1992 in art
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- 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.[1]
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)[2]
- 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"[3]
Exhibitions
- "Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.[4]
- Edward Delaney retrospective – Royal Hibernian Academy.
- Richard Hamilton retrospective – Tate Gallery.
- Sol LeWitt Drawings 1958–1992 – Kunstmuseum Den Haag (then known as Gemeentemuseum)[5]
- 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.[6]