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1995 in art

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Events

  • 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.

    • 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)
  • 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
  • Schock Prize in Visual Arts – Claes Oldenburg
  • Turner Prize – Damien Hirst (Mona Hatoum, Callum Innes, and Mark Wallinger were shortlisted).

    • The Venice Biennial

    Contents

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

    • January to June

  • 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 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).
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  • Jean-Yves Couliou, French painter (b.1916)
  • Alexander Džigurski, Serbian seascape artist (b. 1911)
  • Stevan Knežević, Serbian painter, sculptor and professor of art (b. 1940)

    • References

    References

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