2004 in art

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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.^[1]
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.

David Backhouse – Animals in War Memorial (London)
Banksy – Di-faced Tenner (multiple copies)
Bruce Beasley – Encounter (sculpture, Eugene, Oregon)
Lucien Freud - "The Brigadier" (portrait of Andrew Parker Bowles)^[2]^[3]
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 (sculpture, Houston, Texas)
Artworks at Millennium Park in Chicago, United States:
- Anish Kapoor – Cloud Gate
- Jaume Plensa – Crown Fountain^[4]^[5]^[6]

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)
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)

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)

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).