1996 in art

Events

Awards

*Archibald Prize - Wendy Sharpe, Self Portrait "as Diana of Erskineville"
*Wynne Prize - William Robinson, "Creation landscape – earth and sea"
*Turner Prize - Douglas Gordon
*Jan Amos Comenius Medal (UNESCO) - Yaacov Agam, for the "Agam Method" for visual education of young children

Exhibitions

*British Art Show 5 - various venues in Manchester
*"Sol LeWitt Prints: 1970-1995" - travelling exhibition by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
*Vermeer - nearly complete exhibition of 25 works, The Hague and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Deaths

January to June

*6 January - Duane Hanson, American sculptor (b.1925).
*11 February - Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, French photographer and ethnographer (b.1902).
*18 January - Leonor Fini, Argentine surrealist painter (b.1908).
*28 January - Jerry Siegel, American comic book artist (b.1914).
*20 February - Audrey Munson, American actress and artist's model (b.1891).
*5 March - Joshua Compston - British gallerist (b.1970).
*15 March - Helen Chadwick, British artist (b.1953).
*14 April - Mervyn Levy, Welsh artist and critic (b.1915).
*25 April - Saul Bass, American graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker (b.1920).
*10 June - Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (b.1906).

July to December

*28 July - Roger Tory Peterson, American naturalist, ornithologist, artist and educator (b.1908).
*24 October - Lin Onus, Scottish-Aboriginal Koori artist (b.1948).
*26 November - Paul Rand, American graphic designer (b.1914).
*29 November - Dan Flavin, American minimalist artist (b.1933).
*3 December - Jean Tabaud, French artist (b.1914).
*11 December - Willie Rushton, English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer (b.1937).
*16 December - Quentin Bell, English art historian and author (b.1910).
*25 December - Gabriel Loire, French stained glass artist (b.1904).

Full date unknown

*William Copley, American artist (b.1919).
*Félix González-Torres, Cuban artist (b.1957).