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

*Grenville Davey - "Hal"
*Anya Gallaccio - "Red on Green"
*Gibson/Ashbaugh - "Agrippa (a book of the dead)"
*James Rosenquist - "Time Dust"

Exhibitions

*Edward Delaney retrospective - Royal Hibernian Academy
*Richard Hamilton retrospective - Tate Gallery
*"Sol LeWitt Drawings 1958-1992" at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

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).
*18 June - Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b.1896).
*30 June - André Hébuterne, French painter (b.1894).

July to December

*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).