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The year 2022 in art involved various significant events.

The year 2022 was eventful in the art world, filled with both record-breaking achievements and notable social statements.

One major highlight was the sale of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen's art collection, which fetched an unprecedented $1.5 billion at Christie's, breaking multiple artist records and becoming the largest single-owner sale in auction history.{{Cite web |last=Christie's |date=November 2022 |title=Achieving $1.5 billion in a single evening, Visionary: The Paul G. Allen Collection is the biggest sale in auction history |url=https://www.christies.com/en/events/visionary-the-paul-g-allen-collection/overview }} Key pieces included works by Georges Seurat, Gustav Klimt, and Paul Cézanne, each selling for over $100 million. The proceeds were directed to charity per Allen's wishes.[https://magazine.artland.com/art-world-2022-review/ The Art Year in Review 2022 Edition]

Climate change activism also made waves as protesters targeted renowned artworks worldwide. Protesters aimed to draw attention to environmental issues by targeting highly publicized works, all of which were fortunately protected under glass. In May, the Mona Lisa at the Louvre was smeared with cake. Mashed potatoes were thrown at a Claude Monet the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany. Furthermore, tomato soup was splashed on a van Gogh painting at the National Gallery in London.{{Cite web |date=2022-12-15 |title=The Defining Artworks of 2022 |url=https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/defining-artworks-of-1234650090/ |access-date=2025-01-09 |website=ARTnews.com |language=en-US}}

Artificial Intelligence (AI) also became a more prominent tool in the art scene. The release of DALL·E 2 and other AI tools brought new possibilities for digital art creation, transforming the landscape and offering artists innovative ways to express ideas through machine-aided design.

Artists notably continued exploring the impacts of racism, colonialism and misogyny on society.

Art history also saw changes as women artists and artists of color were seen anew. Experts upended the previous conceptions of famous works.

These highlights, alongside the ongoing NFT market turbulence and art market resilience amidst global financial uncertainty, made 2022 a dynamic year for art.

