1995 in art

Overview of the events of 1995 in art

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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.,^[1] is dedicated.
November 28 – Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, designed by Richard Meier, opens.

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]

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^[4]^[5]
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
- Dance of Salome
- 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^[6]

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

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 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)^[8]
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).
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- Jean-Yves Couliou, French painter (b.1916)
- Stevan Knežević, Serbian painter, sculptor and professor of art (b.1940)

^ 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.
^ "Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works, 1990–2003". 2 June 2021.
^ "ColorFields – Judy Dworin Performance Project".
^ "Feathers on a Burnt-Out Hearse: Black Grief and Nari Ward's 'Peace Keeper'". 25 February 2021.
^ "David Leapman - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums". Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
^ "OBITUARY: Mary Adshead". The Independent. 7 September 1995. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 21 February 2020.