1998 in art

Events

Exhibitions

*1 November - Jackson Pollock retrospective opens at MoMA.

Awards

*Archibald Prize - Lewis Miller, "Portrait of Allan Mitelman No 3"
*Grand Prix d'Antoine Pevsner - Constantine Andreou
*Turner Prize - Chris Ofili
*Hugo Boss Prize - Douglas Gordon

Artworks

*"Angel of the North" by Anthony Gormley

Deaths

*23 January - Victor Pasmore, English artist and architect (b.1908).
*12 March - Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (b.1893).
*13 March - Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b.1920).
*21 April - Louis Maratier, French post-impressionist artist and painter (b.1922).
*25 April - Wright Morris, American novelist, photographer, and essayist (b.1910).
*6 May - Sybil Connolly, Welsh-Irish fashion designer (b.1921).
*8 October - Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist and sculptor (b.1907).
*3 November - Bob Kane, American comic book artist and writer (b.1915).
*13 November - Claude Serre, French cartoonist (b.1938).
*2 December - Brian Stonehouse, English painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War II (b.1918).

Full date unknown

*Dick Higgins, English composer, poet, printer and early Fluxus artist (b.1938).