2025 in art

The year 2025 in art involves various significant events.

Art fairs

Listed are art fairs with an article on the English Wikipedia.

April

18 – 20: Art Dubai
24 – 27: Expo Chicago

May

1 – 4, 8 – 11: Clio, New York
8 – 11: 1-54, New York
8 – 11: Independent, New York
17 – 18: Springfield Old Capitol, Illinois

June

7 – 8: 57th Street, Chicago
19 – 22: Art Basel

July

11 – 13: Cairns Indigenous Art
17 – 19: Ann Arbor Street Art Fair

August

9 – 11: Darwin Festival
28 – 31: Enter Art, Copenhagen

September

5 – 7: The Armory Show, New York
25 – 28: British Art Fair, London

October

3 – 5: Art Jakarta
16 – 19: Highlights – Internationale Kunstmesse München, Munich
23 – 26: Art Toronto

December

5 - 7: Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach

Events

March - Rembrandt's only known seascape, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, stolen in 1990 in a famed art heist from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is seemingly recovered by FBI from an art gallery in Manhattan. After video of the event goes viral on social media it is revealed that it was staged for a film shoot.
April - A 12-foot tall bust of Elon Musk which was inspired by a Reddit meme is defaced in Texas.
April 3 - The Tate Modern in London announces that Jorge and Darlene Pérez the art collectors and Perez Art Museum namesakes donated the monumental Joan Mitchell triptych Iva to the institution.
May 27 - The organizers of the 2026 Venice Biennale announce that they will go forward with the late Cameroonian-Swiss artistic director of the event Koyo Kouoh's creative vision for the exhibition after she unexpectedly died more than a year before its opening.
September 25 - More than 600 artifacts related to the British Empire and Commonwealth are stolen from Bristol Museum.
October 19 - 2025 Louvre robbery: thieves disguised as workers steal eight pieces of the French Crown Jewels from the Galerie d'Apollon of the Louvre art museum in Paris in a daring daylight raid; the Crown of Empress Eugénie is abandoned nearby.
November 18 - Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, a life-size oil on canvas portrait by Gustav Klimt, sells for $238.4 million $US rendering it the most expensive work of Modern Art ever sold at auction and the second most expensive work of art ever sod at auction, after Leonardo da Vinci's Salvador Mundi which sold for $450.3 million $US in 2017.
November 20 - The Dream (The Bed) by Frida Kahlo sells for 54.7 million $US at Sotheby's in New York, setting both a new record for the highest price of an artwork by a female artist at auction and that of a Latin American artwork at auction.
December 3 - The Winter Egg, one of the few Fabergé eggs still in private hands, is sold at Christie's in London, England, UK, for £22.9 million, setting a new auction record for a work from the House of Fabergé.
December 7 - Eight engravings by Henri Matisse and five works of Candido Portinari are stolen from Mário de Andrade Library in Brazil.

Exhibitions

January 10 until March 16 - Nick Cave: Amalgams and Graphts at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City.
January 18 until June 1 - Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World is a Mystery at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
January 23 until March 11 - Christopher Hart Chambers: Passages at Crossing Art in New York City.
January 26 until November 15 - Pirouette: Turning Points in Design, Museum of Modern Art, New York
February 4 until March 22 - Ronnie Landfield Recent Works Findlay Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida,
February 8 until May 11 - Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
February 14 until June 15 - Anselm Kiefer: The Early Works at the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University in Oxford, England.
February 18 until March 8 - Sylvie Covey: Botanical Space at the NoHo M55 Gallery in New York City.
March 6 until April 19 - Walton Ford: Tutto at Gagosian in New York City.
March 6 until April 19 - Julio Galán at Luhring Augustine Gallery and Kurimanzutto in New York City.
March 23 until August 2 - Jack Whitten: The Messenger at MoMA in New York City.
March 31 until June 22 - Anselm Kiefer: Solaris at Nijo Castle in Kyoto, Japan.
April 9 until August 10 - Amy Sherald: American Sublime at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
April 9 until August 31 - David Hockney; 25 at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, France.
April 18 until July 3 - Picasso: Tête-à-tête at the Gagosian Gallery on Madison Avenue in New York City.
April 27 until August 3 - Sargent and Paris at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
April 18 until May 29 - Don Perlis' New York at Ilon Galery in New York City.
May 7 until June 28 - Will Cotton: Between Instinct and Reason at Templon in New York City.
May 30 until September 14 - In the Medium of Life: The Drawings of Beauford Delaney at The Drawing Center in New York City.
July 16 until August 30 - Summer Show at Shin Gallery in New York City.
July 17 until May 31, 2026 - The Magical City: George Morrison's New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
September 4 until February 1, 2026 - Man Ray: When Objects Dream at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
September 24 until January 18, 2026 - Sixties Surreal at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
October 11 until February 1, 2026 - Monet abd Venice at the Brooklyn Museum.
October 29 until November 21 - David Szauder: Glitches & Glory at the Elza kayal Gallery in New York City.
November 13 until February 28, 2026 - Jeff Koons: Porcelain Series at the Gagosian Gallery in New York City.

