June – Zentrum Paul Klee, a museum dedicated to Paul Klee, designed by Renzo Piano, opens at Bern in Switzerland.
September 30 – Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
Archibald Prize – John Olsen, Self portrait Janus Faced
Beck's Futures – Christina Mackie
Caldecott Medal for children's book illustration – Kevin Henkes, Kitten's First Full Moon
Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts – Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa
Turner Prize – Simon Starling, Shedboatshed
The Venice Biennial (June 12 - November 6):
Lion d'Or Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Barbara Kruger (USA)
Lion d'Or for Best Pavilion: Annette Messager (France)
Wynne prize – Jenny Sages, The Road to Utopia
Artwall, Portland, Oregon
Engagement (sculpture)
Father and Son (Bourgeois), Seattle
Love & Loss, Seattle
February 12–27 – The Gates, installation art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in Central Park, New York City.
May 10 – Dedication of Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, designed by architect Peter Eisenman originally working with sculptor Richard Serra (both Americans), in Berlin.
July 9 – Unveiling of Monument to the Women of World War II, sculpted by John W. Mills, in Whitehall, London.
Ron Mueck – In Bed (sculpture, in Queensland Gallery of Modern Art)
Odd Nerdrum – Cannibals
Bridget Riley – Red Movement
Aleksander Balos – Travaux récents (organised by Arts nord sud, at Espace Griffon, Crédit Municipal, Paris, France)
1 January – Eugene J. Martin, American visual artist (b.1938).
4 January
Guy Davenport, American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher (b.1927).
Alton Tobey, American painter, historical artist, muralist, portraitist, illustrator and teacher (b.1914).
14 January
Conroy Maddox, English surrealist painter, collagist, writer and lecturer (b.1912).
Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer (b.1940).
25 January
Philip Johnson, major art collector, former MoMA curator, influential architect (b. 1906)
Max Velthuijs, Dutch painter, illustrator and author (b.1923).
27 January
Gordon Lambert, Irish art collector (b.1919).
Aurélie Nemours, French painter (b.1910).
7 February – Paul Rebeyrolle, French painter (b.1926).
18 February – Harald Szeemann, Swiss curator and art historian (b.1933).
21 February – Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish painter, photographer, and fantasy artist (b.1929).
20 March – Walter Hopps, American museum director and curator (b.1932).
5 April
Dale Messick, first American woman syndicated comic strip artist (b.1906)
Neil Welliver, American painter (b.1929)
10 April – Carl Abrahams, Jamaican painter (b.1911)
11 April – André François, French cartoonist (b.1915)
13 April
Philip Pavia, American sculptor (b.1912)
Juan Zanotto, Italian-born Argentine comic book artist (b.1935)
19 April – Clement Meadmore, Australian-born American sculptor (b.1929)
22 April – Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish-born sculptor and artist (b.1924)
27 May – Fay Godwin, English landscape photographer (b.1931)
12 June – David Whitney, American independent curator and art dealer (b.1939)
21 June – Al Loving, African American abstract impressionist painter (b.1935)
22 July - Dragoš Kalajić, Serbian painter (b. 1943)
26 July – Robert C. Turner, American potter (b.1913)
27 July – Al Held, American Abstract expressionist painter (b.1928)
1 August – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter, one of the innovators of Unitary Urbanism (b.1920)
16 August – Joe Ranft, American magician, animation storyboard artist and voice actor (b.1960)
22 August – Juliet Pannett, English portrait artist (b. 1911)
26 August – Robert Denning, American interior designer (b.1927)
22 October – Arman, French-born American artist (b.1928)
28 October – Raymond Hains, French artist and photographer (b.1926)
11 November – Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, English photographer (b.1939)
2 December – Lillian Browse, English art dealer and historian (born 1906)
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