This is a partial list of Royal Academicians (post-nominal: RA), academicians of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. A full list is available on the web pages of the Royal Academy Collections.
Name | Elected | Notes | Ref. | |
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1768 | Foundation member | |||
1768 | Foundation member | |||
1768 | Foundation member | |||
1768 | Foundation member; Keeper 1783–90 | |||
1768 | Foundation member | |||
1768 | Foundation member | |||
1768 | Foundation member; first Treasurer 1768–96 | |||
1768 | Foundation member | |||
1768 | Foundation member | |||
1768 | Foundation member; Professor of Architecture 1798–1805 | |||
1768 | Foundation member | |||
1768 | Foundation member | |||
1768 | Foundation member | |||
1768 | Foundation member; first Academy librarian 1770–1776 | |||
1768 | Foundation member | |||
1768 | Foundation member | |||
1768 | Foundation member | |||
1768 | Foundation member; first Keeper 1768–83 | |||
1768 | Foundation member | |||
1768 | Foundation member; first Secretary 1768–88 | |||
1768 | Foundation member; first Professor of Painting 1768–82 | |||
1768 | Foundation member; President 1768–1792 | |||
1768 | Foundation member; Secretary 1788–1810 | |||
1768 | Foundation member | |||
1768 | Foundation member; first Professor of Architecture 1768–98 | |||
1768 | Foundation member; Librarian 1792–93 | |||
1768 | Foundation member | |||
1768 | Foundation member | |||
1768 | Foundation member; first Professor of Perspective 1768–1786; Librarian 1782–86 | |||
1768 | Foundation member; President 1792–1805 & 1806–20 | |||
1768 | Foundation member; Librarian 1776–1782 | |||
1768 | Foundation member; Librarian 1786–1790; Keeper 1790–1803 | |||
1768 | Foundation member | |||
1768 | Foundation member | |||
1769 | Nominated member | |||
1769 | Nominated member | |||
Edward Burch | 1771 | Librarian 1794–1814 | ||
1771 | ||||
1772 | ||||
1773 | Professor of Painting 1782–1799 | |||
1777 | Honorary Chaplain 1784–1788 | |||
1779 | ||||
1778 | ||||
1781 | ||||
1781 | ||||
1783 | ||||
1784 | ||||
1785 | ||||
1785 | ||||
1785 | President 1805–1806 | |||
1787 | ||||
1787 | ||||
1788 | Professor of Painting 1805–1807 | |||
1788 | ||||
1789 | ||||
1790 | Professor of Painting 1799–1805 & 1810–25; Keeper 1804–1825 | |||
1791 | ||||
1791 | ||||
1791 | Treasurer 1796–1820 | |||
1791 | ||||
1793 | ||||
1793 | ||||
1794 | President 1820–30 | |||
1794 | ||||
1794 | Librarian 1814–1834 | |||
1795 | ||||
1797 | ||||
1798 | Associate RA: 1793 | |||
1799 | ||||
1799 | Professor of Painting 1807–1809 | |||
1800 | first Professor of Sculpture 1810–26 | |||
1800 | President 1830–50 | |||
1802 | Professor of Architecture 1806–37 | |||
1802 | Professor of Perspective 1807–37 | |||
1804 | Keeper 1825–27 | |||
1806 | ||||
1807 | ||||
1808 | Secretary 1811–47; Professor of Painting 1833–1847 | |||
1808 | Professor of Painting 1825–32 | |||
1810 | ||||
1811 | ||||
1811 | ||||
1811 | ||||
1811 | Professor of Sculpture 1827–56 | |||
1811 | Treasurer 1820–50 | |||
1812 | ||||
1813 | ||||
1814 | ||||
1815 | ||||
1815 | ||||
1816 | ||||
