1995 in art

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 (Mona Hatoum, Callum Innes, and Mark Wallinger were shortlisted).

• 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 (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

• 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)
• 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