2025 in art

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The year 2025 in art involves various significant events.

Art Fairs

Listed are art fairs with an article on the English Wikipedia. ^[1]

January

• 22 – 26: London Art Fair

February

• 5 – 9: Zona Maco, Mexico City.
• 6 – 9: India Art Fair, New Delhi

March

• 5 – 9: Art Madrid
• 15 – 20: TEFAF, Maastricht

April

• 18 – 20: Art Dubai
• 24 – 27: Expo Chicago

May

• 1 – 4, 8 – 11: Clio, New York
• 8 – 11: 1-54, New York
• 8 – 11: Independent, New York
• 17 – 18: Springfield Old Capitol, Illinois

June

• 7 – 8: 57th Street, Chicago
• 19 – 22: Art Basel

July

• 11 – 13: Cairns Indigenous Art
• 17 – 19: Ann Arbor Street Art Fair

August

• 9 – 11: Darwin Festival
• 28 – 31: Enter Art, Copenhague

September

• 5 – 7: The Armory Show, New York
• 25 – 28: British Art Fair, London

October

• 3 – 5: Art Jakarta
• 16 – 19: Highlights Internationale Künstmesse, Munich
• 23 – 26: Art Toronto

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December

• 5 - 7: Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach

Exhibitions

• January 10 until March 16 - Nick Cave: Amalgams and Graphts at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City. ^[2]
• January 18 until June 1 - Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World is a Mystery at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ^[3]
• February 8 until May 11 - Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. ^[4]
• February 14 until June 15 - Anselm Kiefer: The Early Works at the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University in Oxford, England. ^[5]

Deaths

January

• January 3 – La Chunga, 87, Spanish flamenco dancer, painter. and painter's muse (Salvador Dali) (born 1938) ^[6]
• January 4
  • Ed Askew, 84, American painter (born 1940) ^[7]
  • Peter Brandes, 80, Danish painter and sculptor (born 1944) ^[8]
  • Elisabeth Haarr, 78, Norwegian textile artist (born 1945) ^[9]
• January 4 – Jagdish Mittal, 99, Indian art collector (born 1925) ^[10]
• January 5 – Philippa Blair, 79, New Zealand artist (born 1945). ^[11]
• January 7 – Leo Segedin, 97, American painter (born 1927) ^[12]
• January 8 – Alastair MacKinven, 53, British artist (born 1971) ^[13] (death announced on this date)
• January 13 – Oliviero Toscani, 82, Italian photographer (Benetton) (born 1942) ^[14]
• January 16
  • David Lynch, 78, American film director and visual artist (born 1946) ^[15]
  • George A. Tice, 86, American photographer (born 1938) ^[16]
• January 17 – Jules Feiffer, 95, American cartoonist, author, and visual artist (born 1929) ^[17]
• January 21
  • Jo Baer, 95, American painter (born 1929) ^[18]
  • Håkon Bleken, 96, Norwegian painter (born 1929) ^[19]
  • Renina Katz, 99, Brazilian engraver (born 1925} ^[20]
• January 22 – Aaron De Groft, 59, American art museum director (Orlando Museum of Art) (born 1965). ^[21] (death announced on this date)
• January 24
  • Rutherford Chang, 45, American conceptual artist (born 1979) ^[22]
  • Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, 85, American artist and curator (born 1940) ^[23]
• January 27 – Alonzo Davis, 82, American artist and academic (born 1942) ^[24]
• 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) ^[25]
• February 2 – Helga de Alvear, 88, German-Spanish art collector and dealer (born 1936) ^[26]
• February 3
  • David Edward Byrd, 83, American graphic artist (born 1941) ^[27]
  • Lim Tze Peng, 103, Singaporean painter (born 1921) ^[28]
• February 5
  • Satoru Abe, 98, American sculptor and painter (born 1926) ^[29]
  • Waldo Díaz-Balart, 93, Cuban painter and sculptor (born 1931) ^[30]
• February 8 – Yrjö Kukkapuro, 91, Finnish interior architect and furniture designer (born 1933) ^[31]
• February 9 - Walter Robinson, 74, American painter and art writer (born 1950). ^[32]
• February 10 - Mustafa Arruf, 66, Spanish sculptor (born 1958) ^[33]
• February 11 - Kay Smith, 101, American visual artist (born 1923) ^[34]
• February 12 - Mel Bochner, 84, American conceptual artist (born 1940) ^[35]
• February 20 - Frankétienne, 88, Haitian painter (born 1936) ^[36]