1817 | ||||
1818 | ||||
1819 | Keeper 1827–39 | |||
1820 | Librarian 1840–42 | |||
1820 | ||||
1821 | ||||
1822 | ||||
1822 | ||||
1823 | ||||
1824 | Librarian 1834–1840; Keeper 1840–50 | |||
1824 | ||||
1826 | Professor of Painting 1847–52 | |||
1826 | Librarian 1856–64 | |||
1826 | Professor of Architecture 1837–39 | |||
1828 | ||||
1829 | ||||
1830 | Librarian 1842–44; President 1850–65 | |||
1831 | ||||
1835 | ||||
1835 | ||||
1836 | Professor of Architecture 1839–59 | |||
1836 | ||||
1838 | ||||
1838 | ||||
1838 | Librarian 1844–55 | |||
1840 | ||||
1840 | Professor of Painting 1854–63; Librarian 1864–81 | |||
1840 | ||||
1841 | ||||
1841 | Treasurer 1850–61 | |||
1841 | ||||
1842 | ||||
1843 | ||||
1844 | Secretary 1847–1873; Professor of Perspective 1852–1860 | |||
1845 | Keeper 1851–73 | |||
1846 | ||||
1848 | Professor of Painting 1866–75 | |||
1848 | ||||
1849 | Professor of Sculpture 1857–68 | |||
1851 | ||||
1851 | President 1866–78 | |||
1851 | ||||
1853 | ||||
1855 | ||||
1857 | Keeper 1873–1887 | |||
1858 | ||||
1859 | Treasurer 1861–1874; Professor of Architecture 1860–1865 | |||
1860 | ||||
1860 | Professor of Architecture 1866–1873 | |||
1863 | ||||
1863 | ||||
1863 | President 1896 | |||
1863 | Professor of Sculpture 1868–76 | |||
1864 | Treasurer 1882–1897 | |||
1866 | ||||
1866 | ||||
1867 | Keeper 1887–98 | |||
1867 | ||||
1867 | ||||
1868 | President 1878–96 | |||
1869 | Professor of Architecture 1873–80; Treasurer 1874–80 | |||
1869 | ||||
1870 | ||||
1871 | ||||
1871 | ||||
1871 | Professor of Architecture 1880–81; Treasurer 1880–81 | |||
1871 | ||||
1872 | Professor of Painting 1875–82 | |||
1874 | Professor of Sculpture 1877–78 | |||
1876 | ||||
1876 | President 1896–1918 | |||
1877 | ||||
1877 | Treasurer 1882 | |||
1878 | ||||
1878 | Librarian 1896–1911 | |||
1879 | ||||
1879 | Librarian 1882–95; Professor of Painting 1882–95 | |||
1880 | ||||
1880 | ||||
1880 | ||||
1881 | ||||
1881 | ||||
1881 | ||||
1882 | ||||
1881 | ||||
1883 | ||||
1885 | Treasurer 1897–1901 | |||
1887 | ||||
1887 | ||||
1888 | ||||
1890 | Professor of Painting 1899–1900 & 1906–1909 | |||
1891 | ||||
1891 | President 1924–1928 | |||
1891 | Keeper 1911–1920; Librarian 1911–1920 | |||
1892 | Professor of Sculpture 1900–1904 | |||
1894 | Professor of Painting 1900–1903 | |||
1895 | ||||
1895 | Professor of Painting 1895–1899 & 1909–1911 | |||
1895 | ||||
1896 | Keeper 1898–1911 | |||
1896 | Treasurer 1901–1912 | |||
1897 | ||||
1897 | ||||
1898 | ||||
1898 | Professor of Architecture 1887–1905 | |||
1898 | ||||
1902 | ||||
1902 | ||||
1903 | Treasurer 1912–1919; President 1919–24 | |||
1903 | ||||
1905 | ||||
1908 | Professor of Painting 1903–1906 | |||
1907 | ||||
1909 | ||||
1909 | ||||
1909 | ||||
1910 | ||||
1910 | ||||
1911 | ||||
1912 | ||||
1914 | Professor of Architecture 1907–11 | |||
1913 | ||||
1914 | Professor of Perspective 1914–19 | |||
1914 | ||||
1915 | ||||
1915 | Keeper 1920–26 | |||
1917 | ||||
1917 | Professor of Sculpture 1907–1911 | |||
1919 | ||||
1919 | ||||
1919 | ||||
1919 | ||||
1920 | ||||
1920 | President 1928–1938 | |||
1920 | ||||