Events

  • February - Twenty five works by the Ukrainian painter Maria Prymachenko are believed to have been destroyed by a fire which consumed the Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum (where they were housed) in Ivankiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine during the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/arts/design/maria-primachenko-paintings-destroyed-ukraine.html | title=Treasured Paintings Burned in Russian Invasion, Ukrainian Officials Say | newspaper=The New York Times | date=28 February 2022 | last1=Stevens | first1=Matt | last2=Bowley | first2=Graham }}{{cite web | url=https://nowthisnews.com/news/ukrainian-culture-and-art-comes-under-attack-in-the-wake-of-russias-invasion | title=Ukrainian Culture and Art Comes Under Attack in the Wake of Russia's Invasion | date=March 2022 }}
  • April 9 - The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego opens to the public after a five-year, $105 million overhaul.{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-04-07/museum-contemoporary-art-san-diego-niki-de-saint-phalle | title=Review: Women take center stage as the curtain rises on a San Diego art museum | website=Los Angeles Times | date=7 April 2022 }}
  • May - French authorities charge former President of the Louvre, Jean-Luc Martinez with money laundering in conjunction with an art trafficking case.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/27/louvre-president-jean-luc-martinez-charged-art-trafficking-abu-dhabi/ |title=Former Louvre president Jean-Luc Martinez charged in Abu Dhabi art trafficking case |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=2022-05-27 |access-date=2022-06-08}}
  • May 8 - The Andy Warhol silk-screen painting Sage Blue Shot Marilyn (1964) sells at Christie's in New York City for $195.04 million (with fees) shattering the record for a price paid at auction for a work by an American artist, besting the previous mark set by Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1982 painting Untitled which sold for $110,500,000 in 2017.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/09/arts/design/warhol-auction-marilyn-monroe.amp.html | title=Warhol's 'Marilyn,' at $195 Million, Shatters Auction Record for an American Artist | newspaper=The New York Times | date=10 May 2022 | last1=Pogrebin | first1=Robin }}{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/may/09/andy-warhol-marilyn-monroe-portrait-auction | title=Andy Warhol's iconic Marilyn Monroe portrait sells for record $195m | website=TheGuardian.com | date=10 May 2022 }} It also became the most expensive 20th century artwork sold in a public sale.{{cite web | url=https://www.laprensalatina.com/at-195mn-warhols-marilyn-becomes-most-expensive-20th-century-painting/amp/ | title=At $195mn, Warhol's Marilyn becomes most expensive 20th-century painting - la Prensa Latina Media | date=10 May 2022 }} The buyer was the American art dealer Larry Gagosian.{{cite news | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-10/gagosian-the-winning-bidder-for-warhol-s-195-million-marilyn | title=Who's Gagosian, the Winning Bidder for Warhol's $195 Million 'Marilyn' | newspaper=Bloomberg.com | date=10 May 2022 }}
  • May 14 - An original print of Man Ray's Le Violon d'Ingres sells for $12.4 million US (with fees) at Christie's in New York City making it the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction.{{cite news | url=https://www.cnn.com/style/article/man-ray-most-expensive-photograph-auction-record/index.html | title=Man Ray's 'Le Violon d'Ingres' photograph sells for record $12.4 million | website=CNN }}{{cite web | url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/man-rays-famed-photograph-of-kiki-de-montparnasse-sells-for-record-12-4-m-1234628663/ | title=Man Ray's Famed Photograph of Kiki de Montparnasse Sells for Record $12.4 M | date=14 May 2022 }}
  • May 31 - At the Louvre in Paris a male provocateur initially disguised as an elderly female art-goer in a wheelchair smears the bulletproof glass on top of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci with cake. He later reveals that he believes that he was engaged in some sort of makeshift climate protest. The still unidentified 36-year-old man was subsequently placed in psychiatric care.{{cite web | url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mona-lisa-cake-climate-change-protest-louvre/ | title=Mona Lisa smeared with cake in apparent climate protest | website=CBS News | date=31 May 2022 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/30/mona-lisa-smeared-cake-suspected-climate-protester | title=Man arrested after Mona Lisa smeared with cake | website=TheGuardian.com | date=30 May 2022 }}
  • June 23 - The Orlando Museum of Art in Orlando, Florida is raided by the FBI who seize 25 suspect paintings potentially fraudulently attributed to Jean-Michel Basquiat. The museum's director, Aaron De Groft who staged the exhibition of the works at the art institution is fired five days later.{{cite web | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/06/30/orlando-museum-director-fired-fbi-raid-basquiat/7780681001/ | title=Orlando Museum of Art director fired after FBI seizes 'purported' Basquiat paintings | website=USA Today }}
