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The year 1993 in art involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 Full date unknown 2 Exhibitions 3 Awards 4 Works 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• 27 May – A car bomb at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence kills five; the Mafia is suspected.

[edit] Full date unknown

• Jay Jopling opens the London gallery White Cube.
• Beavis and Butt-head first appears on MTV.
• The comic book collecting boom achieves its peak.
• A catalogue of Augustan portraits list 148 replicas of Augustus of Primaporta, plus 6 done as cameos. Before 25 BC the earliest known replica of Augustus of Primaporta is made.

[edit] Exhibitions

• Kustom Kulture, Laguna Beach Art Museum
• Harold Parker retrospective, Queensland Art Gallery
• Venice Biennale shows several works by Young British Artists including Damien Hirst's Mother and Child Divided.

[edit] Awards

• Archibald Prize: Garry Shead - Tom Thompson
• Schock Prize in Visual Arts: Rafael Moneo
• Turner Prize: Rachel Whiteread
• Wolf Prize in Arts: Bruce Nauman

[edit] Works

• Peter Doig - Blotter
• Anya Gallaccio - Stroke

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• 26 January - Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and painter (b.1912).
• 28 January - Hannah Wilke, American painter, sculptor and photographer (b.1940).
• 30 January - Svetoslav Roerich, Russian painter (b.1904).
• 19 February - Pietro Pezzati, American painter (b.1902).
• 30 March - Richard Diebenkorn, American painter (b.1922).
• 3 May - Robert De Niro, Sr., American abstract expressionist painter (b.1922).
• 30 May - Henry Heerup, Danish painter and sculptor (b.1907).
• 6 September - Leonard Bocour, paint-maker, painter (b. 1910).
• 7 December - Abidin Dino, Turkish artist (b.1913).