2008 in art

Events

Exhibitions

Awards

• Caldecott Medal - Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
• Doug Moran National Portrait Prize - Fiona Lowry
• Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts - Mona Hatoum
• Turner Prize nominees - Runa Islam, Mark Leckey, Goshka Macuga and Cathy Wilkes.

Deaths

January to March

• 3 January - Joan Gillchrest, 89, British painter.
• 2 February - Roger Testu, French cartoonist (b.1913).
• 3 March - William Brice, American painter and teacher (b.1921).
• 11 March - Dave Stevens, American illustrator and comics artist (b.1955).
• 19 March - Hugo Claus, Belgian novelist, poet, playwright, painter and film director (b.1929).
• 28 March - Michael Podro, English art historian (b.1931).
• 29 March - Angus Fairhurst, Young British Artist, installation, photography and video artist (b.1966).
• 29 March - Josef Mikl, Austrian abstract painter (b.1929).

April to June

• 3 April - Vladimír Preclík, Czech writer and sculptor (b.1929).
• 6 April - John Plumb, English painter (b.1927).
• 9 April - Burt Glinn, American photographer (b.1925).
• 14 April - Ollie Johnston, American animator (b.1912).
• 16 April - Joseph Solman, American painter (b.1909).
• 23 April - Paul Wonner, American painter (b.1920).
• 25 April - Enrico Donati, Italian-born American Surrealist painter and sculptor (b.1909).
• 10 May - Herbert Albert, 82, British painter and etcher.
• 12 May - Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (b.1925).
• 15 May - Will Elder, American illustrator and comic book artist (b.1921).
• 18 May - Pietro Cascella, Italian painter and sculptor (b.1921).
• 21 May - Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, Portuguese artist and professor (b.1931).
• 23 May - Cornell Capa, Hungarian-American photographer and photo curator (b.1918).
• 28 May - Beryl Cook, English painter (b.1926).
• 1 June - Alton Kelley, American poster and album artist (b.1940).
• 1 June - Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (b.1936).
• 18 June - Tasha Tudor, American illustrator and author of children's books (b.1915).

July to December

• 7 July - Bruce Conner, American artist in film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage and photography (b.1933).
• 7 July - Fred Yates, English artist (b.1922).
• 19 July - Dave Pearson, English painter (b.1937).
• 1 August - Pauline Baynes, English book illustrator (b.1922).
• 12 August - Michael Baxandall, Welsh art historian (b.1933).
• 18 August - Manny Farber, American painter and film critic (b.1917).
• 23 August - John Russell, British American art critic (b.1919).
• 3 September - Derek Davis, English painter and potter (b.1926).
• 4 September - Alain Jacquet, French artist (b.1939).
• 12 September - Simon Hantaï, Hungarian abstract artist (b.1922).
• 1 October - Boris Efimov, Russian cartoonist and propaganda artist (b.1900).
• 7 October - Miles Richmond, English painter (b.1922).
• 11 October - William Claxton, American photographer (b.1927)
• 14 October - Ray Lowry, English cartoonist and illustrator (b.1944).
• 18 October - Gwyther Irwin, English abstract artist (b.1931).
• 15 November - Grace Hartigan, American Abstract Expressionist painter, (b.1922)
• 17 December - Willoughby Sharp, American author, curator, critic (b.1936)
• 27 December - Robert Graham, Mexican-American sculptor (b.1938).