1995 in art

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
 * 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

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

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)