1995 in art

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Exhibitions

• 22 October – 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

• Lucian Freud – Benefits Supervisor Sleeping
• Eduardo Paolozzi – Newton

Awards

• Archibald Prize – William Robinson, Self-portrait with stunned mullet
• Schock Prize in Visual Arts – Claes Oldenburg
• Turner Prize – Damien Hirst. With Mona Hatoum, Callum Innes, and Mark Wallinger having been short listed.

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

• 18 March – Robin Jacques, English illustrator (b.1920).
• 15 April – Harry Shoulberg, American expressionist painter (b.1903).
• 26 May – Friz Freleng, American animator, cartoonist, director and producer (b.1906).

July to December

• 4 July – Bob Ross, American painter and television presenter (b.1942).
• 24 July – George Rodger, English photographer (b.1908).
• 28 August – Carl Giles, English cartoonist (b.1916).
• 3 September – Mary Adshead, English painter (b. 1904)
• 21 October – Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic books author and artist (b.1919).
• 21 October – Nancy Graves, American sculptor, painter and printmaker (b.1939).

Full date unknown

• William H. Burns, Northern Irish artist (b.1924).
• Jean-Yves Couliou, French painter (b.1916).