After living at Ekely for twenty years, the family moves to central Oslo. Widerberg continues to maintain his studio at Ekely. 

Publication of a limited-edition portfolio of 15 colour lithographs and 15 vignettes in a new hand-set edition of Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, published by Peter Bramsen, Paris. Following a lengthy court case, Bramsen is found to be in breach of both the publication and distribution rights of their contract. 

Works with Dag Rebeyrol on intaglio printing techniques. 

Publication of Harald Sverdrup/Frans Widerberg Øyeblikk (Moments). A suite of 12 colour etchings plus title page and 12 poems.

Has a joint exhibition with his sons Nicolaus Widerberg: Sculpture, Frans Widerberg: Paintings, Thomas Widerberg: Music, at the Artists’ Association, from 8 March – 1 April. 

In Edinburgh for the opening of his exhibition Frans Widerberg: A Retrospective at the Gallery of Modern Art, from 6 December to 11 January, during the Edinburgh Festival. The accompanying catalogue has a foreword by Knut Berg and an essay Dreamer in a Landscape by Michael Tucker. The touring exhibition is organised by Mara-Helen Wood.

The exhibition Frans Widerberg: A Retrospective opens in Newcastle upon Tyne at Newcastle University’s Hatton Gallery from 25 March to 16 April and subsequently tours to Brighton Polytechnic Gallery, from 1 – 27 May; the Morley Gallery, Morley College, London, from 4 – 19 June; the Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland, from 8 – 30 August; The Gallery Downstairs, Burnley, from 28 September – 24 October and the Arts Council Gallery, Belfast, N Ireland, from 4 – 28 November. 

An exhibition of watercolours opens at the MacRobert Art Centre, University of Stirling, from 2 – 28 March and tours to Saga Gallery, London. Catalogue introduction by Mara-Helen Wood, Director, University Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. 

A one-man exhibition of Paintings and Prints opens at Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, from 16 – 30 August, during the Norwegian Film Festival. 

Participates in the group exhibition Norwegian Paintings, Sculpture and Prints, at Kunstsalon Wolfsberg in Zürich, Switzerland, from 18 November – 30 December.

Produces 10 colour and 10 black & white lithographs to accompany Stein Mehren’s poems in the folio edition Jord, Liv, Himmel (Earth, Life, Sky), published by Labyrinth Press, Oslo.

The artist Per Dahl introduces Widerberg to Per Steen Hebsgaard, owner of the internationally acclaimed glass studio in Vanløse, near Copenhagen. This marks the beginning of a highly productive and creative collaboration which results in a series of major public commissions including the stained-glass window commission for Volsdalen Church, near Ålesund on the West coast of Norway. Widerberg’s 15-metre, vertical stained-glass window, made up of several thousand pieces of cut glass is sponsored by Kjell Holm. The commission was completed in stages in 1991, 93, 95. 

One-man exhibition Paintings at Saga Scandinavian Art in London, from 12 October to 4 November, with a catalogue text by the British art critic and lecturer, William Varley.

Participates in the exhibition Polaris: a Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish group show.