The year 2007 in art involved various significant events and new works.
Events
Exhibitions
Awards
Works
- Sanford Biggers - Blossom
- Ed Dwight â Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (sculpture, Houston, Texas)
- Russ Faxon â Statue of John Stith Pemberton (sculpture, Atlanta)
- Valerie Hegarty - Fallen Bierstadt (after A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie by Albert Bierstadt)
- David Hockney â Bigger Trees Near Warter
- Zhang Huan - Three Legged Buddha (sculpture)
- Maya Lin - Above and Below (sculpture, Indianapolis Museum of Art)
- John Ney Michel and Christopher Liberatos â Statue of William Moultrie (sculpture, Charleston, South Carolina)
- Stephen Kettle â Statue of Alan Turing (sculpture in slate, Bletchley Park, England)
- Jo Ractliffe â Roadside stall on the way to Viana (photograph)
- Ian Rank-Broadley â The Stretcher Bearers and The Gates (bronzes, Armed Forces Memorial, Staffordshire, England)
- Neo Rauch
- Hunter's Room
- Waiting for the Barbarians
- Allison Saar â "Swing Low" â Harriet Tubman Memorial (Harriet Tubman Plaza, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City)
- Tahir Salahov â Land of Fire
- Doris Salcedo â Shibboleth (installation at Tate Modern, London)
- Luke Sullivan â ' (sculpture)
- James Turrell â Dividing the Light (installation at Pomona College, Claremont, California, United States)
Deaths
January to March
- 8 January â Iwao Takamoto, Japanese American animator, television producer and film director (b.1925).
- 11 January â Bryan Pearce, English naïve painter (b.1929).
- 20 January â Dan Christensen, American abstract painter (b.1942).
- 4 February â Jules Olitski, American abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor (b.1922).
- 6 February â Heinz Berggruen, German art collector
- 14 February â Emmett Williams, American poet and Fluxus artist (b.1925).
- 22 February
- Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author, painter, and art collector (b.1918).
- Miriam Mone, Northern Irish fashion designer (b.1965; ovarian cancer).
- 2 March â Madi Phala, South African artist (b.1955).
- 6 March â Jean Baudrillard, French cultural theorist, sociologist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer (b.1929).
- 16 March â Raymond Nasher, American art collector (b.1921).
April to June
- 7 April â Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (b.1931).
- 8 April â Sol LeWitt, American conceptual and minimalist artist (b.1928).
- 10 April â Salvatore Scarpitta, American sculptor (b.1919).
- 15 April â Brant Parker, American cartoonist (b.1920).
- 17 April â Kitty Carlisle Hart, American singer, actress, and New York State Council on the Arts member (b.1910).
- 3 May â Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist and illustrator (b.1913).
- 26 May â James Beck, American art historian (b.1930).
- 28 May â Jörg Immendorff, German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor (b.1945; ALS).
- 2 June â Jerry Wilkerson, American painter (b.1943).
- 17 June â Gianfranco Ferré, Italian fashion designer (b.1944).
- 22 June â Bernd Becher, German photographer (b.1931).
- 26 June â Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer and entrepreneur (b.1929).
July to September
- 7 July â John Szarkowski, American photographer, curator, historian, and critic (b.1925).
- 17 July â Jeremy Blake, American digital artist and painter (b.1971).
- 22 July â Aleksandr Tatarskiy, Russian animator, artist, and film director (b.1950).
- 9 August â Joe O'Donnell, American photographer (b.1922).
- 11 August â Maurice Boitel, French painter (b.1919).
- 12 August
- Elizabeth Murray, American painter, printmaker, and draughtsman (b.1940).
- Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (b.1963).
- 17 August â Edward Avedisian, American abstract painter (b.1936).
- 24 September â Lenore Tawney, American fiber artist (b.1907).
- 25 September â André Emmerich, American gallerist.
October to December
- 5 October â Alexandra Boulat, French photographer (b.1962).
- 8 October â Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (b.1917).
- 21 October
- R. B. Kitaj, American-born English artist (b.1932).
- Ileana Sonnabend, American art dealer and gallerist.
- 30 October â Norbert Lynton, British art historian and Professor of the History of Art (b.1927).
- 16 November â Paul Brach, American abstract painter, lecturer and educator (b.1924).
- 4 December
- Norval Morrisseau, Aboriginal Canadian artist (b.1932).
- Herman Rose 98, American painter (b.1909).
- 7 December - Noel Forster, British painter (b.1932)
- 14 December â Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter (b.1926).
- 31 December
- Michael Goldberg, American abstract expressionist painter and teacher (b. 1924).
- Ettore Sottsass, Italian architect and designer (b. 1917)
Undated
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