1920 | President 1938–1944 | |||
1922 | ||||
1922 | ||||
1924 | ||||
1925 | Keeper 1945–1949 | |||
1925 | ||||
1925 | President 1944–1949 | |||
1926 | Keeper 1927–42 | |||
1928 | ||||
1928 | ||||
1930 | Keeper 1943–1945; President 1949–1954 | |||
1930 | Treasurer 1932–40 | |||
1932 | ||||
1932 | ||||
1932 | ||||
1933 | Associate RA: 1922 | |||
1933 | ||||
1933 | ||||
1933 | Treasurer 1919–32 | |||
1934 | ||||
1934 | ||||
1934 | ||||
1935 | ||||
1935 | ||||
1936 | ||||
1936 | Keeper 1949–1964 | |||
1937 | ||||
1937 | Treasurer 1940–42 | |||
1938 | ||||
1938 | President 1966–76 | |||
1940 | President 1956–66 | |||
1942 | ||||
1942 | ||||
1942 | Treasurer 1942–54 | |||
1942 | ||||
1943 | ||||
1943 | ||||
1944 | Professor of Architecture 1946–61; President 1954–56 | |||
1944 | ||||
1947 | Treasurer 1954–58 | |||
1948 | Honorary Academician Extraordinary | |||
1949 | ||||
1949 | ||||
1950 | ||||
1951 | ||||
1951 | ||||
1952 | ||||
1953 | ||||
1953 | Treasurer 1958–1962 | |||
1953 | ||||
1955 | ||||
1955 | ||||
1958 | ||||
1960 | Keeper 1964–1985 | |||
1960 | Professor of Architecture 1961–1967; Treasurer 1962–1964 | |||
1961 | Treasurer 1964 | |||
1961 | ||||
1962 | ||||
1962 | ||||
1962 | Treasurer 1965 | |||
1963 | ||||
1963 | Treasurer 1965–70 | |||
1964 | ||||
1965 | Uncle of Peter Freeth | |||
1965 | ||||
1966 | ||||
1966 | ||||
1968 | ||||
1968 | ||||
1968 | ||||
1968 | Treasurer 1970–1975 | |||
1969 | Treasurer 1976–1984; President 1984–1993 | |||
1969 | ||||
1969 | ||||
1969 | ||||
1970 | Treasurer 1975–1976; President 1976–1984 | |||
1970 | ||||
1970 | ||||
1971 | ||||
1971 | ||||
1972 | Keeper 1986–1995; Professor of Painting 1986 & 1995–1999 | |||
1972 | ||||
1972 | ||||
1972 | Professor of Architecture 1967–1975 | |||
1972 | ||||
1972 | ||||
1973 | ||||
1973 | Keeper 1985–1986 | |||
1974 | ||||
1974 | Professor of Sculpture 1985–1989 | |||
1974 | ||||
1975 | ||||
1975 | Professor of Architecture 1975–88 | |||
1975 | ||||
1976 | ||||
1976 | ||||
1977 | ||||
1977 | ||||
1977 | Treasurer 1985–1995 | |||
1978 | ||||
1979 | ||||
1979 | ||||
1979 | ||||
1981 | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2002–2004 | |||
1981 | ||||
1982 | ||||
1984 | ||||
1983 | Professor of Architecture 1988–1995 | |||
1983 | ||||
1984 | ||||
1985 | President 1993–1999 | |||
1985 | ||||
1985 | ||||
1986 | ||||
1986 | ||||
1986 | Treasurer 1995–1999 | |||
1986 | ||||
1988 | ||||
1988 | ||||
1988 | ||||
1988 | Professor of Sculpture 1989–1999; President 1999–2004 | |||
1989 | ||||
1989 | Honorary Curator 1985–1991 | |||
1989 | ||||
1989 | ||||
1989 | ||||
1990 | ||||
1991 | Professor of Sculpture 2007–2010 | |||
1991 | Professor of Printmaking | |||
1991 | ||||
1991 | ||||
1991 | ||||
1991 | ||||
Kenneth Draper | 1991 | |||
Peter Freeth | 26 June 1991 | Elected ARA: 30 May 1990 Nephew of Andrew Freeth | [1] | |
1991 | ||||
1991 | Treasurer 2000–2014 | |||
1991 | ||||
1991 | Professor of Perspective 2004–2012 | |||
1991 | Professor of Painting 1999–2010 | |||
Bill Jacklin | 1991 | |||
1991 | ||||
1991 | ||||
1991 | ||||
1991 | ||||
1991 | Keeper 1995–98 | |||
1991 | ||||
1991 | ||||
