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 Andrzej Kiciński and Jerzy Sikorski - 1st Armoured Division Memorial (sculpture, Warsaw, Poland) 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)
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