1965 in art

Events from the year 1965 in art.

Events

 * March 19 – A record price of 760,000 guineas is paid at Christie's London auction house for Rembrandt's painting Titus.
 * May – Avant-garde artists Marta Minujín and Rubén Santantonín present La Menesunda in Buenos Aires, one of the first installations in art history.
 * September – Indica Gallery counterculture bookshop and art gallery opens in London.
 * October 7 – Release in the United States of the biographical film The Agony and the Ecstasy with Charlton Heston portraying Michelangelo.
 * December – Max's Kansas City nightclub opens in New York City; it quickly became a hangout of choice for artists and sculptors of the New York School and other members of the avant-garde.

Awards

 * Archibald Prize: Clifton Pugh – R A Henderson
 * John Moores Painting Prize – Michael Tyzack for " Alesso 'B' "
 * British sculptor Barbara Hepworth is created a Dame.

Works

 * Yaacov Agam – Double Metamorphosis II
 * Joseph Beuys – How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare (performance piece)
 * Salvador Dali - La Gare de Perpignan
 * Mark di Suvero – Bunyon's Chess (sculpture, Seattle)
 * Lucian Freud – Reflection with Two Children (self-portrait)
 * L. S. Lowry
 * Huddersfield
 * Industrial Scene
 * Miguel Miramontes – Equestrian statue of José María Morelos
 * Roman Opałka – 1965 /1 – ∞
 * John Petts – Birmingham, Alabama, 16th Street Baptist Church, West Window
 * Fairfield Porter – Elizabeth
 * James Rosenquist – F-111
 * Andy Warhol – Empire (film, released)
 * Carel Willink – To the Future
 * David Wynne – Busts of Joan Baez and Oskar Kokoschka
 * John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial (Portland, Oregon)

Births

 * January 21 – Robert Del Naja, English graffiti artist and trip hop musician
 * February 20 – Miriam Mone, Northern Irish fashion designer (died 2007)
 * March 9 – Brom, American illustrator
 * July 9 – Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (died 2006)
 * December 16 – Ellen Gallagher, American artist
 * date unknown
 * Hurvin Anderson, English painter
 * Tacita Dean, English-born visual artist
 * Andrea Fraser, American performance artist
 * Elizabeth Peyton, American portrait painter
 * Susan Philipsz, Scottish sound artist
 * Jessica Voorsanger, American-born visual artist
 * Alison Watt, Scottish painter
 * Andrea Zittel, American installation artist and sculptor

Deaths

 * January 3 – Milton Avery, American painter (born 1885)
 * January 7 – Anne Redpath, Scottish still life painter (born 1895)
 * January 27 – Abraham Walkowitz, American painter working in the Modernist style (born 1878)
 * January 30 – Bernard Fleetwood-Walker, English artist (born 1893)
 * February 18 – Yevgeny Charushin, Russian graphic artists (born 1901)
 * February 24 – Frank H. Mason, English marine and poster painter (born 1875)
 * May 7 – Charles Sheeler, American modernist painter and photographer (born 1883)
 * May 19 – Albin Polasek, Czech American sculptor (born 1879)
 * May 20 – Charles Camoin, French Fauvist painter (born 1879)
 * June 14 – Zoltán Kemény, Hungarian Swiss sculptor (born 1907)
 * June 21 – Piotr Buchkin, Russian painter and graphic artist (born 1886)
 * June 26 – G. David Thompson, American industrialist and collector of modern art (born 1899)
 * August 27 – Le Corbusier, Swiss-born French architect and painter (born 1887)
 * September 17 – Wilhelm Heise, German painter (born 1892)
 * October 19 – Edward Willis Redfield, American landscape painter (born 1869)
 * December 24 – Adolf Hyła, Polish painter and art teacher (born 1897)
 * December 27 – Edgar Ende, German painter (born 1901)
 * date unknown – George Barker, American painter (born 1882)