The year 2004 in art involved some significant events and new art works.
Events
- 24 May â€" A fire in the Momart storage warehouse destroys major works by Helen Chadwick, Tracey Emin, Patrick Heron, Damien Hirst and other British artists.
Works
- David Backhouse â€" Animals in War Memorial (London)
- Rachel Joynt â€" Noah's Egg (sculpture at Veterinary Sciences Centre, University College Dublin in Ireland)
- Cornelia Parker â€" Perpetual Canon (installation)
- Artworks at Millennium Park in Chicago, United States:
- Anish Kapoor â€" Cloud Gate
- Jaume Plensa â€" Crown Fountain
Awards
- Archibald Prize â€" Craig Ruddy, David Gulpilil, two worlds
- Beck's Futures â€" Saskia Olde Wolbers
- Caldecott Medal for children's book illustration â€" Mordicai Gerstein, The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
- En Foco's New Works Photography Award â€" Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
- Hugo Boss Prize- Rirkrit Tiravanija
- Wynne prize â€" George Tjungurrayi, Untitled
Exhibitions
- Edward Delaney retrospective â€" Royal Hibernian Academy
- Erich Heckel â€" His Work in the 1920s, Brücke Museum, Berlin
- Paul Henry at the National Gallery of Ireland
- Edward Hopper at the Tate Gallery, London
- "Drawings of Jim Dine" at the National Gallery of Art, Washington
Deaths
January to March
- 4 January â€" Jeff Nuttall, English poet, publisher, actor, painter and sculptor (b.1933)
- 9 January â€" Nissim Ezekiel, Indian poet, playwright and art critic (b.1924)
- 7 February â€" Norman Thelwell, English cartoonist (b.1923)
- 4 March â€" Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer and artist (b.1953)
- 12 March - Milton Resnick, American Painter (b. 1917)
- 13 March â€" René Laloux, French animator and film director (b.1929)
April to June
- 1 April â€" Enrique Grau, Colombian painter and sculptor (b.1920)
- 25 April â€" Jacques Rouxel, French animator (b.1931).
- 12 May â€" Syd Hoff, American children’s book author and cartoonist (b.1912)
- 28 May â€" Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, French photographer (b.1921)
- 11 June â€" Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (b.1946)
- 15 June â€" Lothar Fischer, German sculptor (b.1933)
July to September
- 2 July â€" John Cullen Murphy, American comics artist (b.1919)
- 19 July â€" Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor (b.1902)
- 3 August â€" Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b.1908)
- 4 August â€" Cécile Guillame, first woman to engrave a French postal stamps (b.1933).
- 8 August â€" Leon Golub, American painter (b.1922).
- 8 September â€" Frank Thomas, American animator (b.1912)
- 19 September â€" Eddie Adams, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (b.1933)
October to December
- 1 October â€" Richard Avedon, American photographer (b.1923).
- 13 October â€" Ivor Wood, English stop-motion animator (b.1932).
- 15 October â€" Irv Novick, American comic book artist (b.1916).
- 13 November â€" 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)
- 9 December â€" Sergey Voychenko, Belarusian artist and designer (b.1955).
- 16 December â€" Agnes Martin, Canadian-American painter (b.1912).
- 17 December â€" Tom Wesselmann, American pop artist (b.1931).
- December â€" Cleve Gray, American Abstract expressionist painter (b.1918).
See also
- List of years in art