1977 in art

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"
*Lucian Freud - "Naked Man with Rat"
*Gordon Matta-Clark - "Jacob's Ladder"
*Robert Morris - "Williams Mirrors"
*Cindy Sherman - "Untitled Film Stills" (through 1980)

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).
*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