James (born 1949) painter Charles L. Sallée Jr. (1923–2006), painter Reginald Sanders (1921–2001), visual artist Raymond Saunders (born 1934), painter Augusta Savage (1892–1962), sculptor Dread Scott (born 1965), performance, photography, installation, screen-printing and video John T. Scott (1940–2007), artist Joyce J. Scott (born 1948), sculptor Lorenzo Scott (born 1934), painter William Edouard Scott (1884–1964), painter Charles Searles (1937-2004), painter, sculptor Charles Sebree (1914–1985), painter Thomas Sills (1914–2000), painter Gary Simmons (born 1964), artist Lorna Simpson (born 1960), artist Merton Simpson (1928–2013), painter William Simpson (1818–1872), portrait painter Ferrari Sheppard (born 1983), painter Amy Sherald (born 1973), painter Carroll Sockwell (1943–1992), abstract painter Jeff Sonhouse (born 1968), painter Cauleen Smith (born 1967), filmmaker Leslie Smith III (born 1985), painter Vincent D. Smith (1929–2003), painter and printmaker William E. Smith (1913–1997), painter and printmaker Gilda Snowden (1954–2014) Mitchell Squire (born 1958), American installation artist, sculptor and performance artist Raymond Steth (1916–1997) Renee Stout (born 1958), artist Thelma Johnson Streat (1911–1959) American painter, dancer, educator Martine Syms (born 1988), artist T–Z Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937), artist Ron Tarver (born 1957), photographer, artist, and educator Margaret Taylor-Burroughs (1915–2010) Alma Thomas (1891–1978), painter Hank Willis Thomas (born 1976), photographer Mickalene Thomas (born 1971), painter and installation artist Bob Thompson (1937–1966), painter Mildred Thompson (1935–2003), abstract painter, printmaker and sculptor Dox Thrash (1892–1962), printmaker, sculptor Bill Traylor (1856–1949) Henry Taylor (born 1958), painter Yvonne Edwards Tucker (born 1941), potter Adejoke Tugbiyele (born 1977), sculptor, multidisciplinary artist Morrie Turner (1923–2014), cartoonist James Van Der Zee (1886–1983), photographer Kara Walker (born 1969), artist William Walker (1927–2011), Chicago muralist Eugene Warburg, (1825–1859), sculptor Laura Wheeler Waring (1887–1948), painter E. M. Washington (born 1962), printmaker and counterfeiter Cullen Washington, Jr. (born 1972) abstract painter. James W. Washington, Jr. (1908–2000), painter and sculptor Howard N. Watson (1929–2022), watercolor painter Richard J. Watson (B. 1946), painter, printmaker Lewis Watts Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953), photographer Pheoris West (1950–2021) Charles Wilbert White (1918–1979), muralist Fo Wilson, Interdisciplinary artist and designer Jack Whitten (1939–2018), painter Kehinde Wiley (born 1977), painter Gerald Williams (artist) (born 1941), painter William T. Williams (born 1942), painter Deborah Willis (born 1948), photographer Ellis Wilson (1899–1977), painter Fred Wilson (born 1954), conceptual artist John Woodrow Wilson (1922–2015), sculptor Beulah Woodard (1895–1955), sculptor Hale Woodruff (1900–1980), painter Richard Wyatt, Jr. (born 1955), painter, muralist Richard Yarde (1939–2011), watercolorist Joseph Yoakum (1890–1972), self-taught landscape artist Kenneth Victor Young (1933–2017), painter, designer, educator