1988 in art

Events

• Opening of the Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, designed by Steven Holl

Exhibitions

• Freeze, Surrey Docks, London

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Fred Cress – John Beard
• Turner Prize – Tony Cragg

Works

Births

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Deaths

January to June

• 19 March – Isabel Bishop, American painter and graphic artist (b.1902).
• 28 March – Neil Williams, American painter (b.1934).
• 31 March – Georges Lévis, French comic artist (b.1924).
• 3 April – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (b.1907).
• 17 April – Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American artist (b.1900).
• 16 May – Charles Keeping, English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer (b.1924).
• 16 June – Andrea Pazienza, Italian comics artist (b.1956).

July to December

• 12 July – Julian Trevelyan, English printmaker (b.1910).
• 12 August – Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist (b.1960).
• 29 September – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b.1912).
• 12 November – Primo Conti, Italian Futurist artist (b.1900).
• 25 November - Alphaeus Philemon Cole, American portrait artist (b. 1876 [sic.])
• 2 December – Kimon Evan Marengo, Egyptian-born British cartoonist (b.1904).
• 30 December – Isamu Noguchi, Japanese American artist and landscape architect (b.1904).
• date unknown
  • Reginald George Haggar, ceramic designer
  • Chambré Hardman, Irish photographer (b.1898).

See also

• 1988 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union