2002 in art

List of years in art (table)
... 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 ... 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 ... 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 ...
Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Philosophy Science +...

Events

• 21 May – Extensions to the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace, London, designed by John Simpson, are opened.
• 3 July – Decapitation of a statue of Margaret Thatcher: a man decapitates a statue of former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher on display at the Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London.
• 10 July – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson of Fleet.
• 13 July – Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art opens in the converted Baltic Flour Mill at Gateshead in North East England.
• 29 August – Frida, a biopic starring Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo, receives its world première at the Venice International Film Festival.
• 22 November - Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art opens to the public in Amherst, Massachusetts.
• 14 December – New building for the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas, designed by Tadao Ando, opens to the public.

Full date unknown

• A sculpture by Henri Matisse, Reclining Nude I (Dawn), is sold for US$ 9.2 million, a record for a Matisse sculpture.

Awards

• Archibald Prize – Cherry Hood, Simon Tedeschi Unplugged
• Beck's Futures – Toby Paterson
• Hugo Boss Prize – Pierre Huyghe
• Turner Prize – Keith Tyson
• Wynne Prize – Angus Nivision, Remembering Rain

Works

See also: Category:2002 sculptures

• Ken Currie – Three Oncologists
• Anish Kapoor – Marsyas (Tate Modern)
• Ron Mueck – Mask II (sculpture)

Deaths

January to June

• 30 January – Inge Morath, Austrian photographer (b. 1923)
• February – Víctor Grippo, painter, engraver and sculptor, the father of conceptual art in Argentina (b. 1936)
• 12 March – Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
• 22 May – Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor, painter, and film maker (b. 1930).
• 12 June – Bill Blass, American fashion designer (b. 1922).

July to December

• 8 July – Ward Kimball, American Academy Award-winning animator (b. 1914).
• 13 July – Yousuf Karsh, Armenian-Canadian photographer (b. 1908).
• 17 July – George Rickey, American kinetic sculptor (b. 1907).
• 22 August – Richard Lippold, American sculptor (b. 1915).
• 23 November – Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (b. 1911).
• 9 December
  • Ian Hornak, American painter and draughtsman (b. 1944).
  • Stan Rice, American poet and artist (b. 1942).
• 26 December – Herb Ritts, American photographer (b. 1952).