Awards

Bennett Prize - Amy Werntz

Works

Beeple - Regular Animals.
Jack Butcher - Self Checkout.
Adam Cvijanovic - What's So Funny About Peace, Love, and Understanding - at the narthex in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.Make America Wait Again
Victor "Marka27" Quiñonez - Brownsville King of Love in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York.
Lachlan Turczan and ivy Ross and the Google design team - Making the Invisible Visible for Milan Design Week in Milan, Italy.

Deaths

January

January 3 - La Chunga, 87, Spanish flamenco dancer, painter. and painter's muse
January 4
*Ed Askew, 84, American painter
*Peter Brandes, 80, Danish painter and sculptor
*Elisabeth Haarr, 78, Norwegian textile artist
January 4 - Jagdish Mittal, 99, Indian art collector
January 5 - Philippa Blair, 79, New Zealand artist.
January 7 - Leo Segedin, 97, American painter
January 8 - Alastair MacKinven, 53, British artist
January 13 - Oliviero Toscani, 82, Italian photographer
January 16
*David Lynch, 78, American film director and visual artist
*George A. Tice, 86, American photographer
January 17 - Jules Feiffer, 95, American cartoonist, author, and visual artist
January 21
*Jo Baer, 95, American painter
*Håkon Bleken, 96, Norwegian painter
*Renina Katz, 99, Brazilian engraver
January 22 - Aaron De Groft, 59, American art museum director .
January 24
*Rutherford Chang, 45, American conceptual artist
*Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, 85, American artist and curator
January 27 - Alonzo Davis, 82, American artist and academic
January 28 - Graham Nickson, 78, British painter, longtime dean of the New York Studio School;

February

February 1 - C. Richard Kramlich, 89, American venture capitalist and video art collector
February 2 - Helga de Alvear, 88, German-Spanish art collector and dealer
February 3
*David Edward Byrd, 83, American graphic artist
*Lim Tze Peng, 103, Singaporean painter
February 5
*Satoru Abe, 98, American sculptor and painter
*Waldo Díaz-Balart, 93, Cuban painter and sculptor
February 8 – Yrjö Kukkapuro, 91, Finnish interior architect and furniture designer
February 9 - Walter Robinson, 74, American painter and art writer.
February 10 - Mustafa Arruf, 66, Spanish sculptor
February 11 - Kay Smith, 101, American visual artist
February 12 - Mel Bochner, 84, American conceptual artist
February 20 - Frankétienne, 88, Haitian painter
February 23 - Ming Fay, 82, Chinese-born American sculptor

March

March 1 - Jack Vettriano, 73, Scottish painter
March 3 - Victor Cicansky, 90, Canadian sculptor
March 14 - Fred Eversley, 83, American sculptor
March 17 - Peter Sedgley, 95, English artist, co-founder of Space Studios
March 22
*Joe Goode, 87, American painter.
*Asaf Lifshitz, 82, Israeli sculptor
March 25 - Abdul Karim Al-Orrayed, 90–91, Bahraini artist
March 27 - Marcia Marcus, 97, American painter

