1975 in art

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Events

• 10 June – Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, designed by Josep Lluís Sert, is opened.
• The artists' community Kollektiv Herzogstrasse is founded by Heimrad Prem and others.
• The Brotherhood of Ruralists established at Wellow, Somerset, England.
• Mona Hatoum leaves her native Lebanon to study at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London.
• Four Ronnie Landfield paintings from the collection of Philip Johnson are installed at The Four Seasons Restaurant in New York City, on the wall which Mark Rothko was initially commissioned to create paintings for, and subsequently changed his mind. (In 1985 they are replaced by a mural.)
• Center for Creative Photography archival facility created at the University of Arizona (Tucson).
• An album created in 1864 by Julia Margaret Cameron for John Herschel is purchased by public subscription in Britain, one of the first recognitions of the country's heritage of photography as an art form.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Kevin Connor – The Hon Sir Frank Kitto, KBE

Exhibitions

• Brice Marden retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Works

• Vito Acconci – Plot
• Dara Birnbaum – Attack Piece
• Marcel Broodthaers – Daguerre's Soup, La salle blanche
• Elisabeth Frink – Shepherd and Sheep
• Eduardo Kingman – Unidad
• Gordon Matta-Clark – Day's End, Conical Intersect
• Louise Berliawsky Nevelson – Transparent Horizon

Births

• 1 January – Eiichiro Oda, Japanese manga artist.
• 13 June – Johannes Grenzfurthner, Austrian artist, writer, curator and director.
• 14 June – Chris Onstad, American writer, cartoonist and artist.
• 30 July – Graham Nicholls, British installation artist, activist and speaker.

Full date unknown

• Allan Cavanagh, Irish cartoonist and caricaturist.
• Frode Fjerdingstad, Norwegian photographer.
• Paul Renaud, French illustrator and comic book artist.

Deaths

January to June

• 19 January – Thomas Hart Benton, American painter and muralist (b. 1889).
• 23 February – Roger Hilton, English painter (b. 1911)
• 2 March – Madeleine Vionnet, French fashion designer (b. 1876).
• 9 March – Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (b. 1888).
• 10 April – Walker Evans, American photographer (b. 1903).
• 30 April – Gen Paul, French painter and engraver (b. 1895).
• 20 May – Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor and artist (b. 1903).

July to December

• 18 July – Vaughn Bodē, American underground comics, graphic design and graffiti artist, of autoerotic asphyxiation (b. 1941).
• 21 July – George Petty, American pin-up artist (b. 1894).
• 28 August – Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907).
• 2 October – Seamus Murphy, Irish sculptor (b. 1907).
• 25 October – Padraig Marrinan, Irish painter (b. 1906).
• 17 November – Michael Ayrton, English sculptor, graphic artist and writer (b. 1921).
• 20 December – Heinz Henghes, German sculptor (b. 1906).

Date unknown

• Leonardo Dudreville, Italian painter (b. 1885)

See also

• 1975 in fine arts of the Soviet Union