1982 in art

Events

• Andy Warhol "falls in love" with Duran Duran at a Blondie concert.
• Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe's animations play a major part in the success of the film version of Pink Floyd's The Wall.
• Photographer Jacqueline Livingston opens Jacqueline Livingston "A One Artist Gallery" in New York's Soho showing a different body of her work monthly for one year. Livingston and her gallery are placed under FBI surveillance because of accusations of child pornography.the artist.>
• December 28 – Snow v Eaton Centre Ltd decided: the Ontario High Court of Justice affirms the artist's right to integrity of his work.

  Awards

• Archibald Prize: Eric Smith – Peter Sculthorpe
• John Moores Painting Prize - John Hoyland for "Broken Bride 13.6.82"
• John Player Portrait Award: Humphrey Ocean

  Films

• 66 Scenes from America

  Works

Paintings

• Michael Andrews – Sax AD 832
• Avigdor Arikha – Marie-Catherine
• Wolf Kahn – My Barn on a Summer Night, Hirshhorn Museum
• Henry Moore – The Artist's Hands I
• Euan Uglow – Zagi

  Other

• Joseph Beuys 7000 Oaks – City Forestation Instead of City Administration at Documenta 7, Kassel
• Daniel Buren - "Les Guirlandes"
• Joan Miró and Joan Gardy Artigas – Dona i Ocell
• Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint-Phalle – Fontaine des automates, Paris

  Exhibitions

Births

• August 22 – Ash Lieb, Australian artist
• December 10 – Zuzana Čížková, Czech painter and sculptor
• Tris Vonna-Michell, British installation artist
• Approximate date – Bambi Graffiti, English graffiti artist
• Jeff Gibbons, American artist

  Deaths

• January 17 – Juan O'Gorman, Mexican painter and architect
• January 27 – Félix Labisse, French painter and designer
• February 6 – Ben Nicholson, English abstract painter
• June 10 – Gala Dalí, Russian artist's model
• June 29 – Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer
• August 3 – David Carritt, English art historian, dealer and critic
• September 11 – Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist
• September 17 – Ettore DeGrazia, American impressionist, painter, sculptor and lithographer
• October 9 – Charles E. Brown, English aviation photographer
• October 10 – Jean Effel, French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist
• November 3 – Alejandro Bustillo, Argentine painter and architect
• November 27 – Radomir Stević Ras, Serbian painter and designer