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• Ahmed Yacoubi (1931–1985), Moroccan painter and story-teller
• Yamagata Hiro (born 1948)
• Yamaguchi Kayo (1899–1984)
• Yamamoto Shōun (1870–1965)
• Yamamoto Taro (1919–1994)
• Yamashita Kiyoshi (1922–1971)
• Tsuruko Yamazaki (1925–2019)
• Yan Hui
• Yan Liben (600–673)
• Yanagawa Nobusada
• Yanagawa Shigenobu (1787–1832)
• Yang Borun (1837–1911)
• Yang Buzhi (1098–1167)
• Yang Jin (1644–1728)
• Yang Weizhen (1296–1370)
• Yao Tingmei
• Nikolai Yaroshenko (1846–1898), Russian painter of Ukrainian origin, member of the Peredvizhniki
• Yasuda Yukihiko (1884–1978)
• Yasui Sōtarō (1888–1955)
• Ye Xin
• Jack Butler Yeats (1871–1957), Irish artist
• Mary Agnes Yerkes (1886–1989), American Impressionist and plein-air painter of National Parks in the USA
• Yi Inmun (1745–1821)
• Yi Insang (1710–1760)
• Yi Jaegwan (1783–1837)
• Yi Yuanji (1000–1064)
• Delmer J. Yoakum (1915–1996), American fine artist, oil and watercolor painter, designer, serigrapher, scenic artist
• Joseph Yoakum (1886–1972), landscape artist of African-American and Native American descent
• Yokoyama Taikan (1868–1958)
• Yorozu Tetsugoro (1885–1927)
• Yosa Buson (1716–1783)
• Yoshihara Jirō (1905–1972)
• Yoshida Chizuko (born 1924)
• Yoshida Hanbei
• Yoshida Hiroshi (1876–1950)
• Yoshida Tōshi (1911–1995)
• Yu Zhiding (1647–1709)
• Yuan Jiang
• Yuan Yao
• Yue Minjun (born 1962)
• Yun Du-seo (1668–1715)
• Yun-Fei Ji (born 1963)
• Yun Shouping (1633–1690), Chinese flower painter and one of the Six Masters of the early Qing period
• Konstantin Yuon (1875–1958), Russian painter and theatre designer
• Lisa Yuskavage (born 1962)