1993 in art

The year 1993 in art involved some significant events.

Events

*27 May – A car bomb at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence kills five; the Mafia is suspected.

Full date unknown

*Jay Jopling opens the London gallery White Cube.
*"Beavis and Butt-head" first appears on MTV.
*The comic book collecting boom achieves its peak.

Exhibitions

*Kustom Kulture, Laguna Beach Art Museum
*Harold Parker retrospective, Queensland Art Gallery
*Venice Biennale shows several works by Young British Artists including Damien Hirst's "Mother and Child Divided".

Awards

*Archibald Prize: Garry Shead - "Tom Thompson"
*Schock Prize in Visual Arts: Rafael Moneo
*Turner Prize: Rachel Whiteread
*Wolf Prize in Arts: Bruce Nauman

Works

*Peter Doig - "Blotter"
*Anya Gallaccio - "Stroke"

Births

Deaths

*26 January - Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and painter (b.1912).
*28 January - Hannah Wilke, American painter, sculptor and photographer (b.1940).
*30 January - Svetoslav Roerich, Russian painter (b.1904).
*19 February - Pietro Pezzati, American painter (b.1902).
*30 March - Richard Diebenkorn, American painter (b.1922).
*3 May - Robert De Niro, Sr., American abstract expressionist painter (b.1922).
*30 May - Henry Heerup, Danish painter and sculptor (b.1907).
*6 September - Leonard Bocour, paint-maker, painter (b. 1910).
*7 December - Abidin Dino, Turkish artist (b.1913).