2004 in art

See also 2003 in art, 2005 in art, List of years in Art

Awards

• Archibald Prize – Craig Ruddy

Works

• Marco Evaristti creates Ice Cube Project by selecting and then painting an ice berg in the Arctic.

Exhibitions

• July 9 – July 11 – Toronto Street Festival and Outdoor Art Exhibition

Births

Deaths

• January 4 – Jeff Nuttall, painter and sculptor
• January 9 – Nissim Ezekiel, art critic
• February 7 – Norman Thelwell, cartoonist
• April 1 – Enrique Grau, painter and sculptor
• May 12 – Syd Hoff, cartoonist
• July 2 – John Cullen Murphy, cartoonist
• August 3 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographer
• August 8 – Leon Golub, artist
• August 25 – Don Ashton, film art director and designer
• October 13 – Ivor Wood, animator
• October 15 – Irv Novick, comic book artist
• November 13 – Harry Lampert, cartoonist and advertising artist
• November 19 – Trina Schart Hyman, illustrator
• December 9 – Sergey Voychenko, artist/designer
• December 16 – Agnes Martin, abstract painter
• December 17 – Tom Wesselmann, pop artist