  • July 4 - The Hay Wain (completed 1821) by the English landscape painter John Constable (1776-1837), and regarded as his most famous image, is subjected to two Just Stop Oil protestors attaching their own modified "apocalyptic vision of the future" version of the painting to the original and gluing themselves to the frame.{{cite news|last=Williams|first=Helen|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/constable-protesters-national-gallery-suffolk-scottish-b2115445.html|title=Anti-oil protesters attach 'apocalyptic vision' to Constable's Hay Wain|newspaper=The Independent|date=4 July 2022|access-date=4 July 2022}} The National Gallery later reports that the surface varnish of the painting and its frame suffered minor damage.{{cite news|last=Holland|first=Oscar|url=https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/just-stop-oil-hay-wain-london-climate/index.html|title=Climate protesters glue themselves to 200-year-old masterpiece|website=CNN|date=5 July 2022|access-date=5 July 2022}}
  • October 9 - Two Extinction Rebellion activists glue themselves to Pablo Picasso's Massacre in Korea painting at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/09/prized-picasso-unharmed-after-extinction-rebellion-activists-glue-hands-to-painting-in-melbourne | title=Prized Picasso 'unharmed' after Extinction Rebellion activists glue hands to painting in Melbourne | website=TheGuardian.com | date=9 October 2022 }}
  • October
  • On October 14 activists from Just Stop Oil throw tomato soup onto Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London then glue themselves to the wall beneath the painting.{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/14/just-stop-oil-activists-throw-soup-at-van-goghs-sunflowers | title=Just Stop Oil activists throw soup at van Gogh's Sunflowers | website=TheGuardian.com | date=14 October 2022 }} Subsequently, on October 23 in a second incident, German climate action activists at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam throw mashed potatoes onto the Claude Monet painting Grainstacks (1890) and then make similar statements and demands.{{cite web | url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/arcna53623 | title=Protesters throw mashed potatoes at Monet worth $110 million | website=NBC News | date=24 October 2022 }}
  • It is noted that Piet Mondrian's New York City I (1941) has been hung upside down since first being put on public display in 1945.{{cite news|first=Philip|last=Ottermann|title=Obvious if you look? Mondrian has been upside down for 75 years|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=2022-10-29|page=6|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/oct/28/mondrian-painting-has-been-hanging-upside-down-for-75-years|access-date=2022-10-29}}
  • November 9
  • The Paul Allen collection is sold off at Christie's in New York City and shatters all previous records for proceeds from an auction of a singular art collection at more than $1.5 billion US. All funds are to be donated to Allen's philanthropic endeavors. Among the records set for prices for a work by an individual artist were $149.2 million US for Les Poseuses, Ensemble (Petite version) (1888) by the French Pointillist Georges Seurat, $138 million US for the painting La Montagne Sainte-Victoire by the French Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne setting a new mark for a price paid for his work at auction,{{cite web | url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/paul-cezanne-paul-allen-microsoft-christies-sale-1234646123/ | title=A Cezanne Landscape Owned by Microsoft Billionaire Co-Founder Sells for $138 M | date=10 November 2022 }} $104.6 million US for Birch Forest (1903) by the Austrian Symbolist Gustav Klimt setting an auction record for his work, and $11.5 million US for a 1905 print of a photograph by Edward Steichen, The Flatiron, a record for the photographer.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/arts/design/paul-allen-auction-christies.html |title=Paul G. Allen's Art at Christie's Tops $1.5 Billion, Cracking Records |work=The New York Times |date=10 November 2022 |access-date=2022-11-10 |archive-date=2022-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221110133220/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/arts/design/paul-allen-auction-christies.html |url-status=live |last1=Pogrebin |first1=Robin }}{{Cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-10/paul-allen-auction-results-klimt-painting-sets-105-million-record |title=A Klimt Sells for $105 Million, Setting a New Auction Record |website=Bloomberg News |date=10 November 2022 |access-date=2022-11-10|archive-date=2022-11-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221119000533/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-10/paul-allen-auction-results-klimt-painting-sets-105-million-record |url-status=live }}
  • A seven foot high statue of Queen Elizabeth II carved from eight tons of limestone is unveiled at York Minster cathedral by King Charles III and Queen Camilla during an official visit to Yorkshire in York, England.{{cite web | url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/king-charles-unveils-statue-queen-2208268 | title=King Charles Has Unveiled a Larger-Than-Life Statue of Queen Elizabeth II, Carved from Three Tons of Limestone | date=10 November 2022 }}
  • December 3 - Sydney Modern Project a A$344 extension to the Art Gallery of NSW opens to the public.{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/03/the-sydney-modern-project-is-finally-open-has-the-art-gallery-of-nsws-344m-expansion-paid-off | title=The Sydney Modern project is finally open. Has the Art Gallery of NSW's $344m expansion paid off? | website=TheGuardian.com | date=2 December 2022 }}

