Events from the year 1966 in art.
Events
Exhibitions
Awards
Works
Births
- 12 January â Rob Zombie, born Robert Cummings, American artist and musician
- 31 January â Christian Cardell Corbet, Canadian portrait sculptor, painter and art historian
- 10 March â Fernando Gaspar, Portuguese visual artist
- 20 April â Bio, born Wilfredo Feliciano, American graffiti artist
- 4 October â Angus Fairhurst, Young British Artist, installation, photography and video artist (d.2008)
- 12 December â Lydia Zimmermann, Spanish filmmaker and video artist
Full date unknown
Deaths
- January 6 â Jean Lurçat, French painter and designer (b. 1892)
- January 11 â Alberto Giacometti, Swiss surrealist sculptor and painter (b. 1901)
- February 17 â Hans Hofmann, German American abstract expressionist painter and teacher (b. 1880)
- March 4 â Stanley Anderson, English engraver (b. 1884)
- March 30 â Maxfield Parrish, American painter and illustrator (b. 1870)
- April 3 â Battista Farina, Italian car designer (b. 1893)
- April 12 â Wilhelm Schnarrenberger, German painter (b. 1892)
- April 13 â Carlo CarrÃÂ, Italian painter (b. 1881)
- May 30 â Wäinö Aaltonen, Finnish sculptor (b. 1894)
- June 7 â Jean Arp, German-French-Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1886)
- July 1 â Pauline Boty, English pop art painter (b. 1938)
- July 10 â Malvina Hoffman, American sculptor (b. 1885?)
- July 29 â Edward Gordon Craig, English theatrical designer (b. 1872)
- August 2 or 3 â Tristan Klingsor (Léon Leclère), French poet, painter and musician (b. 1874)
- August 16 â Gavriil Gorelov, Russian painter (b. 1880)
- November 23 â Alvin Langdon Coburn, British pictorialist photographer (b. 1882)
- December 20 â Matvey Manizer, Russian sculptor (b. 1891)
- Duncan Phillips, American art collector and critic (b. 1886)
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