1993 in art

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The year 1993 in art involved some significant events.

Events

• 7 March – Beavis and Butt-head first appears on MTV.
• May – Jay Jopling opens the London gallery White Cube. Tracey Emin's first major exhibition, "My Major Retrospective 1963–1993" (sic.) opens here on 19 November.
• 27 May – A car bomb at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence kills five; the Mafia is suspected.
• 21 June – Tate St Ives gallery opens in Cornwall, England.

Full date unknown

• The comic book collecting boom achieves its peak.
• A catalogue of Augustan portraits list 148 replicas of Augustus of Primaporta, plus six done as cameos. The earliest known replica of Augustus is made before 25 BC.
• The Barbie Liberation Organization, as a revolt against gender stereotypes, switches the voice boxes on a reported 300 talking G.I. Joe and Barbie dolls before returning them to stores.

Exhibitions

• Kustom Kulture, Laguna Beach Art Museum
• Harold Parker retrospective, Queensland Art Gallery
• Venice Biennale shows several works by Young British Artists including Damien Hirst's Mother and Child Divided.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Garry Shead – Tom Thompson
• Schock Prize in Visual Arts: Rafael Moneo
• Turner Prize: Rachel Whiteread
• Wolf Prize in Arts: Bruce Nauman

--The Venice Biennale--

• The Lion d'or Golden Lion for Best Pavilion: Hans Haacke and Nam June Paik representing Germany

Works

• Peter Doig – Blotter
• Elisabeth Frink – Risen Christ (Liverpool Cathedral)
• Anya Gallaccio – Stroke
• Rachel Whiteread – House

Deaths

• 26 January – Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and painter (b.1912).
• 28 January – Hannah Wilke, American painter, sculptor and photographer (b.1940).
• 30 January – Svetoslav Roerich, Russian painter (b.1904).
• 19 February – Pietro Pezzati, American painter (b.1902).
• 30 March – Richard Diebenkorn, American painter (b.1922).
• 18 April – Dame Elisabeth Frink, English sculptor (b.1930)
• 3 May – Robert De Niro, Sr., American abstract expressionist painter (b.1922).
• 30 May – Henry Heerup, Danish painter and sculptor (b.1907).
• 6 September – Leonard Bocour, paint-maker, painter (b. 1910).
• 7 December – Abidin Dino, Turkish artist (b.1913).