Ashley Bickerton Cause of Death

Ashley Bickerton, the toast of the New York art world in the 1980s, died on Wednesday, November 30 2022, at the age of 63 in Bali, Indonesia.

He was diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, last year, which affects the nervous system and can be debilitating.

He refused, however, to let his illness consume him. “Life is to be lived and got on with, and I’m busy—too busy—for that,” he told Los Angeles Magazine.

Gagosian, the mega-gallery that started representing Bickerton earlier this year, confirmed his death. Gagosian is planning a retrospective of his work for 2023.

Bickerton rose to prominence in the 1980s for a beguiling body of work that parodied consumerist impulses. He created mixed-media self-portraits out of logos for TV channels, car companies, cigarette manufacturers, and other businesses.

He even created his own brand, SUSIE (full name: Susie Culturelux), which he claimed would serve as a “Index/Name Brand/Artistic Signature” for future art historians.