1996 in art
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The year 1996 in art involved some significant events.
[edit] 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
[edit] 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.
[edit] Deaths
- January 6 - Duane Hanson, sculptor (b. 1925)
- February 20 - Audrey Munson, actress and artist's model (b. 1891)
- March 5 - Joshua Compston - British Curator and Gallerist (b. 1970)
- March 15 - Helen Chadwick, feminist artist (b. 1953)
- April 14 - Mervyn Levy, artist and critic (b. 1915)
- October 23 - Lin Onus, painter and sculptor (b. 1948)
- November 29 - Dan Flavin, minimal sculptor (b. 1933)
- date unknown
- William Copley, painter (b. 1919)
- Felix Gonzalez-Torres, sculptor (b. 1957)sv:Konståret 1996
