2007 in art

Events

• April - The Museo Alameda opens in San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.
• 10 June – 21 November – 52nd Venice Biennale.
• October - Execution by Yue Minjun sells at Sotheby's in London for £2.9 million pounds making it most expensive artwork ever sold by a Chinese contemporary artist.
• 18 October – In New York City, the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries is forced into closure on the evening of the opening of a major Caravaggio exhibition, amidst scandal and lawsuits.
• 22 October – In Amersfoort a fire at the Armando museum destroys 63 paintings from the permanent and loan collections.
• 2 November – Nightwatching, Peter Greenaway's film about Rembrandt, is released. It is the first film in Greenaway's series "Dutch Masters".
• 14 November – Sotheby's sells La Fuensanta by Julio Romero de Torres to a private collector.
• 20 December – The Pablo Picasso painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch, together with Candido Portinari's , is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art. It is recovered about three weeks later.

Exhibitions

• 23 January - 13 May - "Martin Ramirez at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City
• 10 May–28 July - “Universal Language & the Avant-Garde: Viking Eggeling, Hans Richter, and Jonas Mekas” at the Maya Stendhal gallery in New York City
• 14 June-16 September - National Portrait Gallery, "BP Portrait Award 2007"
• 15 June until 26 August - Ken Heyman: Pop Portraits at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New York
• 23 June until 16 September - Hans Schabus: Deserted Conquest at SITE Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico
• September–December - Garden in Transit, a public art exhibit, is displayed on New York City taxis between September 2007 and December 2007

Awards

• Archibald Prize – John Beard, Portrait of Janet Laurence
• Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester Artist of the Year – Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
• Caldecott Medal – David Wiesner, Flotsam
• Turner Prize – Mark Wallinger, State Britain
• Venice Biennale –
• *Lion d'Or Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement:Malick Sidibé
• *Lion d'Or for Best Pavilion: Andreas Fogarasi
• Wynne prize – Philip Wolfhagen, ''Winter Nocturne IV''

Works

• Sanford Biggers - Blossom
• Ed Dwight – Statue of Martin Luther King Jr.
• Russ Faxon – Statue of John Stith Pemberton
• Valerie Hegarty - Fallen Bierstadt
• David Hockney – Bigger Trees Near Warter
• Zhang Huan - Three Legged Buddha
• Maya Lin - Above and Below
• John Ney Michel and Christopher Liberatos – Statue of William Moultrie
• Stephen Kettle – Statue of Alan Turing
• Jo Ractliffe – Roadside stall on the way to Viana
• Ian Rank-Broadley – The Stretcher Bearers and The Gates
• Neo Rauch
• * Hunter's Room
• * Waiting for the Barbarians
• Allison Saar – "Swing Low" – Harriet Tubman Memorial
• Tahir Salahov – Land of Fire
• Doris Salcedo – Shibboleth
• Luke Sullivan – The Fourth Secret of Fatima
• James Turrell – ''Dividing the Light''

Deaths

January to March

• 8 January – Iwao Takamoto, Japanese American animator, television producer and film director.
• 11 January – Bryan Pearce, English naïve painter.
• 20 January – Dan Christensen, American abstract painter.
• 4 February – Jules Olitski, American abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor.
• 6 February – Heinz Berggruen, German art collector
• 14 February – Emmett Williams, American poet and Fluxus artist.
• 22 February
• *Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author, painter, and art collector.
• *Miriam Mone, Northern Irish fashion designer.
• 2 March – Madi Phala, South African artist.
• 6 March – Jean Baudrillard, French cultural theorist, sociologist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer.
• 16 March – Raymond Nasher, American art collector.

April to June

• 7 April – Johnny Hart, American cartoonist.
• 8 April – Sol LeWitt, American conceptual and minimalist artist.
• 10 April – Salvatore Scarpitta, American sculptor.
• 15 April – Brant Parker, American cartoonist.
• 17 April – Kitty Carlisle Hart, American singer, actress, and New York State Council on the Arts member.
• 3 May – Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist and illustrator.
• 26 May – James Beck, American art historian.
• 28 May – Jörg Immendorff, German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor.
• 2 June – Jerry Wilkerson, American painter.
• 17 June – Gianfranco Ferré, Italian fashion designer.
• 22 June – Bernd Becher, German photographer.
• 26 June – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer and entrepreneur.

July to September

• 7 July – John Szarkowski, American photographer, curator, historian, and critic.
• 17 July – Jeremy Blake, American digital artist and painter.
• 22 July – Aleksandr Tatarskiy, Russian animator, artist, and film director.
• 9 August – Joe O'Donnell, American photographer.
• 11 August – Maurice Boitel, French painter.
• 12 August
• *Elizabeth Murray, American painter, printmaker, and draughtsman.
• *Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist.
• 17 August – Edward Avedisian, American abstract painter.
• 24 September – Lenore Tawney, American fiber artist.
• 25 September – André Emmerich, American gallerist.

October to December

• 5 October – Alexandra Boulat, French photographer.
• 8 October – Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor.
• 21 October
• *R. B. Kitaj, American-born English artist.
• *Ileana Sonnabend, American art dealer and gallerist.
• 30 October – Norbert Lynton, British art historian and Professor of the History of Art.
• 16 November – Paul Brach, American abstract painter, lecturer and educator.
• 4 December
• *Norval Morrisseau, Aboriginal Canadian artist.
• *Herman Rose 98, American painter.
• 7 December - Noel Forster, British painter
• 14 December – Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter.
• 31 December
• * Michael Goldberg, American abstract expressionist painter and teacher.
• * Ettore Sottsass, Italian architect and designer

Undated

• Steven Campbell, Scottish figurative painter