2008 in art

Events

Exhibitions

Awards

* Caldecott Medal - Brian Selznick, "The Invention of Hugo Cabret"
* Doug Moran National Portrait Prize - Fiona Lowry
* Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts - Mona Hatoum
* Turner Prize nominees - Runa Islam, Mark Leckey, Goshka Macuga and Cathy Wilkes.

Deaths

January to March

*3 January - Joan Gillchrest, 89, British painter.
*2 February - Roger Testu, French cartoonist (b.1913).
*3 March - William Brice, American painter and teacher (b.1921).
*11 March - Dave Stevens, American illustrator and comics artist (b.1955).
*19 March - Hugo Claus, Belgian novelist, poet, playwright, painter and film director (b.1929).
*28 March - Michael Podro, English art historian (b.1931).
*29 March - Angus Fairhurst, Young British Artist, installation, photography and video artist (b.1966).
*29 March - Josef Mikl, Austrian abstract painter (b.1929).

April to June

*3 April - Vladimír Preclík, Czech writer and sculptor (b.1929).
*9 April - Burt Glinn, American photographer (b.1925).
*14 April - Ollie Johnston, American animator (b.1912).
*16 April - Joseph Solman, American painter (b.1909).
*23 April - Paul Wonner, American painter (b.1920).
*25 April - Enrico Donati, Italian- born American Surrealist painter and sculptor (b.1909).
*10 May - Herbert Albert, 82, British painter and etcher.
*12 May - Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (b.1925).
*15 May - Will Elder, American illustrator and comic book artist (b.1921).
*18 May - Pietro Cascella, Italian painter and sculptor (b.1921).
*21 May - Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, Portuguese artist and professor (b.1931).
*23 May - Cornell Capa, Hungarian-American photographer and photo curator (b.1918).
*28 May - Beryl Cook, English painter (b.1926).
*1 June - Alton Kelley, American poster and album artist (b.1940).
*1 June - Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (b.1936).
*18 June - Tasha Tudor, American illustrator and author of children's books (b.1915).

July to December

*7 July - Bruce Conner, American artist in film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage and photography (b.1933).
*7 July - Fred Yates, English artist (b.1922).
*1 August - Pauline Baynes, English book illustrator (b.1922).
*12 August - Michael Baxandall, Welsh art historian (b.1933).
*18 August - Manny Farber, American painter and film critic (b.1917).
*23 August - John Russell, British American art critic (b.1919).
*3 September - Derek Davis, English painter and potter (b.1926).
*4 September - Alain Jacquet, French artist (b.1939).
*1 October - Boris Efimov, Russian cartoonist and propaganda artist (b.1900).