Exhibitions

  • January 31 until June 5 - Charles Ray: Figure Ground at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.{{Cite web|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/charles-ray|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220226190620/https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2021/charles-ray|title=The Metropolitan Museum of Art|archive-date=26 February 2022|website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art|access-date=26 March 2023}}
  • January 13 until February 20 - 1970S/Graffiti/Today at Phillips in New York City,{{cite web | url=https://www.phillips.com/graffiti | title=1970S / Graffiti / Today }}
  • February 3 until April 16 - Ed Kerns: Interconnected at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.{{cite web | url=https://lafayettestudentnews.com/129074/arts/interconnected-cross-campus-exhibit-celebrates-four-decades-of-ed-kerns-expression-through-art/ | title='Interconnected' cross-campus exhibit celebrates four decades of ed Kerns' expression through art }}
  • February 11 until April 17 - Tomás Saraceno: Particular Matter(s) at The Shed at Hudson Yards in New York City.{{cite web | url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/tomas-saraceno-at-the-shed-2073340 | title=In Pictures: See Crowds Lose Themselves in Artist Tomás Saraceno's Immersive Spiderweb Environment at the Shed | date=7 March 2022 }}
  • February 11 until May 15 - Holbein: Capturing Character at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City.{{cite web | url=https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/holbein | title=Holbein: Capturing Character | date=24 August 2021 }}
  • February 17 until May 15 - Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.{{cite web | url=https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2022/jacques-louis-david-radical-draftsman | title=Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman }}
  • March 3 until April 14 - Dorothea Tanning: Doesn't the Paint Say it All at the Kasmin Gallery in New York City.{{cite web | url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/dorothea-tanning-kasmin-survey-1234620618/ | title=Dorothea Tanning's Enigmatic Art Journeys Beyond Surrealism in a New Show at Kasmin | date=9 March 2022 }}
  • March 3 until July 24 - Bridget Riley: Perceptual Abstraction at the Yale Center for British Art at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.{{cite web | url=https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-programs/bridget-riley-perceptual-abstraction | title=Bridget Riley: Perceptual Abstraction | Yale Center for British Art }}
  • April 11 until July 31 - Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (originated at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Fort Worth, Texas).{{cite web | url=https://press.philamuseum.org/museum-to-present-major-exhibition-of-work-by-abstract-painter-sean-scully/ | title=Major Exhibition of Work by Abstract Painter Sean Scully }}
  • May 4 until September 4 - Archipenko and the Italian Avant-Garde at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art in London, England.{{cite web | url=https://www.estorickcollection.com/exhibitions/archipenko-and-the-italian-avant-garde | title=Archipenko and the Italian Avant Garde - Estorick Collection }}
  • May 5 until July 22 - Nicole Eisenman: Untitled (Show) at Hauser & Wirth in New York City.{{cite news | url=https://ocula.com/art-galleries/hauser-wirth/exhibitions/nicole-eisenman/#:~:text=Nicole%20Eisenman%2C%20%27Untitled%20(Show,May%E2%80%9322%20Jul%202022%20%7C%20Ocula&text=Nicole%20Eisenman%27s%20first%20major,West%2022nd%20Street%20in%20Chelsea | title=Exhibition | Nicole Eisenman, 'Untitled (Show)' at Hauser & Wirth, 22nd Street, New York, USA | date=29 July 2022 }}
  • May 5 into February 27, 2023 - Monet - Mitchell at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, France.{{cite web | url=https://hypebeast.com/2022/7/fondation-louis-vuitton-monet-mitchell-exhibition-preview | title=Fondation Louis Vuitton to Showcase Monumental Exhibition on Claude Monet and Joan Mitchell | date=19 July 2022 }}
  • May 14 until October 2 - Nick Cave: Forothemore at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.{{cite web | url=https://mcachicago.org/exhibitions/2022/nick-cave-forothermore | title=MCA - Nick Cave: Forothermore }}
  • May 20 until October 16 - Marc Quinn: History Paintings + at the Yale Center for British Art at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.{{cite web | url=https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-programs/marc-quinn-history-painting | title=Marc Quinn: History Painting + | Yale Center for British Art }}
  • May 22 until October 23 - Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love at the Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.{{cite web | url=https://artbma.org/exhibition/salman-toor-no-ordinary-love | title=Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love | Baltimore Museum of Art }}
  • May 25 until September 11 - Sam Gilliam: Full Circle at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC.{{cite web | url=https://hirshhorn.si.edu/exhibitions/sam-gilliam-full-circle/ | title=Sam Gilliam: Full Circle }}
  • July 22 until January 8, 2023 - New York: 1962-1964 at The Jewish Museum in New York City.{{cite web | url=https://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/new-york-1962-1964 | title=The Jewish Museum }}
  • September 9 until March 12, 2023 - Łempicka at the National Museum in Kraków.{{Cite web|url=https://mnk.pl/wystawy/lempicka|title=Łempicka - Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie|website=mnk.pl}}
  • September 23 until January 8, 2023 - Bernardo Bellotto. On the 300th Anniversary of the Painter's Birthday at the Royal Castle in Warsaw.[https://zamek-krolewski.pl/en/aktualnosc/wystawy-czasowe/1396-bernardo-bellotto-300th-anniversary-painters-birthday/printable/print 1396 Bernardo Bellotto 300th anniversary painters birthday] zamek-krolewski.pl
  • October 18 until February 20, 2023 - Alex Katz: Gathering at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.{{cite web | url=https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/alex-katz-gathering | title=Alex Katz: Gathering }}
  • October 18 until January 8, 2023 - Ugo Rondinone: The water is a poem, unwritten by the air, no. the earth is a poem, unwritten by the fire at the Petit Palais in Paris.{{cite web |url=https://www.mutualart.com/EventsResults/Ugo/?q=Ugo|title=Exhibitions. Ugo La Pietra: L'artista E La Città|website=mutualart.com|access-date=26 March 2023}}
  • October 20 until January 22, 2023 - Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil Tradition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.{{Cite web |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2022/cubism-trompe-loeil |title=Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil Tradition - the Metropolitan Museum of Art |access-date=2022-11-15 |archive-date=2022-11-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221113003816/https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2022/cubism-trompe-loeil |url-status=live }}
  • October 22 until April 9, 2023 - Frank Bowling's Americas at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.{{cite web | url=https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/frank-bowlings-americas | title=Frank Bowling's Americas }}
  • October 27 until December 17 - Pawel Althamer: Polish Sculpture at Anton Kern Gallery in New York City.{{cite web | url=https://www.antonkerngallery.com/exhibitions/401/ | title=Paweł Althamer: Polish Sculpture | October 27 - December 17, 2022 }}
  • November 3 until December 23, 2022 - David Hockney:20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures at Annely Juda Fine Art in London,{{cite web | url=https://www.annelyjudafineart.co.uk/exhibitions/352-david-hockney-20-flowers-and-some-bigger-pictures/overview/| title=David Hockney - 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures}}
  • November 6 until April 30, 2023 - Henry Taylor: B Side at MOCA, Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California,{{cite web | url=https://www.moca.org/exhibition/henry-taylor | title=Henry Taylor: B Side }} then traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City from October 4, 2023 until January 26, 2024.{{cite web | url=https://whitney.org/press/henry-taylor | title=Henry Taylor: B Side Oct 4, 2023–Jan 28, 2024 }}
  • Ongoing - Ricky Brown: Really Bad Portraits in Washington Square Park in New York City.{{cite web | url=https://mymodernmet.com/really-bad-portraits-ricky-brown/ | title=Funny Artist Draws "Really Bad Portraits" of Strangers on the Street of NYC for $3 | date=19 April 2022 }}

