1991 in art

See also: 1990 in art, other events of 1991, 1992 in art, list of years in art.

Events

• Opening of the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
• Michael De Caso invents Rectoversion.

Awards

• Turner Prize - Anish Kapoor

Works

• Las niñas en la alborada - Félix Arauz
• The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living - Damien Hirst
• Isolated Elements Swimming in the Same Direction for the Purposes of Understanding - Damien Hirst
• Self - Marc Quinn

Deaths

• February 7 - Jean-Paul Mousseau, painter of the Automatiste school
• February 13 - Arno Breker, sculptor
• July 16 - Robert Motherwell, Expressionist painter
• August 30 - Jean Tinguely, painter and sculptor
• October 24 - Ismat Chughtai, artist and writer
• November 7 - Tom of Finland, fetish artist
• unknown date - Reg Parlett, cartoonist