1966 in art

List of years in Art

Events

*The Hairy Who, a group of surrealist iconoclasts later called the Chicago Imagists, first exhibit at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. They will be the most important art movement to come out of Chicago in the 1960s.
*Retrospective exhibition of Marcel Duchamp organized by Richard Hamilton at the Tate Gallery, London. The only comprehensive exhibition of the artist's work in the UK to date (2006).

Awards

*Archibald Prize: Jon Molvig - "Charles Blackman"

Works

*Kanda Nissho - "Gashitsu A" and "Gashitsu B"
*Claes Oldenburg - "Soft Bathtub"

Births

*12 January - Rob Zombie, artist and musician.
*20 April - Bio, graffiti artist.
*4 October - Angus Fairhurst, Young British Artist, installation, photography and video artist (d.2008).

Full date unknown

*Jeremy Deller, Turner Prize-winning artist.
*Amin Gulgee, Pakistani sculptor.

Deaths

*January 6 - Jean Lurçat, painter and designer
*January 11 - Alberto Giacometti, Surrealist sculptor and painter
*March 30 - Maxfield Parrish, painter and illustrator (b. 1870)
*April 3 - Battista Farina, car designer
*May 30 - Wäinö Aaltonen, sculptor
*June 7 - Jean Arp, painter and sculptor (b. 1886)
*July 10 - Malvina Hoffman, sculptor
* Hans Hofmann, abstract expressionist painter, teacher (b. 1880)