Donald Sultan (born May 5, 1951, in Asheville, North Carolina) is a prominent American contemporary artist known for his large-scale still life paintings that merge abstract expressionism with everyday subjects. He earned a BFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1973 and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1975. Sultan moved to New York in 1975, where he rose to prominence as part of the "New Image" movement in the late 1970s.

His work is characterized by the use of industrial materials such as tar, vinyl tiles, spackle, and Masonite, often applied to create textured, monumental surfaces. Instead of traditional canvas, Sultan constructs his supports from plywood and linoleum tiles, then layers and carves into them using knives, blowtorches, and plaster to form bold, simplified shapes of lemons, flowers, dominoes, and industrial scenes.

Sultan describes his paintings as abstract first and foremost, despite their representational subjects. His imagery explores contrasts—beauty and roughness, nature and artificiality, fragility and strength—and is often framed against stark, tar-black backgrounds. He has been recognized with two honorary doctorates (from the Corcoran School of Art and the New York Academy of Art) and is represented in major museum collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Tate Gallery (London), and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York). His work continues to be exhibited internationally, with recent shows including Love Letters at RYAN LEE Gallery (2024).