1991 | ||||
1991 | ||||
1991 | ||||
1992 | ||||
1992 | ||||
1992 | ||||
1992 | ||||
1992 | Keeper 1998–2004 | |||
1993 | ||||
1994 | ||||
1994 | ||||
1994 | ||||
1994 | President 2004–11 | |||
1995 | Treasurer 2014–2018 | |||
1995 | ||||
1996 | ||||
1996 | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2000 – 2002; President 2011–2019 | |||
1996 | ||||
1996 | ||||
1997 | ||||
1998 | ||||
1998 | ||||
1998 | Professor of Sculpture 2000–2007 | |||
1998 | Professor of Architecture 2004–2012 | |||
1999 | ||||
1999 | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2018–Present | |||
1999 | Keeper 2004–2011 | |||
1999 | ||||
2000 | ||||
2000 | ||||
2001 | ||||
2001 | First female Keeper, 2011 – 2017 | |||
2001 | Professor of Architecture 2013–2017 | |||
2001 | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2004–2006 | |||
2001 | ||||
2002 | Professor of Painting 2011–2015 | |||
2002 | Professor of Painting 2011–2015 | |||
2003 | ||||
2003 | ||||
2003 | ||||
2003 | ||||
2004 | ||||
2004 | Professor of Perspective 2012–2020 | |||
2005 | ||||
2005 | ||||
2005 | ||||
2005 | ||||
2006 | ||||
2006 | ||||
2006 | ||||
2006 | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2016–18 | |||
2006 | Treasurer 2018–Present | |||
2006 | Professor of Sculpture 2011–15 | |||
2007 | ||||
2007 | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2011–13 | |||
2007 | ||||
John Carter | 2007 | |||
2007 | ||||
2007 | ||||
2008 | ||||
2008 | ||||
2008 | Eranda Professor of Drawing 2014–16 | |||
2009 | ||||
2009 | ||||
2009 | ||||
2009 | ||||
2010 | ||||
2010 | Professor of Painting 2019–2020 | |||
2010 | ||||
2011 | ||||
2011 | ||||
2011 | ||||
2011 | ||||
2012 | ||||
2012 | ||||
2012 | ||||
2013 | ||||
2013 | Professor of Painting 2018–2019 | |||
2013 | Professor of Sculpture 2019–Present | |||
2013 | ||||
2013 | ||||
2013 | ||||
2013 | ||||
2013 | ||||
2013 | ||||
2013 | ||||
2014 | ||||
2014 | Professor of Sculpture 2015–2019; Keeper 2020-Present | |||
2014 | ||||
2014 | ||||
2014 | ||||
2014 | Keeper 2017–2019; President 2019–Present | |||
2015 | ||||
2015 | Professor of Architecture 2017–Present | |||
2015 | ||||
2015 | ||||
2015 | Honorary Surveyor | |||
2016 | ||||
2016 | ||||
2017 | ||||
2017 | Professor of Perspective 2020–Present | |||
2017 | ||||
2017 | Left the RA in 2020[2] | |||
2018 | ||||
2018 | Professor of Painting 2020–Present | |||
2018 | ||||
2019 | ||||
2019 | ||||
Rana Begum | 2019 | |||
2021 | ||||
2021 | ||||
2021 | ||||
2021 | ||||
2022 | ||||
2022 | ||||
2022 | ||||
2022 | ||||
2022 | ||||
2022 | ||||
2022 | ||||
2022 | ||||
2022 | ||||
28 March 2023 | [3] | |||
Stephanie Macdonald and Tom Emerson (6a architects) | 28 March 2023 | [4] | ||
31 May 2023 | [5] | |||
31 May 2023 | [6] | |||
14 December 2023 | [7] | |||
14 December 2023 | [8] | |||
19 March 2024 | [9] | |||
19 March 2024 | [10] | |||
6 June 2024 | [11] | |||
6 June 2024 | [12] |
This is a partial list of Honorary Royal Academicians (Post-nominal: HonRA), academicians of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. A full list is available on the web pages of the Royal Academy Collections.
