2007 in art
Overview of the events of 2007 in art
The year 2007 in art involved some significant events and new works.
Events
Exhibitions
Awards
Works
Sanford Biggers - Blossom [ 11]
Ed Dwight – Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (sculpture, Houston, Texas)
Russ Faxon – Statue of John Stith Pemberton (sculpture, Atlanta)
Valerie Hegarty - Fallen Bierstadt (after A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie by Albert Bierstadt )[ 12]
David Hockney – Bigger Trees Near Warter
Zhang Huan - Three Legged Buddha (sculpture)[ 13]
Maya Lin - Above and Below (sculpture, Indianapolis Museum of Art )
John Ney Michel and Christopher Liberatos – Statue of William Moultrie (sculpture, Charleston, South Carolina)
Stephen Kettle – Statue of Alan Turing (sculpture in slate, Bletchley Park, England)
Jo Ractliffe – Roadside stall on the way to Viana (photograph)
Ian Rank-Broadley – The Stretcher Bearers and The Gates (bronzes, Armed Forces Memorial , Staffordshire, England)
Neo Rauch
Allison Saar – "Swing Low" – Harriet Tubman Memorial (Harriet Tubman Plaza, Harlem , Manhattan , New York City)[ 14]
Doris Salcedo – Shibboleth (installation at Tate Modern , London)
Luke Sullivan – The Fourth Secret of Fatima (sculpture)[ 15] [ 16] [ 17]
James Turrell – Dividing the Light (installation at Pomona College , Claremont , California, United States)
Deaths
January to March
8 January – Iwao Takamoto , Japanese American animator , television producer and film director (b.1925 ).
11 January – Bryan Pearce , English naïve painter (b.1929 ).
20 January – Dan Christensen , American abstract painter (b.1942 ).
4 February – Jules Olitski , American abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor (b.1922 ).
6 February – Heinz Berggruen , German art collector
14 February – Emmett Williams , American poet and Fluxus artist (b.1925 ).
22 February
2 March – Madi Phala , South African artist (b.1955 ).
6 March – Jean Baudrillard , French cultural theorist , sociologist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer (b.1929 ).
16 March – Raymond Nasher , American art collector (b.1921 ).
April to June
7 April – Johnny Hart , American cartoonist (b.1931 ).
8 April – Sol LeWitt , American conceptual and minimalist artist (b.1928 ).
10 April – Salvatore Scarpitta , American sculptor (b.1919 ).
15 April – Brant Parker , American cartoonist (b.1920 ).
17 April – Kitty Carlisle Hart , American singer, actress, and New York State Council on the Arts member (b.1910 ).
3 May – Warja Honegger-Lavater , Swiss artist and illustrator (b.1913 ).
26 May – James Beck , American art historian (b.1930 ).
28 May – Jörg Immendorff , German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor (b.1945 ; ALS ).[ 19]
2 June – Jerry Wilkerson , American painter (b.1943 ).
17 June – Gianfranco Ferré , Italian fashion designer (b.1944 ).
22 June – Bernd Becher , German photographer (b.1931 ).
26 June – Liz Claiborne , Belgian-born American fashion designer and entrepreneur (b.1929 ).
July to September
7 July – John Szarkowski , American photographer, curator , historian, and critic (b.1925 ).
17 July – Jeremy Blake , American digital artist and painter (b.1971 ).
22 July – Aleksandr Tatarskiy , Russian animator, artist, and film director (b.1950 ).
9 August – Joe O'Donnell , American photographer (b.1922 ).
11 August – Maurice Boitel , French painter (b.1919 ).
12 August
17 August – Edward Avedisian , American abstract painter (b.1936 ).
24 September – Lenore Tawney , American fiber artist (b.1907 ).
25 September – André Emmerich , American gallerist.
October to December
Undated
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