 		2011 CN
Tadao Andō 1941– architect 2002 JP
Balthus 1908-2001 painter FR
Albert Bartholomé 1848-1928 Sculptor, painter 1921 FR
Georg Baselitz 1938– painter 1999 DE
Albert Besnard 1849-1934 painter 1921 FR
Pierre Bonnard 1867-1947 painter 1940 FR
Léon Bonnat 1833-1922 painter 1904 FR
Jules Breton 1827-1906 painter 1899 FR
Marc Chagall 1887-1985 painter RU
Nikos Chatzikyriakos-Ghikas 1906-1994 sculptor GR
Eduardo Chillida 1924-2002 sculptor IT
Pascal Adolphe Dagnan-Bouveret 1852-1929 painter 1908 FR
Edouard Details 1848-1912 painter 1910 FR
Richard Diebenkorn 1922-1993 painter US
Paul Dubois 1829-1905 Sculptor, painter 1896 FR
Jean Dubuffet 1901-1985 painter FR
Marlene Dumas 1953– painter 2013 SA
Ralph Erskine 1914-2005 Architect, urban planner GB
Jean-Louis Forain 1852-1931 Painter, graphic artist 1930 FR
Helen Frankenthaler 1928-2011 painter FR
Emmanuel Frémiet 1824-1910 sculptor 1904 FR
Louis Gallait 1810-1887 painter 1869 BE
Frank Gehry 1929– architect 1998 US
Jean-Léon Gérôme 1824-1904 Painter, sculptor 1869 FR
Cass Gilbert 1859-1934 architect 1930 US
Walter Gropius 1883-1969 architect 1967 DE
Eugène Guillaume
 1822-1905 sculptor 1869 FR
Stanley William Hayter 1901-1988 Painter, etcher, graphic artist GB
Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont 1797-1892 Engraver 1869 FR
Rebecca Horn 1944– Action artist, sculptor 2009 DE
Arata Isozaki 1931– architect 1994 JP
Jozef Israëls 1824-1911 Painter, eraser NL
Jasper Johns 1930– Painter, graphic artist, sculptor 1989 US
Ellsworth Kelly 1923-2015 Painter, sculptor 2001 US
Anselm Kiefer 1945– Painter, sculptor 1996 DE
Per Kirkeby 1938– Painter, sculptor, architect 2011 DK
Ludwig Knaus 1829-1910 painter 1882 DE
Oskar Kokoschka 1886-1980 painter AT
Willem de Kooning 1904-1997 painter US
Jeff Koons 1955– Painter, sculptor 2010 US
Jean Paul Laurens 1838-1921 Painter, eraser, sculptor FR
Daniel Libeskind 1946– Architect, urban planner 2003 US
Roy Lichtenstein 1923-1997 painter US
Giacomo Manzù 1908-1991 Painter, sculptor, medalist IT
Roberto Matta 1911-2002 painter CL
Ernest Meissonier 1815-1891 painter 1869 FR
Adolph Menzel 1815-1905 painter 1896 DE
Antonin Mercié 1845-1916 Sculptor, painter FR
Carl Milles 1875-1955 sculptor 1940 SV
Joan Miró 1893-1983 Sculptor, painter, graphic artist ES, Catalans
Bruce Nauman 1941– Concept artist, painter, sculptor 2001 US
Pier Luigi Nervi 1891-1979 Architect, civil engineer 1967 IT
Ragnar Ostberg 1866-1945 architect 1930 SV
Mimmo Paladino 1948– Painter, object artist 1999 IT
Ieoh Ming Pei 1917– architect 1993 US
Renzo Piano 1937– architect 2007 IT
Robert Rauschenberg 1925-2008 Painter, graphic artist, object artist US
Edward Ruscha 1937– Painter, graphic artist 2004 US
Augustus Saint-Gaudens 1848-1907 Sculptor, medalist US
Julian Schnabel 1951– Painter, film director 2010 US
André Dunoyer de Segonzac 1884-1974 Painter, graphic artist 1947 FR
Richard Serra 1939– sculptor 1995 US
Josep Lluís Sert 1902-1983 Architect, urban planner ES, Catalans
Cindy Sherman 1954– Concept artist, photo artist 2010 US
Lucien Simon 1861-1945 painter 1930 FR
Frank Stella 1936– Painter, sculptor, object artist 1993 US
Antoni Tàpies 1923-2012 Painter, graphic artist, sculptor ES, Catalans
Rufino Tamayo 1899-1991 painter MX
Ivar Tengbom 1878-1968 architect 1947 SV
Rosemarie Trockel 1952– sculptor 2013 DE
James Turrell 1943– Land art, installation artist 2002 US
Cy Twombly 1928-2011 Painter, sculptor US
Jørn Utzon 1918-2008 architect DK
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva 1908-1992 Painter, graphic artist, glass artist 1988 PT, FR
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc 1814-1879 architect 1869 FR
Andrew Wyeth 1917-2009 painter 1980 US

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