1992 in art

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.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: – Bryan Westwood – The Prime Minister
• Turner Prize: – Grenville Davey

Works

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

Exhibitions

• "Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
• Edward Delaney retrospective – Royal Hibernian Academy.
• Richard Hamilton retrospective – Tate Gallery.
• Sol LeWitt Drawings 1958–1992 – Kunstmuseum Den Haag
• Young British Artists – Saatchi Gallery, London.

Gifts (Bequests)

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

Births

• 29 January – George Pocheptsov, American painter

Deaths

January to June

• 6 January – Richard Mortensen, Danish painter and educator
• 27 January – Isabel Rawsthorne, English painter and model
• 19 February – Lena Gurr, American painter and lithographer.
• 4 March – Art Babbitt, American animator.
• 6 March – Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Portuguese-French abstract painter.
• 11 April – Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver.
• 28 April – Francis Bacon, Irish-born British figurative painter.
• 13 May – F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor.
• 6 June – Richard Eurich, English marine painter.
• 15 June – Brett Whiteley, Australian avant-garde artist.
• 18 June – Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter.
• 28 June – John Piper, English landscape painter and designer.
• 30 June – André Hébuterne, French painter.
• 6 July – Richard Eurich, English sea- and landscape painter.

July to December

• 7 September – EQ Nicholson, English textile designer and painter.
• 25 September – César Manrique, Spanish artist and architect
• 30 October – Joan Mitchell, American Abstract Expressionist painter.
• 12 November – Giulio Carlo Argan, Italian art historian and politician.
• 27 November – Ivan Generalić, Croatian naïve art painter
• 30 November - Bernard Lefebvre, French photographer
• 23 December – Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer.
• 24 December
• * Peyo, Belgian comics artist.
• * Stella Skopal, Croatian sculptor.