2005 in art

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Events

• June – Zentrum Paul Klee, a museum dedicated to Paul Klee, designed by Renzo Piano, opens at Bern in Switzerland.
• September 30 – 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

-The Venice Biennial-

• Lion d'Or Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Barbara Kruger (USA)
• Lion d'Or for Best Pavilion: Annette Messager (France)

• Wynne prize – Jenny Sages, The Road to Utopia

Works

• February 12–27 – The Gates, installation art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in Central Park, New York City.
• July 9 – Unveiling of Monument to the Women of World War II, sculpted by John W. Mills, in Whitehall, London.

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).
  • 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).
  • Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer (b.1940).
• 25 January
  • Philip Johnson, major art collector, former MoMA curator, influential architect (b. 1906)
  • Max Velthuijs, Dutch painter, illustrator and author (b.1923).
• 27 January
  • Gordon Lambert, Irish art collector (b.1919).
  • 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 – Neil Welliver, American painter (b.1929)
• 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.
  • Juan Zanotto, Italian-born Argentine comic book artist (b.1935).
• 19 April – Clement Meadmore Melbourne, Australia-born, American sculptor, (b.1929)
• 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

• 26 July – Robert C. Turner, American potter (b.1913).
• 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).

See also

• List of years in art