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1995 in art
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Events from the year 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 (UWM) on the east side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.,[1] 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 (who also feature heavily in this year’s British Art Show), opens at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA.[2][3]
Works
- 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
- 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
- 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
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