Overview of the events of 2025 in art
The year 2025 in art involves various significant events.
Art Fairs
Listed are art fairs with an article on the English Wikipedia.[ 1]
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Events
Exhibitions
January 10 until March 16 - Nick Cave : Amalgams and GraphtsJack Shainman Gallery in New York City .[ 6] January 18 until June 1 - Gertrude Abercrombie : The Whole World is a MysteryCarnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania .[ 7] January 23 until March 11 - Christopher Hart Chambers: Passages at Crossing Art in New York City.[ 8] [ 9] January 26 until November 15 - Pirouette: Turning Points in Design [ 10] February 4 until March 22 - Ronnie Landfield Recent Works[ 11] February 8 until May 11 - Caspar David Friedrich : The Soul of NatureMetropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[ 12] February 14 until June 15 - Anselm Kiefer : The Early WorksAshmolean Museum Oxford University in Oxford , England.[ 13] February 18 until March 8 - Sylvie Covey : Botanical Space[ 14] March 6 until April 19 - Walton Ford : TuttoGagosian in New York City .[ 15] March 6 until April 19 - Julio Galán Luhring Augustine Gallery and Kurimanzutto in New York City.[ 16]
March 23 until August 2 - Jack Whitten : The MessengerMoMA in New York City.[ 17] March 31 until June 22 - Anselm Kiefer : SolarisNijo Castle in Kyoto , Japan.[ 18] April 9 until August 10 - Amy Sherald : American SublimeWhitney Museum of American Art in New York City.[ 19] April 9 until August 31 - David Hockney ; 25Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris , France.[ 20] April 18 until July 3 - Picasso : Tête-à-tête (in collaboration with Paloma Picasso )Gagosian Gallery on Madison Avenue in New York City.[ 21] April 27 until August 3 - Sargent and Paris [ 22] April 18 until May 29 - Don Perlis ' New York[ 23] May 7 until June 28 - Will Cotton : Between Instinct and ReasonTemplon in New York City.[ 24] May 30 until September 14 - In the Medium of Life: The Drawings of Beauford Delaney at The Drawing Center in New York City.[ 25] July 16 until August 30 - Summer Show at Shin Gallery in New York City.[ 26] July 17 until May 31, 2026 - The Magical City: George Morrison 's New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[ 27]
Awards
Bennett Prize - Amy Werntz[ 28]
Works
Deaths
January
January 3 – La Chunga , 87, Spanish flamenco dancer, painter. and painter's muse (Salvador Dali ) (born 1938)[ 30] January 4
January 4 – Jagdish Mittal , 99, Indian art collector (born 1925)[ 34] January 5 – Philippa Blair , 79, New Zealand artist (born 1945).[ 35] January 7 – Leo Segedin , 97, American painter (born 1927)[ 36] January 8 – Alastair MacKinven , 53, British artist (born 1971)[ 37] January 13 – Oliviero Toscani , 82, Italian photographer (Benetton ) (born 1942)[ 38] January 16
January 17 – Jules Feiffer , 95, American cartoonist, author, and visual artist (born 1929)[ 41] January 21
January 22 – Aaron De Groft , 59, American art museum director (Orlando Museum of Art ) (born 1965).[ 45] January 24
January 27 – Alonzo Davis , 82, American artist and academic (born 1942)[ 48] January 28 – Graham Nickson , 78, British painter, longtime dean of the New York Studio School ; (born 1946)
February
February 1 – C. Richard Kramlich , 89, American venture capitalist and video art collector (born 1935)[ 49] February 2 – Helga de Alvear , 88, German-Spanish art collector and dealer (born 1936)[ 50] February 3
February 5
February 8 – Yrjö Kukkapuro , 91, Finnish interior architect and furniture designer (born 1933)[ 55] February 9 - Walter Robinson , 74, American painter and art writer (born 1950).[ 56] February 10 - Mustafa Arruf , 66, Spanish sculptor (born 1958)[ 57] February 11 - Kay Smith , 101, American visual artist (born 1923)[ 58] February 12 - Mel Bochner , 84, American conceptual artist (born 1940)[ 59] February 20 - Frankétienne , 88, Haitian painter (born 1936)[ 60] February 23 - Ming Fay , 82, Chinese-born American sculptor (born 1943)[ 61]
March
March 1 - Jack Vettriano , 73, Scottish painter (The Singing Butler [ 62] March 3 - Victor Cicansky , 90, Canadian sculptor (born 1935)[ 63] March 14 - Fred Eversley , 83, American sculptor (born 1941)[ 64] March 17 - Peter Sedgley , 95, English artist, co-founder of Space Studios (born 1930)[ 65] March 22
March 25 - Abdul Karim Al-Orrayed , 90-91, Bahraini artist (born 1934)[ 68] March 27 - Marcia Marcus , 97, American painter (born 1928)[ 69]
April
April 6 - Max Kozloff , 91, American art historian and art critic (born 1933)[ 70] April 11 - Gretchen Dow Simpson , 85, American painter (born 1939)[ 71] April 14 - Elaine Wynn 82, American art collector and philanthropist (born 1942)[ 72] April 19 - Guy Ullens , 90, Belgian art collector (born 1935)[ 73] April 22 - Zurab Tsereteli , 91, Russian-Georgian sculptor (Birth of the New World To the Struggle Against World Terrorism Russian Academy of Arts (born 1934)[ 74] April 23 - Tony Bechara [es ] , 83, Puerto Rican-American painter (born 1942)[ 75] April 27 - Suki Seokyeong Kang , 48, South Korean visual artist (born 1977)[ 76]
May
May 2 - Dara Birnbaum , 78, American video and installation artist (born 1946)[ 77] May 9 - André Rouillé , 76–77, French historian and theorist of photography (born 1948)[ 78] May 10 - Koyo Kouoh , 57, Cameroonian-born Swiss museum curator (Zeitz MOCAA ) (born 1967)[ 79] May 12 - Yasunao Tone , 90, Japanese sound artist (born 1935)[ 80] May 21 - Eva , German performance artist (Eva & Adele )[ 81] May 23 - Sebastião Salgado , 81, Brazilian photographer (born 1944)[ 82]
June
June 4 - Daniel Lelong , 92, French gallerist and publisher (born 1933!)[ 83] June 6 - Graham Gund , 84, American architect (Lowry Center ) and art collector (born 1940)[ 84] June 10 - Günther Uecker , 95, German painter, sculptor, and installation artist (born 1930)[ 85] June 14
June 15 - Thornton Willis , 89, American painter (born 1936),[ 89] June 18 - Marcia Resnick , 74, American photographer (born 1950)[ 90] June 22 - Arnaldo Pomodoro , 98, Italian sculptor (Sphere Within Sphere [ 91] June 25 - Pat Williams , 87, American elected official and arts advocate (NEA ) (born 1937)[ 92]
July
July 1 - Sir Brian Clarke , 71, British painter, architectural artist and printmaker (born 1953)[ 93] July 10 - Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan , 89, Serbian-Italian painter (born 1935)[ 94] July 19 - Raymond Saunders , 90, American artist (born 1934)[ 95] July 20 - Hamiduzzaman Khan , 79, Bangladeshi sculptor (born 1945)[ 96] July 29 - Lena Cronqvist , 86, Swedish painter and sculptor (born 1938)[ 97] July 31 - Robert Wilson , 83, American experimental theater stage director and playwright (born 1941)[ 98]
August
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