March

• March 1 - Jack Vettriano, 73, Scottish painter ( The Singing Butler ) (born 1951) ^[37]
• March 3 - Victor Cicansky, 90, Canadian sculptor (born 1935) ^[38]

References

1. "Art Fair Calendar | All the fairs listed by date | artfairmag.com". artfairmag. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
2. "Nick Cave: Amalgams and Graphts Exhibitions". Jack Shainman Gallery.
3. "Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery". Carnegie Museum of Art.
4. "The Met Presents First Major Retrospective in the United States Dedicated to Caspar David Friedrich - the Metropolitan Museum of Art". 22 January 2025.
5. ANSELM KIEFER: EARLY WORKS | Ashmolean Museum https://search.app/VToXZAAVsVeBC56q9
6. Martín, Manuel (3 January 2025). "Muere La Chunga, la genial bailaora descalza, a los 87 años". El Mundo (in Spanish).
7. LaPierre, Megan (6 January 2025). "Ed Askew Has Died". Exclaim! .
8. "Kirkekunster Peter Brandes er død" (in Danish). 4 January 2025. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
9. Amalie Thorlund Jepsen (4 January 2025). "Elisabeth Astrup Haarr er død: – En av våre største kunstnere". dr.dk. FVN. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
10. Nanisetti, Serish (7 January 2025). "Jagdish Mittal: The artist as an aesthete and patron of artists". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 7 January 2025.
11. "Philippa Blair Obituary (2025)". The New Zealand Herald.
12. Goldsborough, Bob (9 January 2025). "Leo Segedin, artist whose magic realism often depicted his West Side youth, dies at 97". Chicago Tribune . Archived from the original on 9 January 2025.
13. Turner, Luke (10 January 2025). "Alastair Mackinven Has Died, Aged 53". The Quietus.
14. Comerford, Ruth (13 January 2025). "Oliviero Toscani, Benetton's shock photographer, dies aged 82". BBC News.
15. Sutton, Benjamin (16 January 2025). "David Lynch, artist and film-maker who portrayed America's dark side with surreal humour and violence, has died, aged 78". The Art Newspaper.
16. Davis, Mike (19 January 2025). "George Tice, NJ 'photographer laureate,' dies at 86". Asbury Park Press .
17. Jules Feiffer Obituary
18. Greenberger, Alex (22 January 2025). "Jo Baer, Painter Who Renounced Minimalism for Radical Figuration, Dies at 95". ARTnews .
19. Levold, Henning (21 January 2025). "Håkon Bleken er død". NRK (in Norwegian Nynorsk).
20. Galantier Krasilchik, Davi (22 January 2025). "Morre artista Renina Katz, desenhista e gravurista brasileira, aos 99 anos". Jornal de Brasília (in Brazilian Portuguese).
21. Schneider, Mike (22 January 2025). "Former Florida art museum director involved in Basquiat forged painting probe has died". Associated Press.
22. Rutherford Chang, Who Turned Collections Into Art, Dies at 45 - The New York Times https://search.app/xeUDkgk8Px4b8BLm9
23. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Painter Who Plotted a New Path for Native American Artists, Dies at 85
24. Alonzo Davis, Artist Who Founded One of America's First Black-Owned Galleries, Dies at 82
25. Richard Kramlich, Collector Who Invested Deeply in Video Art, Dies at 89
26. Helga de Alvear, Art Dealer Who Helped Found the Arco Madrid Art Fair, Dies at 88
27. Barnes, Mike (4 February 2025). "David Edward Byrd, Famed Rock and Broadway Poster Artist, Dies at 83". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 5 February 2025.
28. 著名书画家林子平逝世 享寿104岁 (in Chinese)
29. Satoru Abe, ‘godfather’ of Hawaii’s art scene, dies at 98
30. "The renowned Cuban painter Waldo Díaz-Balart has passed away in Madrid". 5 February 2025.
31. Finnish designer Yrjö Kukkapuro, whose postmodern chairs graced waiting rooms and museums, dies
32. Walter Robinson, Gimlet-Eyed Critic and Sharp-Sighted Painter, Dies at 74
33. Muere a los 66 años de edad Mustafa Arruf, el escultor más importante en la historia de Melilla (in Spanish)
34. Kay Smith, renowned artist and Illinois Artist Laureate, dies at 101
35. Mel Bochner dies aged 84
36. Haïti pleure Franck Étienne : Le Premier ministre salue la mémoire d’un géant de la culture (in French)
37. Singing Butler painter Jack Vettriano dies aged 73
38. Renowned Saskatchewan sculptor Victor Cicansky dies at 90