1992 in art

The year 1992 in art involved some significant events.

Awards

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

Works

• Banksy – First graffiti art (in Bristol)^[1]
• Grenville Davey – Hal
• Anya Gallaccio – Red on Green
• Gibson/Ashbaugh – Agrippa (a book of the dead)
• James Rosenquist – Time Dust
• Soraida Martinez – Verdadism
• Jack Vettriano – The Singing Butler

Exhibitions

• 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.^[2]

Deaths

January to June

• 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).
• 15 June Brett Whiteley Australian Artist
• 18 June – Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b. 1896).
• June 28 – John Piper, English painter (b. 1903)
• 30 June – André Hébuterne, French painter (b. 1894).

July to December

• 12 August – John Cage – Avant-garde composer (b. 1912).
• 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).
• 23 December – Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (b. 1934).
• 24 December – Peyo, Belgian comics artist (b. 1928).

Full date unknown

• Bernard Lefebvre, French photographer (b. 1906).

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