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
• Salvador Dalí - La Gare de Perpignan
• Mark di Suvero – Bunyon's Chess
• Lucian Freud – Reflection with Two Children
• Norman Lewis
• * Unknown Title
• * Untitled
• 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
• Carel Willink – To the Future
• David Wynne – Busts of Joan Baez and Oskar Kokoschka
• ''John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial''

Births

• January 21 – Robert Del Naja, English graffiti artist and trip hop musician
• February 20 – Miriam Mone, Northern Irish fashion designer
• March 9 – Brom, American illustrator
• April 20 – Mark Mallia, Maltese painter and sculptor
• July 9 – Jason Rhoades, American installation artist
• December 16 – Ellen Gallagher, American artistdate 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

Deaths

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