Works

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  • Branly Cadet - Statue of Sandy Koufax (permanently installed at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California){{cite news |last1=Ardaya |first1=Fabian |title=Dodgers unveil statue honoring Sandy Koufax |url=https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/3489893/2022/06/18/dodgers-unveil-statue-honoring-sandy-koufax/ |work=The Athletic |date=June 19, 2022}}
  • Alex Da Corte - ROY G BIV (commissioned for and exhibited at the 2022 Whitney Biennial){{cite web | url=https://whitney.org/events/alex-da-corte-roy-g-biv | title=Alex da Corte: ROY G BIV }}
  • Denise Dutton - Statue of Mary Anning
  • Michael Heizer - City in Garden Valley, Lincoln County, Nevada, USA (begun in 1972 and completed in 2022){{cite web |author=William Van Meter |title=I Ventured to Michael Heizer's Remote Land Art Masterwork—And Left Transformed |website=Artnet |date=6 November 2024 |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world-archives/michael-heizers-city-2564168?amp=1}}
  • David Hockney - Harry Styles, 31st May 2022{{cite web | url=https://www.apollo-magazine.com/harry-styles-portrait-david-hockney/ | title=When Harry Styles met David Hockney | date=4 August 2023 }}
  • Dmitry Iv - Shoot Yourself (sculpture) in Kyiv, Ukraine{{cite web | url=https://nypost.com/2022/05/10/statue-of-putin-with-a-gun-in-his-mouth-appears-in-kyiv/ | title='Shoot Yourself': Statue of Putin with gun in his mouth appears in Kyiv | date=10 May 2022 }}
  • Douglas Jennings - Statue of Margaret Thatcher (Grantham)
  • Samson Kambalu - Antelope (on the Fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square, London){{cite news|title=Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth: Winning design a 'litmus test' for society|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-57699300|work=BBC News|date=2021-07-05|access-date=2022-10-01}}.
  • Matthew Mazzotta - Phoebe the Flamingo installed at the main terminal at Tampa International Airport
  • Robin Kid - God Bless our Broken Home{{cite web | url=https://www.artbasel.com/catalog/artwork/176144/Robin-Kid-God-Bless-Our-Broken-Home | title=Robin Kid | God Bless Our Broken Home, 2022 }}
  • Eduardo Kobra - For the planet (mural on the side of the United Nations Headquarters in New York City){{Cite web |url=https://www.un.org/en/delegate/brazilian-artist%E2%80%99s-mural-%E2%80%98-planet%E2%80%99-proves-big-draw-ga |title=Brazilian artist's mural 'for the planet' proves big draw for GA | United Nations |access-date=2022-09-30 |archive-date=2022-11-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118234921/https://www.un.org/en/delegate/brazilian-artist%E2%80%99s-mural-%E2%80%98-planet%E2%80%99-proves-big-draw-ga |url-status=live }}
  • Hew Locke - Procession (sculptural mixed-media assemblage instillation) in the Duveen Galleries of the Tate Britain in London{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/01/arts/design/hew-locke-the-procession-tate-britain.amp.html | title=Bright Colors, Dark Subjects: Hew Locke's Unsettling Pageant | newspaper=The New York Times | date=April 2022 | last1=Fullerton | first1=Elizabeth }}
  • Jesse Pallotta - A Love Letter to Marsha
  • Donato Piccolo - Quando il fiore muore, il pensiero percuote{{cite web | url=https://galerieitalienne.com/fr/expositions/les-hommes-shabillent-comme-des-robots | title=Les hommes s'habillent comme des robots }}
  • Allison Saar - Statue of Lorraine Hansberry{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/arts/design/lorraine-hansberry-statue-times-square.html | title=Lorraine Hansberry Statue to be Unveiled in Times Square | newspaper=The New York Times | date=19 May 2022 | last1=Bahr | first1=Sarah }}
  • Basil Watson - National Windrush Monument

