1992 in art

Events from the year 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 (Paul Keating)
 * Turner Prize: – Grenville Davey

Works

 * Magdalena Abakanowicz – bronzes
 * Becalmed Beings
 * Puellae
 * Banksy – First graffiti art (in Bristol)
 * Bust of Bernardo O'Higgins (Houston) (sculpture, Texas)
 * Muriel Castanis – Ideals (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
 * Grenville Davey – Hal
 * Anya Gallaccio – Red on Green
 * Gibson/Ashbaugh – Agrippa (a book of the dead)
 * Damien Hirst – Pharmacy (installation)
 * Soraida Martinez – Verdadism
 * Simon Patterson – The Great Bear (lithograph)
 * George Rickey – Cluster of Four Cubes (sculpture, Washington, D.C.)
 * James Rosenquist – Time Dust
 * Brad Rude – A Donkey, 3 Rocks, and a Bird. (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
 * George Segal – Street Crossing (sculpture)
 * 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 – Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.
 * Young British Artists – Saatchi Gallery, London (featuring Damien Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living).

Gifts (Bequests)

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

Births

 * 29 January – George Pocheptsov, American painter

January to June

 * 6 January – Richard Mortensen, Danish painter and educator (b. 1910)
 * 27 January – Isabel Rawsthorne, English painter and model (b. 1912)
 * 19 February – Lena Gurr, American painter and lithographer (b. 1897).
 * 4 March – Art Babbitt, American animator (b. 1907).
 * 6 March – Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Portuguese-French abstract painter (b. 1908).
 * 11 April – Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver (b. 1920).
 * 28 April – Francis Bacon, Irish-born British figurative painter (b. 1909).
 * 13 May – F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor (b. 1909).
 * 6 June – Richard Eurich, English marine painter (b. 1903).
 * 15 June – Brett Whiteley, Australian avant-garde artist (b. 1939).
 * 18 June – Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b. 1896).
 * 28 June – John Piper, English landscape painter and designer (b. 1903).
 * 30 June – André Hébuterne, French painter (b. 1894).
 * 6 July – Richard Eurich, English sea- and landscape painter (b. 1903).

July to December

 * 7 September – EQ Nicholson, English textile designer and painter (b.1908).
 * 25 September – César Manrique, Spanish artist and architect (b. 1919)
 * 30 October – Joan Mitchell, American Abstract Expressionist painter (b. 1925).
 * 11 November – Giulio Carlo Argan, Italian art historian and politician (b. 1909).
 * 27 November – Ivan Generalić, Croatian naïve art painter (b. 1914)
 * 30 November - Bernard Lefebvre, French photographer (b. 1906)
 * 23 December – Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (b. 1934).
 * 24 December – Peyo, Belgian comics artist (b. 1928).