1995 in art
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The year 1995 in art involves various significant events.
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.,[1] 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.[2][3]
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")
- 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 deFouw – Perpetual Motion (sculpture, Naas by-pass, Ireland)
- Nabil Kanso – series
- Sir Eduardo Paolozzi – Newton (sculpture)
- Cornelia Parker and Tilda Swinton – The Maybe (performance piece)
- Cornelia Parker – Embryo Firearms (preempted objects)
Awards
- Archibald Prize – William Robinson, Self-portrait with stunned mullet
- John Moores Painting Prize - David Leapman for "Double-Tongued Knowability[4]
- 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
Births
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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)[5]
- 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)
References
- ^ Bendiner, Kenneth. "From the Chair" (PDF). Oeuvre Newsletter. UWM Art History Department. Retrieved 2012-11-05.
- ^ Lyall, Sarah (November 12, 1995). "Is it art or is it just dead meat?". The New York Times.
- ^ Smith, Roberta (November 23, 1995). "Some British moderns seeking to shock". New York Times.
- ^ "David Leapman - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums". Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
- ^ "OBITUARY: Mary Adshead". The Independent. 7 September 1995. Retrieved 21 February 2020.