1988 in art

Events

*Opening of the Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, designed by Steven Holl

Exhibitions

*"Freeze", Surrey Docks, London

Awards

*Archibald Prize: Fred Cress - "John Beard"
*Turner Prize - Tony Cragg

Works

Births

Deaths

January to June

*19 March - Isabel Bishop, American painter and graphic artist (b.1902).
*31 March - Georges Lévis, French comic artist (b.1924).
*3 April - Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (b.1907).
*17 April - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American artist (b.1899).
*16 May - Charles Keeping, English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer (b.1924).
*16 June - Andrea Pazienza, Italian comics artist (b.1956).

July to August

*12 August - Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist (b.1960).
*29 September - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b.1912).
*12 November - Primo Conti, Italian Futurist artist (b.1900).
*2 December - Kimon Evan Marengo, Egyptian-born British cartoonist (b.1904).
*30 December - Isamu Noguchi, Japanese American artist and landscape architect (b.1904).

Full date unknown

*Chambré Hardman, Irish photographer (b.1898).