# 2004 in art

The year 2004 in art involved various significant events and new art works.

## Events

* April – A Belgian activist group cuts off the left hand of a bronze Congolese figure in a monument to Leopold II of Belgium in Ostend as a protest against colonial atrocities.
* 24 May – A fire in the Momart storage warehouse destroys major works by Helen Chadwick, Tracey Emin, Patrick Heron, Damien Hirst and other British artists.
* 18 July – The subterranean Chichu Art Museum on the Japanese island of Naoshima, designed by Tadao Ando, opens.
* 11 December – İstanbul Modern (art museum) is established in Turkey. The country's first modern art museum, the Doğançay Museum, opened earlier in the year, also in Istanbul; it is dedicated to the artistic legacy of Burhan Doğançay.

## Works

* David Backhouse – Animals in War Memorial (London)
* Banksy
** Di-faced Tenner (multiple copies)
** Kissing Coppers (stencil graffiti originally in Brighton)
* Bruce Beasley – Encounter (sculpture, Eugene, Oregon)
* Lucian Freud – The Brigadier (portrait of Andrew Parker Bowles)
* Rachel Joynt – Noah's Egg (sculpture at Veterinary Sciences Centre, University College Dublin in Ireland)
* Liz Magor – LightShed (installation, Vancouver)
* Cornelia Parker – Perpetual Canon (installation)
* Paula Rego – The Cake Woman
* Donald Wilson – Holon (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
* Statue of Mahatma Gandhi (Houston, Texas)
* Artworks at Millennium Park in Chicago, United States:
** Anish Kapoor – Cloud Gate
** Jaume Plensa – Crown Fountain

## Awards

* Archibald Prize – Craig Ruddy, David Gulpilil, two worlds
* Artes Mundi Prize – Xu Bing
* Beck's Futures – Saskia Olde Wolbers
* Hugo Boss Prize – Rirkrit Tiravanija
* Caldecott Medal for children's book illustration – Mordicai Gerstein, The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
* En Foco's New Works Photography Award – Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
* John Moores Painting Prize – Alexis Harding, Slump/Fear (orange/black)
* Wynne prize – George Tjungurrayi, Untitled

## Exhibitions

* Edward Delaney retrospective at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
* Drawings of Jim Dine at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
* Erich Heckel – His Work in the 1920s at the Brücke Museum, Berlin
* Paul Henry at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
* Edward Hopper at the Tate Gallery, London

## Films

* Modigliani

## Deaths
### January to March

* 4 January – Jeff Nuttall, English poet, publisher, actor, painter and sculptor (b.1933)
* 9 January – Nissim Ezekiel, Indian poet, playwright and art critic (b.1924)
* 3 February - Ward Jackson, American painter (b. 1928)
* 7 February – Norman Thelwell, English cartoonist (b.1923)
* 4 March – Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer and artist (b.1953)
* 12 March – Milton Resnick, American painter (b.1917)
* 13 March – René Laloux, French animator and film director (b.1929)
* 27 March - Gerome Kamrowski, American artist (b.1914)

### April to June

* 1 April – Enrique Grau, Colombian painter and sculptor (b.1920)
* 7 April – Wolfgang Mattheuer, German painter and sculptor (b.1927)
* 13 April – Muriel Berman, American art collector and philanthropist, co-founder of the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania
* 25 April – Jacques Rouxel, French animator (b.1931)
* 12 May – Syd Hoff, American children’s book author and cartoonist (b.1912)
* 28 May – Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, French photographer (b.1921)
* 5 June – Fiore de Henriquez, Italian-born British sculptor (b.1921)
* 11 June – Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (b.1946)
* 15 June – Lothar Fischer, German sculptor (b.1933)

### July to September

* 2 July – John Cullen Murphy, American comics artist (b.1919)
* 19 July – Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor (b.1902)
* 3 August – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b.1908)
* 4 August – Cécile Guillame, first woman to engrave a French postal stamps (b.1933).
* 8 August – Leon Golub, American painter (b.1922).
* 9 August – Liisi Beckmann, Finnish artist and designer (b.1924).
* 8 September – Frank Thomas, American animator (b.1912)
* 19 September – Eddie Adams, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (b.1933)

### October to December

* 1 October – Richard Avedon, American photographer (b.1923).
* 13 October – Ivor Wood, English stop-motion animator (b.1932).
* 15 October – Irv Novick, American comic book artist (b.1916).
* 13 November – Harry Lampert, American cartoonist, advertising artist and author (b.1916).
* 19 November
** Trina Schart Hyman, American illustrator of children's books (b.1939).
** Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (b.1914).
* 22 November – Leo Dee, American silverpoint artist (b.1931).
* 25 November – Ed Paschke, Polish-American painter (b.1939).
* 9 December – Sergey Voychenko, Belarusian artist and designer (b.1955).
* 16 December – Agnes Martin, Canadian-American painter (b.1912).
* 17 December – Tom Wesselmann, American pop artist (b.1931).
* December – Cleve Gray, American Abstract expressionist painter (b.1918).