2003 in art

• January 21 – The Spire of Dublin is completed.{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/spire-cleaners-get-prime-view-of-city-691362.html|title=Spire cleaners get prime view of city|work=Irish Independent|accessdate=5 June 2007|date=5 June 2007|archive-date=23 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120723193519/http://www.independent.ie/national-news/spire-cleaners-get-prime-view-of-city-691362.html|url-status=live}}
• May 11 – Benvenuto Cellini's Saliera is stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
• June 15–November 2 – A record number of seven co-curators is involved in the 50th edition of the Venice Biennale, directed by Francesco Bonami.[http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/history/recent.html?back=true Venice Biennale official website - Recent Years (2001-2011)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625164744/http://labiennale.org/en/art/history/recent.html?back=true |date=2016-06-25 }}. Accessed 26 March 2014
• August 27 – Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna of the Yarnwinder is stolen from the Duke of Buccleuch collection at Drumlanrig Castle in Scotland.{{cite news|first=Gerard|last=Seenan|url=https://www.theguardian.com/arts/arttheft/story/0,13883,1113797,00.html|title=Thieves steal priceless art 'for status, not profit'|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=2003-12-29|access-date=2023-08-27}} It is recovered in 2007.
• November – Gustav Klimt's Landhaus am Attersee sells for $29,128,000.
• December 25 – Beagle 2 lands on the surface of Mars; its calibration target plate is painted by Damien Hirst.
• date unknown – Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London takes over the Byam Shaw School of Art.

• Jim Sanborn, Critical Assembly, Corcoran School of Art
• Patti Smith, Strange Messenger, The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh
• November 11 until January 31, 2004 - "Assemblage'(Arman, John Chamberlin, Christo, Joseph Cornell, Jim Dine, Marcel Duchamp, George Herms, Edward Kienholz, Larry Rivers, Jason Rhoades, Dieter Roth, Kurt Schwitters, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely, and [Richard Tuttle) at the David Zwirner Gallery) in New York City.https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/2003/assemblage

• Archibald Prize – Geoffrey Dyer, a portrait of Richard Flanagan
• Beck's Futures – Rosalind Nashashibi
• Schock Prize in Visual Arts – Susan Rothenberg
• Turner Prize – Grayson Perry
• The Venice Biennale (June 15 - November 2) -
• The Lion d'Or Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Michelangelo Pistoletto (Italy) and Carol Rama (Italy)
• The Lion d'or for best artwork in the main exhibition: Fischli and Weiss (Switzerland)
• The Lion d'Or for Best Pavilion: Sun-Mei Tse (Luxemburg)
• Wynne Prize – Tim Kyle, Seated Figure

{{See also|Category:2003 sculptures}}

• Eco-Earth Globe, Salem, Oregon
• Jake and Dinos Chapman – Insult to Injury
• Tony Cragg – Stainless Steel Pillar
• Olafur Eliasson – The weather project (installation in Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, London)
• David Fairbairn – Self Portrait DF
• Cornelia Parker – The Distance (A Kiss With String Attached): Subconscious of a Monument (interventionist sculpture)
• Michal Rovner – Data Zone{{Cite web |url=http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/rush/rush7-9-03.asp |title = artnet.com Magazine features - Vindicated at Venice |access-date=2021-09-17 |archive-date=2020-11-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130130815/http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/rush/rush7-9-03.asp |url-status=live }}
• Jørn Utzon – Homage to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (tapestry in the Sydney Opera House)
• Kehinde Wiley – Go

• Girl with a Pearl Earring
• Mona Lisa Smile
• Sound of Colors
• The Floating Landscape
• Turn Left, Turn Right

• 9 January – Constantin Kluge, Russian and French painter (b.1912).
• 20 January – Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (b.1903).
• 21 January – Tony O'Malley, Irish painter (b.1913).
• 27 January – Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor (b.1915).
• 2 February – Emerson Woelffer, American painter (b.1914).
• 10 February – Edgar de Evia, Mexican-born American photographer (b.1910).
• 14 March – Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born American performance and conceptual artist turned painter (b.1945).

• 9 April – Jorge Oteiza, Spanish sculptor, painter, designer and writer (b.1908).
• 16 April – Graham Stuart Thomas, English horticultural artist, author and garden designer (b.1909).
• 23 April – Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (b.1910).
• 25 April – Lynn Chadwick, 88, English sculptor
• 29 May – Pierre Restany, French art critic and cultural philosopher (b.1930).
• 7 June – Georges Pichard, French comics artist (b.1920).

• 11 July - Dorothy Miller, 99, American curator (b.1904).
• 15 August – Kirk Varnedoe, American art historian, writer and curator (b.1946).
• 21 August – Wesley Willis, American artist and musician (b.1963).
• 29 August – Vladimír Vašíček, Czech painter (b.1919).
• 1 September – Terry Frost, English artist noted for his abstracts (b.1915).

• 3 October – William Steig, American cartoonist, sculptor and author (b.1907).
• 16 October – Avni Arbaş, Turkish artist (b.1919).
• 9 November – Mario Merz, Italian artist (b.1925).
• 4 December – David Vaughan, English psychedelic artist and muralist (b. 1944).
• 15 December – George Fisher, American political cartoonist (b.1923).
• 17 December – Wally Hedrick, American artist (b.1928).

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