2000 in art

The year 2000 in art involved various significant events.

Events

February – Opening of the New Art Gallery Walsall in the West Midlands of England.
13 February – The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles Schulz.
9 March – The FBI arrests art forgery suspect Ely Sakhai in New York City.
May – Christie's withdraws a forgery of Paul Gauguin's Vase de Fleurs (Lilas) from auction.
11 May – Official opening of the Tate Modern in London.
7 August – DeviantART is launched in the United States.
12 October – Official opening of The Lowry theatre and gallery centre in Salford, England (designed by Michael Wilford and Buro Happold).
22 December – Nationalmuseum robbery: a self-portrait by Rembrandt and two Renoir paintings are stolen from the museum in Stockholm in Sweden.
Full date unknown
- First publication of the Hockney–Falco thesis in art history.
- Constantine Andreou receives the Légion d'honneur.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres retrospective at the Serpentine Gallery, London
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Excessivism exhibition at the LA Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Lee Bae - issu du Feu (part of an ongoing series)
Jake and Dinos Chapman – Hell
Eduardo Chillida – Berlin (sculpture)
Martin Creed – Work No. 227: The lights going on and off (installation)
Lucian Freud - After Cézanne
Diana Lee Jackson – Statue of Bill Bowerman (sculpture, Eugene, Oregon)
Leo Lankinen (died 1996) – Cross of Sorrow (memorial in Russian Karelia)
Lorenzo Pace – Triumph of the Human Spirit (public monument, Foley Square, New York City)
Tad Savinar – Constellation (sculpture series, Portland, Oregon)
Ian Sinclair, Jackie Staude, David Davies and Alistair Knox – Fairfield Industrial Dog Object
Betty Spindler – Hot Dog (ceramic sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum)
Paul Tzanetopoulos with Ted Tonio Tanaka architects – "Untitled" (kinetic light instillation, LAX, Los Angeles)
Rachel Whiteread – Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial, Vienna
Bill Woodrow – Regardless of History, for the Fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square, London
Makoto Yukimura – Planetes

17 January – Norman Blamey, British painter (b. 1914)
19 February – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor (b. 1928)
26 February – Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Icelandic-American painter (b. 1917)
31 March – Gisèle Freund, German-born French photographer (b. 1908)
15 April
- Edward Gorey, American illustrator (b. 1925)
- Todd Webb, American photographer (b. 1905)
16 April – Henry Bird, British muralist (b. 1909)
26 April – Gregory Gillespie, American magic realist painter (b. 1936)
8 May – Stanley Boxer, American painter (b. 1926)
3 June – Leonard Baskin, American sculptor, book-illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker and graphic artist (b. 1922)
9 June – Jacob Lawrence, African American painter (b. 1917)
2 July - Constance Howard, English textile artist (b. 1910)
10 July – Gertrud Arndt, German photographer (b. 1903)
17 July – Aligi Sassu, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1912)
5 August – Tullio Crali, Italian Futurist painter (b. 1910)
25 August – Carl Barks, American illustrator and comic book creator (b. 1901)
19 September – Anthony Robert Klitz, English artist (b. 1917)
19 October – Hans Moller, German born American painter
3 December – Frank Roper, English metal sculptor and stained glass artist (b. 1914)
4 December – Ansgar Elde, Swedish ceramic artist (b. 1933)