1995 in art

The year 1995 in art involves various significant events.

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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
  • Dance of Salome
  • The Raven
• 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

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

1. Bendiner, Kenneth. "From the Chair" (PDF). Oeuvre Newsletter. UWM Art History Department. Retrieved 2012-11-05.
2. Lyall, Sarah (November 12, 1995). "Is it art or is it just dead meat?". The New York Times.
3. Smith, Roberta (November 23, 1995). "Some British moderns seeking to shock". New York Times.
4. "David Leapman - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums". Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
5. "OBITUARY: Mary Adshead". The Independent. 7 September 1995. Retrieved 21 February 2020.