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Contents 1 Events 2 Exhibitions 3 Awards 4 Works 5 Births 6 Deaths 6.1 January to June 6.2 July to August 6.3 Full date unknown

[edit] Events

• Opening of the Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, designed by Steven Holl

[edit] Exhibitions

• Freeze, Surrey Docks, London

[edit] Awards

• Archibald Prize: Fred Cress - John Beard
• Turner Prize - Tony Cragg

[edit] Works

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January to June

• 19 March - Isabel Bishop, American painter and graphic artist (b.1902).
• 31 March - Georges Lévis, French comic artist (b.1924).
• 3 April - Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (b.1907).
• 17 April - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American artist (b.1899).
• 16 May - Charles Keeping, English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer (b.1924).
• 16 June - Andrea Pazienza, Italian comics artist (b.1956).

[edit] July to August

• 12 August - Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist (b.1960).
• 29 September - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b.1912).
• 12 November - Primo Conti, Italian Futurist artist (b.1900).
• 2 December - Kimon Evan Marengo, Egyptian-born British cartoonist (b.1904).
• 30 December - Isamu Noguchi, Japanese American artist and landscape architect (b.1904).

[edit] Full date unknown

• Chambré Hardman, Irish photographer (b.1898).