1995 in art

Events from the year 1995 in art.

Events

• January – New San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, designed by Mario Botta, opens.
• June – Narendra Patel's sculpture Jantar-Mantar, on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM) on the east side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin., is dedicated.
• November 28 – Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, designed by Richard Meier, opens.

Exhibitions

• October 22 – Brilliant!, an exhibition by the Young British Artists group (who also feature heavily in this year’s British Art Show), opens at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA.

Works

• Larry D. Alexander – Clinton Family Portrait
• Ilan Averbuch – Little Prince (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
• Christo and Jeanne Claude - "Wrapped Reichstag" in Berlin, Germany
• Tracey Emin – Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 ("The Tent")
• Helen Frankenthaler - Cassis
• Lucian Freud – Benefits Supervisor Sleeping
• Antony Gormley – Havmannen (sculpture)
• Marcus Harvey – Myra
• Philip Jackson (sculptor)
  • Dolphin Group
  • Jersey Liberation Memorial
  • Maggie Reading
• Rachel Joynt and Remco de Fouw – Perpetual Motion (sculpture, Naas by-pass, Ireland)
• Nabil Kanso – series
  • The Raven
• Yue Minjun - Execution
• Sir Eduardo Paolozzi – Newton (sculpture)
• Cornelia Parker – Embryo Firearms (preempted objects)
• Cornelia Parker and Tilda Swinton – The Maybe (performance piece)
• Nari Ward - Peace Keeper

Awards

• Archibald Prize – William Robinson, Self-portrait with stunned mullet
• John Moores Painting Prize - David Leapman for "Double-Tongued Knowability
• Schock Prize in Visual Arts – Claes Oldenburg
• Turner Prize – Damien Hirst (Mona Hatoum, Callum Innes, and Mark Wallinger were shortlisted).

The Venice Biennial

• The Golden Lion for best Pavilion : Akram El-Magdoub, Hamdi Attia, Medhat Shafik, and Khaled Shokry representing Egypt

Deaths

January to June

• February – Robert Stewart, Scottish textile designer (b. 1924)
• March 18 – Robin Jacques, English illustrator (b. 1920)
• April 1 – Dame Lucie Rie, Austrian-born British studio potter (b. 1902)
• April 3 – Lang Jingshan, Chinese photographer (b. 1892)
• April 15 – Harry Shoulberg, American expressionist painter (b. 1903)
• April 24 – Lodewijk Bruckman, Dutch magic realist painter (b. 1903)
• May 26 – Friz Freleng, American animator, cartoonist, director and producer (b. 1906)
• May 30 – William McVey, American sculptor (b. 1905)
• June 22 - Al Hansen, American artist (b. 1927)

July to December

• July 4 – Bob Ross, American painter and television presenter (b.1942)
• July 24 – George Rodger, English photographer (b.1908)
• August 23 – Alfred Eisenstaedt, German American photographer (b.1898)
• August 28 – Carl Giles, English cartoonist (b.1916)
• September 3 – Mary Adshead, English painter (b.1904)
• October 21
  • Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author and artist (b.1919)
  • Nancy Graves, American sculptor, painter and printmaker (b.1939)
• October 26 – Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter and sculptor (b.1909).
• date unknown
  • Jean-Yves Couliou, French painter (b.1916)
  • Stevan Knežević, Serbian painter, sculptor and professor of art (b.1940)