Awards

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  • HOME (Phoebe the Flamingo) - CODA award in the Transportation category{{Cite web |date=2023-09-08 |title=Phoebe the Flamingo earns top bill from critics and audiences alike at international art contest |url=https://www.wusf.org/arts-culture/2023-09-08/phoebe-flamingo-earns-top-bill-critics-audiences-alike-international-art-contest |access-date=2024-11-14 |website=WUSF |language=en}}
  • Bucksbaum Prize (WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2022) - Ralph Lemon{{Cite web |date=2022-09-22 |title=RALPH LEMON AWARDED WHITNEY BIENNIAL’S $100,000 BUCKSBAUM AWARD |url=https://www.artforum.com/news/ralph-lemon-awarded-whitney-biennials-100000-bucksbaum-award-252133/#:~:text=A%20work%20by%20Ralph%20Lemon%20included%20in%20the%202022%20Whitney%20Biennial.&text=%E2%80%9CWith%20the%20Bucksbaum%20Prize,%20the,case%20that%20has%20already%20happened. |access-date=2025-01-09 |website=Artforum |language=en-US}}
  • Golden Lion for Best National Participation (59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia) - Great Britain, Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way{{Cite web |date=2022-04-23 |title=Biennale Arte 2022 {{!}} Biennale Arte 2022: Official Awards |url=https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/biennale-arte-2022-official-awards |access-date=2025-03-13 |website=La Biennale di Venezia |language=en}}
  • Golden Lion for best film (79th Venice International Film Festival) - Laura Poitras's documentary "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed"{{Cite news |last=Rapold |first=Nicolas |date=2022-09-10 |title=‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ Wins Best Film at Venice Film Festival |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/10/movies/all-the-beauty-and-the-bloodshed-venice.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CAll%20the%20Beauty%20and%20the,jury%20led%20by%20Julianne%20Moore. |access-date=2025-01-09 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
  • Palme d'Or for best film (Cannes Film Festival) - Ruben Östlund's "Triangle of Sadness"{{Cite web |title=Rétrospective |url=https://www.festival-cannes.com/retrospective/2022/ |access-date=2025-03-13 |website=Festival de Cannes |language=fr-FR}}
  • Oscar for best picture - Sian Heder's CODA{{Cite news |date=2022-02-08 |title=Oscars 2022: All the winners and nominees |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60290065#:~:text=Best%20director&text=Oscar%20winner%20Will%20Smith%20hits,drama%20Coda%20wins%20best%20film |access-date=2025-03-13 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}

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