David Hockney has died at the age of 88.

The British artist, who hailed from Bradford, West Yorkshire, passed away at his home on Thursday (11.06.29), just weeks before his 89th birthday, it has been confirmed.

The news was shared in a statement which read: "The celebrated British artist David Hockney, one of the most important figures in contemporary art in both the 20th and 21st centuries, passed away peacefully at home on 11 June 2026, one month short of his 89th birthday."

The revoluntionary artist worked in mediums including paint, photography and even iPads and turned his talents to etchings, lithographs and stained glass windows through his lengthy career.

He was born in 1937 and single-mindedly devoted to his art from a young age eventually winning a place at the Royal College of Art in London. However, despite being the establishment's star student, he refused to write the one essay he needed to in order to graduate and so failed his finals, but a backlash forced the college to back down and he was given both his degree and its prestigious Gold Medal.

He left the UK for Los Angeles in 1964, where he swapped his oil paints in favour of bright acrylics, and made a name for himself with his swimming pool paintings, with one selling for almost £70 million at auction back in 2018, and pictures of the buildings around him, using his art to express his homosexuality, which was still illegal at the time.

While working on one of his paintings in California, David used a Polaroid camera to take a series of reference pictures, which led to the next stage of his career, photocollage - or 'joiners' as he termed them - which saw him assemble multiple photographs together to explore his interest in perspective.

In later years, he worked on set and costume design for operas and ballets and was fascinated by changes in technology, embracing the photocopier, the fax machine, the printer, and even the iPad, on which he created digital paintings.

He told Interview magazine in 2013: "I'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures.

"I'm interested in anything that makes a picture."

David - an avid smoker throughout his life - returned to Yorkshire in 2005 but considered giving up art almost a decade later after his 23-year-old assistant Dominic Elliott died after consuming drain cleaner and recreational drugs including ecstasy and cocaine, with the tragedy leaving the artist unable to draw.

The outspoken painter is believed to have rejected a knighthood on multiple occasions and declined an invitation to paint the late Queen Elizabeth's portrait. However, he did accept the Order of Merit, the most prestigious award for high achievement, because he felt it ungrateful to decline what he thought was a personal gift from Queen Elizabeth II.

A huge retrospective of his work opened in Paris last year, and a show is planned at the Tate Modern in 2027 to mark what would have been David's 90th birthday.