Senior and Honorary Academicians

Senior Academicians
After the age of 75, RAs are promoted to the Senior Order of Academicians. They retain their full voting rights, but are no longer eligible to serve as Officers or on the Academy’s Committees. The promotion of RAs to the position of Senior Academician creates vacancies for the election of new Academicians. Currently, there are around 40 Senior RAs.

Mimmo Paladino Hon RA, Nude Che Scende le Scala No.XI Honorary Academicians
Honorary Academicians are distinguished artists who are not resident in the UK. They do not take part in the governance of the RA and do not have voting rights. A maximum of two per year may be appointed by the RAs.

Marina Abramovic
Tadao Ando
Georg Baselitz
Marlene Dumas
Frank O Gehry
Prof Rebecca Horn
Prof Arata Isozaki
Jasper Johns
Ellsworth Kelly
Anselm Kiefer
Per Kirkeby
Jeff Koons
Daniel Libeskind
Bruce Nauman
Mimmo Paladino
Ieoh Ming Pei
Renzo Piano
Ed Ruscha
Julian Schnabel
Richard Serra
Cindy Sherman
Frank Stella
James Turrell
Rosemarie Trockel
Ai Weiwei

Honorary Fellows
Honorary Fellows are individuals who are distinguished within their own fields, but are not practising artists of the categories of Membership to the Royal Academy. A maximum of two per year may be appointed by the RAs.

Sir David Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE FRS
Alan Bennett Esq
Sir Harrison Birtwistle CH
Prof Sir Quentin Blake CBE RDI
Alfred Brendel Hon KBE
Dame Antonia S Byatt DBE FRSL
Dr Richard Cork
Edward Fox OBE
Sir Nicholas Goodison FBA FSA
Dame Jennifer Jenkins DBE
Sir Jonathan Miller CBE
Pierre Rosenberg Esq
Prof Joseph Rykwert
Prof George Steiner FBA
David Storey Esq
Sir John Tusa
Jeanette Winterson OBE

• Royal Academy of Arts