2005 in art

Events

*30 September - Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

Awards

*Archibald Prize - John Olsen, "Self portrait Janus Faced"
*Beck's Futures - Christina Mackie
*Caldecott Medal for children's book illustration - Kevin Henkes, "Kitten's First Full Moon"
*Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts - Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa
*Turner Prize - Simon Starling, "Shedboatshed"
*Wynne prize - Jenny Sages, "The Road to Utopia"

Works

* "The Gates", an installation by Christo and Jeanne-Claude that was up from February 12 through February 27 in Central Park in New York City.
* June - A museum dedicated to Paul Klee opens in Bern, Switzerland. It was designed by Renzo Piano.

Exhibitions

*Aleksander Balos - "Travaux récents" (organised by Arts nord sud, at Espace Griffon, Crédit Municipal, Paris, France)

Deaths

January to March

*1 January - Eugene J. Martin, American visual artist (b.1938).
*4 January - Guy Davenport, American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher (b.1927).
*4 January - Alton Tobey, American painter, historical artist, muralist, portraitist, illustrator, and teacher (b.1914).
*14 January - Conroy Maddox, English surrealist painter, collagist, writer and lecturer (b.1912).
*14 January - Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer (b.1940).
*January 25 - Philip Johnson, major art collector, former MoMA curator, influential architect (b. 1906)
*25 January - Max Velthuijs, Dutch painter, illustrator and author (b.1923).
*27 January - Gordon Lambert, Irish art collector (b.1919).
*27 January - Aurélie Nemours, French painter (b.1910).
*7 February - Paul Rebeyrolle, French painter (b.1926).
*18 February - Harald Szeemann, Swiss curator and art historian (b.1933).
*21 February - Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish painter, photographer, and fantasy artist (b.1929).
*20 March - Walter Hopps, American museum director and curator (b.1932).

April to June

*5 April - Dale Messick, first woman syndicated comic strip artist in the United States (b.1906).
*10 April - Carl Abrahams, Jamaican painter (b.1911).
*11 April - André François, French cartoonist (b.1915).
*13 April - Philip Pavia, sculptor.
*13 April - Juan Zanotto, Italian-born Argentine comic book artist (b.1935).
*22 April - Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish sculptor and artist (b.1924).
*9 June - Gloria Ida Logan, Australian artist and lecturer in arts and crafts (b.1927).
*12 June - David Whitney, independent curator and art dealer, (b.1939).

July to December

*27 July - Al Held, American Abstract expressionist painter (b.1928).
*1 August - Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter, one of the innovators of Unitary Urbanism (b.1920).
*16 August - Joe Ranft, magician, animation storyboard artist, and voice actor (b.1960).
*26 August - Robert Denning, American interior designer (b.1927).
*22 October - Arman, French-born American artist (b.1928).
*28 October - Raymond Hains, French artist and photographer (b.1926).
*11 November - Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, English photographer (b.1939).

Full date unknown

*Robert C. Turner, American potter (b.1913).

ee also

* List of years in art