1990 in art

Exhibitions

• British Art Show at Hayward Gallery includes work by Young British Artists
• Jim Gary's Twentieth Century Dinosaurs opened on April 12, 1990, the only solo exhibition by a sculptor at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., that drew a record number of visitors to the museum

Works

• Arman - Hope for Peace Monument (sculpture in Yarze, Lebanon)
• Eduardo Chillida - Peine Del Viento XVII –
• Robert Coburn - Bell Circles II (sound installation, Portland, Oregon) –
• Elisabeth Frink - Desert Quartet (sculpture, Worthing, England) –
• Douglas Gordon - Meaning and Location
• Damien Hirst - A Thousand Years
• Howard Hodgkin - After Degas
• Tadeusz Kantor - September Defeat
• Lee Kelly with Michael Stirling - Friendship Circle (installation, Portland, Oregon) –
• Eric Larsen - Packy mural (Portland, Oregon) –
• Patrick Morelli - Behold (statue, Atlanta, Georgia) –
• Victor Salmones - Cancer, There Is Hope (bronze, Houston, Texas)
• Shamim Sikder - Shoparjito Shadhinota (En: Self Earned Freedom) at Dhaka University in Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Rachel Whiteread - Ghost
• Sue Williamson - For Thirty Years Next to His Heart (Forty-nine photocopies in artist-designed frames)

Awards

• Turner Prize – No prize was offered because of lack of sponsorship.

Films

• Vincent and Me

Deaths

January–June

• January – Daniel du Janerand, French painter , sad and devastating death(b. 1919)
• 15 January - Henrietta Berk, 81. American painter (b. 1919)
• 22 January – Roman Vishniac, Russian-American photographer (b. 1897)
• 15 February – Norman Parkinson, English fashion photographer (b. 1913)
• 16 February – Keith Haring, American artist and social activist (b. 1958)
• 15 March – Jim Ede, English art collector (b. 1895)
• 21 April – Romain de Tirtoff, Russian-born French artist and designer (b. 1892)
• May – Fuller Potter, American Abstract expressionist artist (b. 1910)
• 30 June – Jacques Lob, French comic book creator (b. 1932)

July–December

• 18 July – Yves Chaland, French cartoonist (b. 1957)
• 23 July – Pierre Gandon, French illustrator and engraver of postage stamps (b. 1899)
• 25 July – Leonard Bahr, American portrait and mural painter (b. 1905)
• 14 October – Clifton Pugh, Australian artist (b. 1924)
• 26 October – Joan Brown, American figurative painter (b. 1938)
• 7 December – Jean Paul Lemieux, Canadian-American painter (b. 1904)
• 8 December – Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director (b. 1915)
• 23 December – Serge Danot, French animator (b. 1931)
• 28 December – Ed van der Elsken, Dutch photographer (b. 1925)
• 29 December – David Piper, English curator and novelist (b. 1918)

See also

• 1990 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References