1995 in art

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Events from the year 1995 in art.

## Events

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* 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

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* 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

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See also: Category:1995 sculptures

* 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 de Fouw – Perpetual Motion (sculpture, Naas by-pass, Ireland)
* Nabil Kanso – series
* 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]

## Awards

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* Archibald Prize – William Robinson, Self-portrait with stunned mullet
* John Moores Painting Prize \- David Leapman for "Double-Tongued Knowability[7]
* 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

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## Deaths

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### January to June

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* 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

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* 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).
* date unknown
* Jean-Yves Couliou, French painter (b.1916)
* Stevan Knežević, Serbian painter, sculptor and professor of art (b.1940)

### References

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

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