Louis Gallait | 15 December 1869 | Painting | [13] | ||
Jean-Léon Gérôme | 15 December 1869 | Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking | [14] | ||
Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume | 15 December 1869 | Sculpture | [15] | ||
Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont | 15 December 1869 | Painting and Printmaking | [16] | ||
Ernest Meissonier | 15 December 1869 | Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking | [17] | ||
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc | 15 December 1869 | Architecture | [18] | ||
Ludwig Knaus | 29 December 1882 | Painting | [19] | ||
Adolph Menzel | 12 February 1896 | Painting, Printmaking, and Illustration | [20] | ||
Jules Breton | 31 January 1899 | Painting | [21] | ||
Léon Bonnat | 27 January 1904 | Painting | [22] | ||
Emmanuel Frémiet | 27 January 1904 | Sculpture | [23] | ||
Jozef Israëls | 9 January 1906 | Painting and Printmaking | [24] | ||
Augustus Saint-Gaudens | 9 January 1906 | Sculpture | [25] | ||
Antonin Mercié | 23 January 1908 | Sculpture and Painting | [26] | ||
Jean-Paul Laurens | 27 January 1909 | Painting | [27] | ||
Albert Bartholomé | 1 March 1921 | Sculpture and Painting | [28] | ||
Paul-Albert Besnard | 1 March 1921 | Painting | [29] | ||
Ragnar Östberg | 10 June 1930 | Architecture | [30] | ||
Cass Gilbert | 5 December 1930 | Architecture | [31] | ||
Lucien Simon | 5 December 1930 | Painting | [32] | ||
Pierre Bonnard | 26 April 1940 | Painting, Printmaking, and Lithography | [33] | ||
Carl Milles | 26 April 1940 | Sculpture | [34] | ||
André Dunoyer de Segonzac | 24 April 1947 | Painting, Book illustration, and Printmaking | [35] | ||
Ivar Tengbom | 24 April 1947 | Architecture | [36] | ||
Walter Gropius | 20 April 1967 | Architecture | [37] | ||
Oskar Kokoschka | 24 April 1970 | Painting | [38] | ||
Giacomo Manzù | 24 April 1970 | Sculpture and Painting | |||
Marc Chagall | 9 May 1979 | Painting | |||
Joan Miró | 22 May 1980 | Painting and Sculpture | |||
Josep Lluís Sert | 22 May 1980 | Architecture | [39] | ||
Balthus | 17 December 1981 | Painting | |||
Stanley William Hayter | 17 December 1981 | Printmaking, Etching, Line engraving, and Painting | |||
Eduardo Chillida | 18 May 1983 | Sculpture | |||
Willem de Kooning | 18 May 1983 | Painting | |||
Jean Dubuffet | 17 January 1985 | Painting | |||
Ralph Erskine (architect) | 17 January 1985 | Architecture and Town-planning | |||
Rufino Tamayo | 20 May 1985 | Painting | [40] | ||
Jørn Utzon | 20 May 1985 | Architecture | |||
Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas | 11 December 1986 | Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Theatre design, and Book illustration | [41] | ||
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva | 4 May 1988 | Painting | |||
Jasper Johns | 7 December 1989 | Painting and Printmaking | |||
Richard Diebenkorn | 27 May 1992 | Painting | |||
Antoni Tàpies | 27 May 1992 | Painting | |||
