1977 in art
Events
    
- April 19 – Yale Center for British Art gallery, designed by Louis Kahn (died 1974), opens to the public in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
 - May 8–24 – Suzanne Lacy's extended performance piece about rape, Three Weeks in May takes place in Los Angeles.[1]
 - September 12 – American poet Robert Lowell dies having suffered a heart attack in the back of a cab in New York City while returning to his ex-wife Elizabeth Hardwick carrying a portrait of his current wife Lady Caroline Blackwood by her first husband Lucian Freud.
 - Starr Kempf constructs the first of his "wind sculptures".
 - documenta 6 takes place.
 - Douglas Crimp curates "Pictures," featuring Jack Goldstein, Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine and others, at Artists Space in New York.
 - Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Iran, designed by Kamran Diba, is inaugurated.
 
Awards
    
- Archibald Prize: Kevin Connor – Robert Klippel
 
Exhibitions
    
- Retrospective of Valentine Hugo at the Centre Culturel Thibaud de Champagne, Troyes.
 - Retrospective of Frida Kahlo at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.
 
Works
    
- Marina Abramović and Ulay – Expansion in Space
 - Walter De Maria – The Lightning Field (land art)
 - Lucian Freud – Naked Man with Rat
 - Tina Girouard - "Pinwheel" (performance instillation at the New Orleans Museum of Art)[2]
 - Gilbert & George – Series of Red Morning works
 - David Hockney – My Parents
 - Donald Judd – Untitled (Meter Box)
 - Nabil Kanso – The Vortices of Wrath (Lebanon 1977)
 - Jacob Lawrence – Self-portrait
 - Jacques Lipchitz – Bellerophon Taming Pegasus (sculpture, New York City)
 - Kathleen McCullough – Cat in Repose (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
 - Gordon Matta-Clark – Jacob's Ladder
 - Ivan Meštrović – Martin Kukučín (sculptures)
 - Robert Morris – Williams Mirrors
 - Maria Prymachenko - Two-Headed Chicken[3]
 - David Shepherd – Tiger in the Sun
 - Cindy Sherman – Untitled Film Stills (through 1980)
 - C. Talacca – Bust of Simón Bolívar (bronze, Houston, Texas)
 - Jean Tinguely – Tinguely Fountain and Carnival Fountain (Fasnachtsbrunnen) (both kinetic sculptures in Basel)
 - Don Wilson – Interlocking Forms (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
 - Felix de Weldon – Statue of Ty Cobb (bronze, Royston, Georgia)
 - Audrey Flack - World War II (Vanitas)
 
Births
    
- 8 February – Yucef Merhi, Venezuelan artist, poet and computer programmer.
 - 16 April – Florentijn Hofman, Dutch installation artist.
 - 14 May – Emeka Ogboh, Nigerian sound and installation artist.
 - 5 October – Hugleikur Dagsson, Icelandic cartoonist
 - Michael Dean, English sculptor.
 - Gregory Halpern, American photographer.
 
Deaths
    
- 27 April – Charles Alston, American artist, muralist, and teacher (b. 1907).
 - 27 June – Ivan Tabaković, Serbian painter (b. 1898)
 - 3 July – Gertrude Abercrombie, American painter (b. 1909).
 - 21 July – Lee Miller, American photographer (b. 1907).
 - 23 August – Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor (b. 1890).
 - 3 September – Gianni Vella, Maltese painter and cartoonist (b. 1885)[4]
 - 11 September – Augustus Dunbier, American painter (b. 1888).
 - 23 September – John Nash, English painter, illustrator, and engraver (b. 1893).
 - 25 September – William McMillan, Scottish sculptor (b. 1887) (victim of assault).
 - 20 October – Marie-Thérèse Walter, mistress of Pablo Picasso (b. 1909).
 - 4 November – Keith Vaughan, English painter (b. 1912) (suicide).
 - 5 November – René Goscinny, French comic book author, editor and humorist (b. 1926).
 - 21 December – Seán Keating, Irish romantic-realist painter (b. 1889).
 
Full date unknown
    
- Philip Lindsey Clark, English sculptor (b. 1889)
 - Pan Yuliang, Chinese-born painter (b. 1899)
 - Walter Pritchard, Scottish stained glass artist, muralist and sculptor (b. 1905)
 
References
    
- Fryd, Vivien Green (Spring 2007). "Suzanne Lacy's Three Weeks in May: Feminist Activist Performance Art as "Expanded Public Pedagogy"". NWSA Journal. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 19 (1): 23–38. JSTOR 4317229. S2CID 201751753.
 - "The Kitchen: Tina Girouard: Pinwheel".
 - Stevens, Matt (28 February 2022). "Treasured Paintings Burned in Russian Invasion, Ukrainian Officials Say". The New York Times.
 - Schiavone, Michael J. (2009). Dictionary of Maltese Biographies Vol. 2 G–Z. Pietà: Pubblikazzjonijiet Indipendenza. pp. 1594–1595. ISBN 9789993291329.
 
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