1977 in art

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Events

• Starr Kempf constructs the first of his "wind sculptures".
• documenta 6 takes place.
• Douglas Crimp curates "Pictures," featuring Jack Goldstein, Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine and others, at Artists Space in New York.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Kevin Connor - Robert Klippel

Exhibitions

• Retrospective of Valentine Hugo at the Centre Culturel Thibaud de Champagne, Troyes.
• Retrospective of Frida Kahlo at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.

Works

• Donald Judd - Untitled (Meter Box)
• Marina Abramovic and Ulay - Expansion in Space
• Walter De Maria - The Lightning Field (land art)
• Lucian Freud - Naked Man with Rat
• Gordon Matta-Clark - Jacob's Ladder
• Robert Morris - Williams Mirrors
• Cindy Sherman - Untitled Film Stills (through 1980)
• Nabil Kanso - The Vortices of Wrath (Lebanon 1977) 1977
• Jean Tinguely - Tinguely Fountain and Carnival Fountain (Fasnachtsbrunnen) (both kinetic sculptures in Basel)

Births

• 8 February - Yucef Merhi, Venezuelan artist, poet and computer programmer.
• 16 December - Kevin Gillespie, American comic book creator and graphic artist.

Deaths

• 27 April - Charles Alston, American artist, muralist, and teacher (b.1907).
• 3 July - Gertrude Abercrombie, American painter (b.1909)
• 21 July - Lee Miller, American photographer (b.1907).
• 23 August - Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor (b. 1890).
• 11 September - Augustus Dunbier, American painter (b.1888).
• 23 September - John Nash, English painter, illustrator, and engraver (b.1893).
• 20 October - Marie-Thérèse Walter, mistress of Pablo Picasso (b.1909).
• 5 November - René Goscinny, French comic book author, editor and humorist (b.1926).
• 21 December - Seán Keating, Irish romantic-realist painter (b.1889).

Full date unknown

• Walter Pritchard, stained glass artist
• Philip Lindsey Clark, sculptor

See also

• 1977 in fine arts of the Soviet Union