I. M. Pei | 10 December 1993 | Architecture | |||
Frank Stella | 10 December 1993 | Painting | |||
Roy Lichtenstein | 23 May 1994 | Painting | |||
Arata Isozaki | 23 May 1994 | Architecture | |||
Richard Serra | 22 May 1995 | Sculpture | |||
Anselm Kiefer | 29 May 1996 | Painting, Sculpture, Installation art, and Artists' books | |||
Andrew Wyeth | 29 May 1996 | Painting | |||
Roberto Matta | 19 May 1997 | [42] | |||
Frank Gehry | 21 May 1998 | Architecture | |||
Cy Twombly | 21 May 1998 | Painting | |||
Mimmo Paladino | 26 May 1999 | Sculpture, Painting, and Printmaking | |||
Georg Baselitz | 26 May 1999 | Painting and Sculpture | |||
Robert Rauschenberg | 18 May 2000 | Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking | |||
Ellsworth Kelly | 24 May 2001 | ||||
Bruce Nauman | 24 May 2001 | Sculpture, Photography, Video art, Drawing, Printmaking, and Performance | |||
Tadao Ando | 29 May 2002 | Architecture | |||
James Turrell | 29 May 2002 | Sculpture and Installation art | |||
Daniel Libeskind | 23 May 2003 | Architecture | |||
Edward Ruscha | 26 May 2004 | Painting, Printmaking, Photography, Drawing, Film making, and Artists' books | |||
Renzo Piano | 31 May 2007 | Architecture | |||
Rebecca Horn | 10 March 2009 | Sculpture, Installation art, Performance, and Film making | |||
Julian Schnabel | 8 December 2009 | Painting and Film making | |||
Jeff Koons | 16 March 2010 | Painting and Sculpture | |||
Cindy Sherman | 16 March 2010 | Photography | |||
Ai Weiwei | 26 May 2011 | Sculpture, Installation art, Architecture, and Film making | |||
Per Kirkeby | 28 May 2011 | Painting and Sculpture | |||
Marina Abramović | 27 September 2011 | Performance | |||
Helen Frankenthaler | 27 September 2011 | ||||
Rosemarie Trockel | 13 March 2013 | Sculpture and Painting | |||
Marlene Dumas | 13 March 2013 | Painting and Drawing | |||
Peter Zumthor | 12 March 2014 | Architecture | |||
El Anatsui | 12 March 2014 | Sculpture | |||
William Kentridge | 10 December 2014 | Sculpture, Film making, Graphic design, Engraving, and Animation | |||
Jim Dine | 10 December 2014 | Painting, Watercolour, Assemblage, Happenings, Lithography, Photography, Sculpture, and Performance art | |||
Olafur Eliasson | 9 March 2016 | Sculpture and Installation art | |||
Jenny Holzer | 9 March 2016 | Printmaking and Sculpture | |||
Bill Viola | 1 June 2017 | Installation art, Video art, and Film making | |||
Kiki Smith | 1 June 2017 | Sculpture, Printmaking, and Artists' books | |||
Wim Wenders | 19 March 2018 | Film making and Photography | |||
Laurie Anderson | 19 March 2018 | Performance and Film making | |||
Carmen Herrera | 30 May 2019 | Painting | |||
Kara Walker | 30 May 2019 | Painting, Printmaking, Illustration, Film making, and Silhouettist | |||
Pipilotti Rist | 9 September 2021 | Video art and Installation art | |||
Ellen Gallagher | 9 September 2021 | Painting, Video art, and Film making | |||
13 December 2022 | [43] | ||||
14 December 2023 | [44] | ||||
14 December 2023 | [45] |