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The year 1997 in art involved some significant events.

Events

• Puppy by Jeff Koons is moved from Sydney Harbour to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
• Robert Colescott becomes the first African-American to represent the United States in a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennial.

Exhibitions

• Sensation opens at the Royal Academy of Art in London.
• Documenta X opens in Kassel

Awards

• Archibald Prize - Nigel Thomson, Barbara Blackman
• Schock Prize in Visual Arts - Torsten Andersson
• Turner Prize - Gillian Wearing

Artworks

• Another Place by Antony Gormley

Deaths

• March 7 - Martin Kippenberger, 44, German "bad boy" artist
• March 11 - Sam Golden, paintmaker
• March 21 - Willem de Kooning, painter
• July 16 - Dora Maar, photographer and painter, lover of Pablo Picasso
• September 29 - Roy Lichtenstein, painter
• December 16 - Lillian Disney, artist and wife of Walt Disney