2004 In Art

The year 2004 in art involved some significant events and new art works.

Events

*April – A Belgian activist group cuts off the left hand of a bronze Congolese figure in a monument to Leopold II of Belgium in Ostend as a protest against colonial atrocities.
*24 May – A fire in the Momart storage warehouse destroys major works by Helen Chadwick, Tracey Emin, Patrick Heron, Damien Hirst and other British artists.
* 18 July – The subterranean Chichu Art Museum on the Japanese island of Naoshima, designed by Tadao Ando, opens.
* 11 December – İstanbul Modern (art museum) is established in Turkey. The country's first modern art museum, the Doğançay Museum, opened earlier in the year, also in Istanbul; it is dedicated to the artistic legacy of Burhan Doğançay.

Works

*David Backhouse – ''Animals in War Memorial'' (London)
*Banksy – ''Di-faced Tenner'' (multiple copies)
*Bruce Beasley – ''Encounter'' (sculpture, Eugene, Oregon)
*Lucian Freud – '' The Brigadier'' (portrait of Andrew Parker Bowles)
*Rachel Joynt – '' Noah's Egg'' (sculpture at Veterinary Sciences Centre, University College Dublin in Ireland)
*Liz Magor – '' LightShed'' (installation, Vancouver)
*Cornelia Parker – ''Perpetual Canon'' (installation)
*Paula Rego – ''The Cake Woman''
*Donald Wilson – ''Holon'' (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
* Statue of Mahatma Gandhi (Houston, Texas)
*Artworks at Millennium Park in Chicago, United States:
**Anish Kapoor – ''Cloud Gate''
**Jaume Plensa – ''Crown Fountain''

Awards

*Archibald Prize – Craig Ruddy, ''David Gulpilil, two worlds''
* Artes Mundi Prize – Xu Bing
*Beck's Futures – Saskia Olde Wolbers
*Hugo Boss Prize – Rirkrit Tiravanija
*Caldecott Medal for children's book illustration – Mordicai Gerstein, ''The Man Who Walked Between the Towers''
* En Foco's New Works Photography Award – Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
*John Moores Painting Prize – Alexis Harding, ''Slump/Fear (orange/black)''
*Wynne prize – George Tjungurrayi, ''Untitled''

Exhibitions

*Edward Delaney retrospective at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
*''Drawings of Jim Dine'' at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
*''Erich Heckel – His Work in the 1920s'' at the Brücke Museum, Berlin
* Paul Henry at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
*Edward Hopper at the Tate Gallery, London

Films

* Modigliani

Deaths

January to March

*4 January – Jeff Nuttall, English poet, publisher, actor, painter and sculptor (b.1933)
*9 January – Nissim Ezekiel, Indian poet, playwright and art critic (b.1924)
*3 February - Ward Jackson, American painter (b. 1928)
*7 February – Norman Thelwell, English cartoonist (b.1923)
* 4 March – Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer and artist (b.1953)
* 12 March – Milton Resnick, American painter (b.1917)
*13 March – René Laloux, French animator and film director (b.1929)

April to June

* 1 April – Enrique Grau, Colombian painter and sculptor (b.1920)
*7 April – Wolfgang Mattheuer, German painter and sculptor (b.1927)
*13 April – Muriel Berman, American art collector and philanthropist, co-founder of the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania
*25 April – Jacques Rouxel, French animator (b.1931)
*12 May – Syd Hoff, American children’s book author and cartoonist (b.1912)
*28 May – Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, French photographer (b.1921)
*5 June – Fiore de Henriquez, Italian-born British sculptor (b.1921)
*11 June – Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (b.1946)
* 15 June – Lothar Fischer, German sculptor (b.1933)

July to September

*2 July – John Cullen Murphy, American comics artist (b.1919)
* 19 July – Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor (b.1902)
*3 August – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b.1908)
* 4 August – Cécile Guillame, first woman to engrave a French postal stamps (b.1933).
*8 August – Leon Golub, American painter (b.1922).
* 9 August – Liisi Beckmann, Finnish artist and designer (b.1924).
*8 September – Frank Thomas, American animator (b.1912)
* 19 September – Eddie Adams, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (b.1933)

October to December

*1 October – Richard Avedon, American photographer (b.1923).
* 13 October – Ivor Wood, English stop-motion animator (b.1932).
*15 October – Irv Novick, American comic book artist (b.1916).
*13 November – Harry Lampert, American cartoonist, advertising artist and author (b.1916).
*19 November
**Trina Schart Hyman, American illustrator of children's books (b.1939).
**Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (b.1914).
* 22 November – Leo Dee, American silverpoint artist (b.1931).
*25 November – Ed Paschke, Polish-American painter (b.1939).
*9 December – Sergey Voychenko, Belarusian artist and designer (b.1955).
*16 December – Agnes Martin, Canadian-American painter (b.1912).
*17 December – Tom Wesselmann, American pop artist (b.1931).
*December – Cleve Gray, American Abstract expressionist painter (b.1918).

See also

* List of years in art

References

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2000s in art
Years of the 21st century in art