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.
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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November
December
- 5 - 7: Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach
Events
Exhibitions
- January 10 until March 16 - Nick Cave: Amalgams and Graphts at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City.
- January 18 until June 1 - Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World is a Mystery at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- February 8 until May 11 - Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
- February 14 until June 15 - Anselm Kiefer: The Early Works at the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University in Oxford, England.
- February 18 until March 8 - Sylvie Covey: Botanical Space at the nohp M55 Gallery in New York City.
- March 6 until April 19 - Walton Ford: Tutto at Gagosian in New York City.
- March 6]] until April 19 - Julio Galán (a two part exhibition) at Luhring Augustine Gallery and Kurimanzutto in New York City.
- April 9 until August 10 - Amy Sherald: American Sublime at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
- April 9 until August 31 - David Hockney; 25 at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, France.
- April 18 until July 3 - Picasso: Tête-à-tête (in collaboration with Paloma Picasso) at the Gagosian Gallery on Madison Avenue in New York City.
- April 27 until August 3 - Sargent and Paris at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Awards
Works
Deaths
January
- January 3 – La Chunga, 87, Spanish flamenco dancer, painter. and painter's muse (Salvador Dali) (born 1938)
- January 4
- Ed Askew, 84, American painter (born 1940)
- Peter Brandes, 80, Danish painter and sculptor (born 1944)
- Elisabeth Haarr, 78, Norwegian textile artist (born 1945)
- January 4 – Jagdish Mittal, 99, Indian art collector (born 1925)
- January 5 – Philippa Blair, 79, New Zealand artist (born 1945).
- January 7 – Leo Segedin, 97, American painter (born 1927)
- January 8 – Alastair MacKinven, 53, British artist (born 1971) (death announced on this date)
- January 13 – Oliviero Toscani, 82, Italian photographer (Benetton) (born 1942)
- January 16
- David Lynch, 78, American film director and visual artist (born 1946)
- George A. Tice, 86, American photographer (born 1938)
- January 17 – Jules Feiffer, 95, American cartoonist, author, and visual artist (born 1929)
- January 21
- Jo Baer, 95, American painter (born 1929)
- Håkon Bleken, 96, Norwegian painter (born 1929)
- Renina Katz, 99, Brazilian engraver (born 1925}
- January 22 – Aaron De Groft, 59, American art museum director (Orlando Museum of Art) (born 1965). (death announced on this date)
- January 24
- Rutherford Chang, 45, American conceptual artist (born 1979)
- Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, 85, American artist and curator (born 1940)
- January 27 – Alonzo Davis, 82, American artist and academic (born 1942)
- 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)
- February 2 – Helga de Alvear, 88, German-Spanish art collector and dealer (born 1936)
- February 3
- David Edward Byrd, 83, American graphic artist (born 1941)
- Lim Tze Peng, 103, Singaporean painter (born 1921)
- February 5
- Satoru Abe, 98, American sculptor and painter (born 1926)
- Waldo Díaz-Balart, 93, Cuban painter and sculptor (born 1931)
- February 8 – Yrjö Kukkapuro, 91, Finnish interior architect and furniture designer (born 1933)
- February 9 - Walter Robinson, 74, American painter and art writer (born 1950).
- February 10 - Mustafa Arruf, 66, Spanish sculptor (born 1958)
- February 11 - Kay Smith, 101, American visual artist (born 1923)
- February 12 - Mel Bochner, 84, American conceptual artist (born 1940)
- February 20 - Frankétienne, 88, Haitian painter (born 1936)
- February 23 - Ming Fay, 82, Chinese-born American sculptor (born 1943)
March
- March 1 - Jack Vettriano, 73, Scottish painter (The Singing Butler) (born 1951)
- March 3 - Victor Cicansky, 90, Canadian sculptor (born 1935)
- March 14 - Fred Eversley, 83, American sculptor (born 1941)
- March 17 - Peter Sedgley, 95, English artist, co-founder of Space Studios (born 1930)
- March 22
- Joe Goode, 87, American painter.
- Asaf Lifshitz, 82, Israeli sculptor (born 1942)
- March 25 - Abdul Karim Al-Orrayed, 90-91, Bahraini artist (born 1934)
- March 27 - Marcia Marcus, 97, American painter (born 1928)
April
- April 6 - Max Kozloff, 91, American art historian and art critic (born 1933)
- April 11 - Gretchen Dow Simpson, 85, American painter (born 1939)
- April 14 - Elaine Wynn 82, American art collector and philanthropist (born 1942)
- April 19 - Guy Ullens, 90, Belgian art collector (born 1935)
- April 22 - Zurab Tsereteli, 91, Russian-Georgian sculptor (Birth of the New World, To the Struggle Against World Terrorism), painter, and architect, president of the Russian Academy of Arts (born 1934)
- April 23 - Tony Bechara , 83, Puerto Rican-American painter (born 1942)
- April 27 - Suki Seokyeong Kang, 48, South Korean visual artist (born 1977)
May
- May 2 - Dara Birnbaum, 78, American video and installation artist (born 1946)