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1992 in art

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The year 1992 in art involved some significant events and new works.

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Events

  • 31 October – Kunsthal in Rotterdam, designed by Rem Koolhaas, is opened as a gallery for modern art.

    • Awards

  • Archibald Prize: – Bryan Westwood – The Prime Minister (Paul Keating)
  • Turner Prize: – Grenville Davey

    • Works

  • Banksy – First graffiti art (in Bristol)
  • Bernardo O'Higgins (sculpture, Houston, Texas)
  • Muriel Castanis – Ideals (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
  • Grenville Davey – Hal
  • Anya Gallaccio – Red on Green
  • Gibson/Ashbaugh – Agrippa (a book of the dead)
  • Damien Hirst – Pharmacy (installation)
  • Soraida Martinez – Verdadism
  • Simon Patterson – The Great Bear (lithograph)
  • George Rickey – Cluster of Four Cubes (sculpture, Washington, D.C.)
  • James Rosenquist – Time Dust
  • Brad Rude – A Donkey, 3 Rocks, and a Bird. (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
  • George Segal – Street Crossing (sculpture)
  • Jack Vettriano – The Singing Butler

    • Exhibitions

  • "Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
  • Edward Delaney retrospective – Royal Hibernian Academy.
  • Richard Hamilton retrospective – Tate Gallery.
  • Sol LeWitt Drawings 1958–1992 – Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.
  • Young British Artists – Saatchi Gallery, London (featuring Damien Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living).

    • Gifts (Bequests)

  • Herbert and Dorothy Vogel collection given to National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

    • Births

  • 29 January – George Pocheptsov, American painter

    • January to June

  • 19 February – Lena Gurr, American painter and lithographer (b. 1897).
  • 4 March – Art Babbitt, American animator (b. 1907).
  • 6 March – Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Portuguese-French abstract painter (b. 1908).
  • 11 April – Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver (b. 1920).
  • 28 April – Francis Bacon, Irish-born British figurative painter (b. 1909).
  • 13 May – F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor (b. 1909).
  • 6 June – Richard Eurich, English marine painter (b. 1903).
  • 15 June – Brett Whiteley, Australian avant-garde artist (b. 1939).
  • 18 June – Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b. 1896).
  • 28 June – John Piper, English landscape painter and designer (b. 1903).
  • 30 June – André Hébuterne, French painter (b. 1894).
  • 6 July – Richard Eurich, English sea- and landscape painter (b. 1903).

    • July to December

  • 7 September – EQ Nicholson, English textile designer and painter (b.1908).
  • 25 September – César Manrique, Spanish artist and architect (b. 1919)
  • 30 October – Joan Mitchell, American Abstract Expressionist painter (b. 1925).
  • 11 November – Giulio Carlo Argan, Italian art historian and politician (b. 1909).
  • 27 November – Ivan Generalić, Croatian naïve art painter (b. 1914)
  • 30 November - Bernard Lefebvre, French photographer (b. 1906)
  • 23 December – Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (b. 1934).
  • 24 December – Peyo, Belgian comics artist (b. 1928).

    • References

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