1994 in art

Events

• February 12 – Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is stolen, in Oslo (recovered on May 7).
• April 8 – Restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes: Michelangelo's The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel (Vatican City) is reopened to the public after 10 years of restoration.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Francis Giacco – Homage to John Reichard
• Turner Prize: Antony Gormley

Works

• Angkor I, Lake Oswego, Oregon
• Driver's Seat, Portland, Oregon
• Fiorello H. La Guardia (Estern), New York City
• Jake and Dinos Chapman – Great Deeds Against the Dead (sculpture)
• Martin Creed – Work No 88: A sheet of A4 paper crumpled into a ball
• K Foundation - K Foundation Burn a Million Quid
• Helen Frankenthaler – All About Blue
• Damien Hirst – Away from the Flock
• Odd Nerdrum – Woman Kills Injured Man
• Luis Royo – The Seeds of Nothing^[1]
• Rob Turner – Sutton Heritage Mosaic
• Bill Woodrow – In Awe of the Pawnbroker

Births

• July 9 – Akiane Kramarik, American art and poetry prodigy.

Deaths

January to June

• February 6 – Jack Kirby, American comic book artist, writer and editor (b. 1917).
• February 11 – Max Leognany, French artist (b. 1913).
• February 12 – Donald Judd, American sculptor (b. 1928).
• March 22 – Walter Lantz, American cartoonist and animator (b. 1899).
• April 1 – Robert Doisneau, French photographer (b. 1912).
• April 14 – Jean Joyet, French artist (b. 1919).
• May 7 – Clement Greenberg, American art critic (b. 1909).
• May 12 – Sir Alfred Beit, 2nd Baronet, British politician, art collector and philanthropist and honorary Irish citizen (b. 1903).

July to September

• July 3 – Felix Kelly, New Zealand-born British artist (b. 1914).
• July 20 – Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (b. 1897).
• August 16 – Henry Geldzahler, American museum curator, (b. 1935)
• September – Bruce Ariss, American artist (b. 1911).
• November 4 – Sam Francis, American painter and printmaker (b. 1923).
• November 20 – Umaña, Colombian artist (b. 1908).
• December 31 – Leigh Bowery, Australian performance artist, club promoter, actor, model and fashion designer (b. 1961).

Date unknown:

• Janko Brašić, Serbian painter (b. 1906)

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