April

April 6 - Max Kozloff, 91, American art historian and art critic
April 11 - Gretchen Dow Simpson, 85, American painter
April 14 - Elaine Wynn 82, American art collector and philanthropist
April 19 - Guy Ullens, 90, Belgian art collector
April 22 - Zurab Tsereteli, 91, Russian-Georgian sculptor, painter, and architect, president of the Russian Academy of Arts
April 23 -, 83, Puerto Rican-American painter
April 27 - Suki Seokyeong Kang, 48, South Korean visual artist

May

May 2 - Dara Birnbaum, 78, American video and installation artist
May 9 - André Rouillé, 76–77, French historian and theorist of photography
May 10 - Koyo Kouoh, 57, Cameroonian-born Swiss museum curator
May 12 - Yasunao Tone, 90, Japanese sound artist
May 21 - Eva, German performance artist
May 23 - Sebastião Salgado, 81, Brazilian photographer

June

June 4 - Daniel Lelong, 92, French gallerist and publisher
June 6 - Graham Gund, 84, American architect and art collector
June 10 - Günther Uecker, 95, German painter, sculptor, and installation artist
June 14
*Leonard Lauder, 92, American art collector and philanthropist
*Henk van Os, 87, Dutch art historian
*Joel Shapiro, 83, American sculptor
June 15 - Thornton Willis, 89, American painter,
June 18 - Marcia Resnick, 74, American photographer
June 22 - Arnaldo Pomodoro, 98, Italian sculptor
June 25 - Pat Williams, 87, American elected official and arts advocate

July

July 1 - Sir Brian Clarke, 71, British painter, architectural artist and printmaker
July 10 - Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan, 89, Serbian-Italian painter
July 19 - Raymond Saunders, 90, American artist
July 20 - Hamiduzzaman Khan, 79, Bangladeshi sculptor
July 29 - Lena Cronqvist, 86, Swedish painter and sculptor
July 31 - Robert Wilson, 83, American experimental theater stage director and playwright

August

August 9 - Amnon Barzel, 90, Israeli art critic
August 17
* Humberto Calzada, 81, Cuban-American artist
* Joe Caroff, 103, American graphic designer
August 18 - Eduard Carbonell i Esteller, 79, Spanish art historian, director of the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

September

September 3 - Rosalyn Drexler, 98, American artist and writer
September 3 - Robert Grosvenor, 88, American sculptor
September 15 - Norman Toynton, 86, British painter
September 18 - Agnes Gund, 87, American philanthropist and arts patron, president of the Museum of Modern Art
September 25 - Juraj Bartusz, 91, Slovak sculptor
September 30 - Takako Saito, 96, Japanese artist

October

October 3 - Milton Esterow, 97, American art journalist
October 5 - Ken Jacobs, 92, American experimental filmmaker
October 9 - Frank Wimberley, 99, American painter,
October 13 - Drew Struzan, 78, American artist, illustrator, and film poster designer
October 22 - Jackie Ferrara, 95, American sculptor and draughtswoman
October 29 - Alison Knowles, 92, American visual artist

November

November 4 - Giorgio Forattini, 94, Italian political cartoonist
November 10 - Dorothy Vogel, 90, American art collector
November 19 - Ronald Davis, 88, American painter
November 21 - Llyn Foulkes, 91, American visual artist
November 27 - Robert A.M. Stern, 86, American architect

December

December 5 -
*Frank Gehry, 96, Canadian-American architect
*Wolfgang Petrick, 86, German painter
December 9 - Arthur L. Carter, 93, visual artist and publisher
December 11 - Janet Fish, 87, American painter
December 11 - Ceal Floyer, 57, Pakistani-born British visual artist
December 18 - Ram V. Sutar, 100, Indian sculptor
December 19 - Robert Mnuchin, 92, American art dealer
December 21 - Sigmund Abeles, 91, American painter
December 22 - Gathie Falk, 97, Canadian painter and sculptor
December 30 - Margarete Palz, 88, German textile artist