1983 in art

Events from the year 1983 in art.

Events

 * Galería OMR commercial contemporary art gallery founded in Mexico City.
 * High Museum of Art, designed by Richard Meier, opened in Atlanta, Georgia.
 * Australian painter Sidney Nolan settles in Britain at Rodd Court in Herefordshire on the Welsh border near Presteigne.

Awards

 * Archibald Prize: Nigel Thomson – Chandler Coventry

Works

 * Richard Beyer's Charles Frederic Swigert Jr. Memorial Fountain installed in Oregon Zoo, Portland.
 * Completion of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude environmental artwork, Surrounded Islands, involving eleven islands in Biscayne Bay off Miami being surrounded by 6,500,000 square feet (600,000 m2) of pink fabric.
 * Lucian Freud - Large Interior W11 (After Watteau)
 * Completion of Richard Hamilton's diptych The Citizen.
 * Cast of John Seward Johnson II's painted bronze Allow Me installed in Portland, Oregon.
 * Marta Minujin - The Parthenon of Books.
 * Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle's kinetic artwork, the Stravinsky Fountain near the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Births

 * Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al Thani, Qatari chairperson of the Qatar Museums Authority
 * Jérémie Iordanoff, French abstract artist
 * Milo Moiré, Swiss performance artist

January to June

 * 24 February – Roy Krenkel, American illustrator (b.1918).
 * 3 March – Hergé, Belgian comics writer and artist (b.1907).
 * 21 May – Kenneth Clark, English author, museum director, broadcaster and art historians (b.1903).
 * May 11 – Ernst Thoms, German painter (b. 1896).
 * 8 June – Rachel Baes, Belgian painter  (b.1912).

July to December

 * 14 July – Philip Zec, British editorial cartoonist (b. 1909).
 * 12 August – Franz Radziwill, German painter (b. 1895).
 * 18 August – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British art historian (b.1902).
 * 28 October – Otto Messmer, American animator (b.1892).
 * 5 November – Jean-Marc Reiser, French comics creator (b.1941).
 * 17 November – John Russell Harper, Canadian art historian (b.1914).
 * 2 December – Aart van den IJssel, Dutch sculptor (b.1922).
 * 20 December – Bill Brandt, German-born British photographer and photojournalist (b.1904).
 * 23 December – Colin Middleton, Irish artist (b.1910).
 * 25 December – Joan Miró, Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist (b.1893).

Full date unknown

 * Michael Cardew, English studio potter (b.1901).
 * Bernard Lamotte, French illustrator, painter and muralist (b.1903).
 * Edward Wesson, English watercolour artist (b.1910).