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The year 1993 in art involved some significant events.

Events

• Jay Jopling opens the London gallery White Cube.
• Beavis and Butt-head first appears on MTV.
• The comic book collecting boom achieves its peak.

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.

Awards

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

Works

• Peter Doig - Blotter
• Anya Gallaccio - Stroke

Births

Deaths

• January 9 - Svetoslav Roerich, painter
• January 28 - Hannah Wilke, artist
• February 19 - Pietro Pezzati, portrait painter
• March 30 - Richard Diebenkorn, painter
• May 3 - Robert De Niro, Sr., abstract expressionist painter
• May 30 - Henry Heerup, painter and sculptor
• December 7 - Abidin Dino, painter