1988 in art
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Contents
Events
- Opening of the Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, designed by Steven Holl
Exhibitions
- Freeze, Surrey Docks, London
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Fred Cress – John Beard
- Turner Prize – Tony Cragg
Works
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- Artists of Ramingining, Northern Territory, Australia – Aboriginal Memorial
- Francis Bacon – Second Version of Triptych 1944
- Gordon Bennett – Outsider
- Eldon Garnet – Little Glenn (bronze statue)
- Rachel Joynt – People's Island (brass installation, Dublin)
- Nabil Kanso – Dance of Salome (first series)
- Richard Lippold – Ex Stasis (sculpture)
- Paul Matisse – Kendall Band (sound sculpture)
- David K. Nelson, Jr. – Mirth & Girth
- Louise Nevelson – Sky Landscape (sculpture)
- Éamonn O'Doherty – Anna Livia (bronze installation, Dublin)
- Paula Rego – The Dance
- Gerhard Richter – Betty
- Susan Dorothea White – The First Supper
Births
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Deaths
January to June
- 19 March – Isabel Bishop, American painter and graphic artist (b. 1902).
- 28 March – Neil Williams, American painter (b. 1934).
- 31 March – Georges Lévis, French comic artist (b. 1924).
- 3 April – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907).
- 17 April – Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American artist (b. 1900).
- 4 May – Stanley Hayter, English-born printmaker (b. 1901).
- 16 May – Charles Keeping, English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer (b. 1924).
- 16 June – Andrea Pazienza, Italian comics artist (b. 1956).
July to December
- 12 July – Julian Trevelyan, English printmaker (b.1910).
- 12 August – Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist (b. 1960).
- 21 August – Ray Eames, American artist and architect (b. 1912).
- 29 September – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912).
- 12 November – Primo Conti, Italian Futurist artist (b. 1900).
- 25 November - Alphaeus Philemon Cole, American portrait artist (b. 1876 [sic.])
- 2 December – Kimon Evan Marengo, Egyptian-born British cartoonist (b. 1904).
- 30 December – Isamu Noguchi, Japanese American artist and landscape architect (b. 1904).
- date unknown
- Reginald George Haggar, ceramic designer
- Chambré Hardman, Irish photographer (b. 1898).
- Nedeljko Gvozdenović, a world-renowned Serbian painter (b. 1902).
