1992 in art

The year 1992 in art involved some significant events and new works.

Events

• 16 March - British fashion designer Alexander McQueen shows his first collection, partly inspired by The Silence of the Lambs (film).
• 12 October – Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid is opened to the public as a gallery for the private art collection of the Thyssen-Bornemisza family.
• 31 October – Kunsthal in Rotterdam, designed by Rem Koolhaas, is opened as a gallery for modern art.^[1]

Awards

• Archibald Prize: – Bryan Westwood – The Prime Minister (Paul Keating)
• Turner Prize: – Grenville Davey

Works

• Magdalena Abakanowicz – bronzes
  • Becalmed Beings
  • Puellae
• Banksy – First graffiti art (in Bristol)^[2]
• Bust of Bernardo O'Higgins (Houston) (sculpture, Texas)
• Muriel Castanis – Ideals (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
• Grenville Davey – Hal
• Anya Gallaccio – Red on Green
• Gibson/Ashbaugh – Agrippa (a book of the dead)
• Damien Hirst – Pharmacy (installation)
• Soraida Martinez – Verdadism
• Simon Patterson – The Great Bear (lithograph)
• George Rickey – Cluster of Four Cubes (sculpture, Washington, D.C.)
• James Rosenquist – Time Dust
• Brad Rude – A Donkey, 3 Rocks, and a Bird. (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
• George Segal – Street Crossing (sculpture)
• Jack Vettriano – The Singing Butler
• Christopher Wool - "If You"^[3]

Exhibitions

• "Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.^[4]
• Edward Delaney retrospective – Royal Hibernian Academy.
• Richard Hamilton retrospective – Tate Gallery.
• Sol LeWitt Drawings 1958–1992 – Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.
• Young British Artists – Saatchi Gallery, London (featuring Damien Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living).

Gifts (Bequests)

• Herbert and Dorothy Vogel collection given to National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.^[5]

Births

• 29 January – George Pocheptsov, American painter

Deaths

January to June

• 6 January – Richard Mortensen, Danish painter and educator (b. 1910)
• 19 February – Lena Gurr, American painter and lithographer (b. 1897).
• 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).
• 6 June – Richard Eurich, English marine painter (b. 1903).
• 15 June – Brett Whiteley, Australian avant-garde artist (b. 1939).
• 18 June – Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b. 1896).
• 28 June – John Piper, English landscape painter and designer (b. 1903).
• 30 June – André Hébuterne, French painter (b. 1894).
• 6 July – Richard Eurich, English sea- and landscape painter (b. 1903).

July to December

• 7 September – EQ Nicholson, English textile designer and painter (b.1908).
• 25 September – César Manrique, Spanish artist and architect (b. 1919)^[6]
• 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)
• 30 November - Bernard Lefebvre, French photographer (b. 1906)^[7]
• 23 December – Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (b. 1934).
• 24 December – Peyo, Belgian comics artist (b. 1928).

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