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 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, opens at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA.

Works

• Larry D. Alexander – Clinton Family Portrait
• Ilan Averbuch – Little Prince
• Christo and Jeanne Claude - "Wrapped Reichstag" in Berlin, Germany
• Tracey Emin – Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995
• Helen Frankenthaler - Cassis
• Lucian Freud – Benefits Supervisor Sleeping
• Antony Gormley – Havmannen
• Marcus Harvey – Myra
• Philip Jackson (sculptor)
• *Dolphin Group
• *Jersey Liberation Memorial
• *Maggie Reading
• Rachel Joynt and Remco de Fouw – Perpetual Motion
• Nabil Kanso – series
• *The Raven
• Yue Minjun - Execution
• Sir Eduardo Paolozzi – Newton
• Cornelia Parker – Embryo Firearms
• Cornelia Parker and Tilda Swinton – The Maybe
• 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.

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

Deaths

January to June

• February – Robert Stewart, Scottish textile designer
• March 18 – Robin Jacques, English illustrator
• April 1 – Dame Lucie Rie, Austrian-born British studio potter
• April 3 – Lang Jingshan, Chinese photographer
• April 15 – Harry Shoulberg, American expressionist painter
• April 24 – Lodewijk Bruckman, Dutch magic realist painter
• May 26 – Friz Freleng, American animator, cartoonist, director and producer
• May 30 – William McVey, American sculptor
• June 22 - Al Hansen, American artist

July to December

• July 4 – Bob Ross, American painter and television presenter
• July 24 – George Rodger, English photographer
• August 23 – Alfred Eisenstaedt, German American photographer
• August 28 – Carl Giles, English cartoonist
• September 3 – Mary Adshead, English painter
• October 21
• *Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author and artist
• *Nancy Graves, American sculptor, painter and printmaker
• October 26 – Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter and sculptor.
• date unknown
• *Jean-Yves Couliou, French painter
• *Stevan Knežević, Serbian painter, sculptor and professor of art