1996 in art

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See also: 1995 in art, other events of 1996, 1997 in art, List_of_years in art.

Awards

• Archibald Prize - Wendy Sharpe
• 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

Works

• Dream City (Yorkshire Sculpture Park) - Anthony Caro
• Intensities and Surfaces - Anya Gallaccio
• This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed at home - Damien Hirst
• House 1 - Roy Lichtenstein

Exhibitions

• Aleksander Balos - Clara Voce Cogito, (Chastain Zollinger Gallery, Chicago)
• British Art Show 5 - various venues in Manchester
• Sol LeWitt Prints: 1970-1995 - travelling exhibition by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• Ugo Nespolo - Le Stanze dell'Arte, Turin
• Vermeer - nearly complete exhibition of 25 works, The Hague and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Deaths

• January 6 - Duane Hanson, sculptor
• February 20 - Audrey Munson, actress and artist's model
• March 15 - Helen Chadwick, feminist artist
• Joshua Compston - British Curator and Gallerist
• April 14 - Mervyn Levy, artist and critic
• October 23 - Lin Onus
• Jane W. Steiner, painter
• Felix Gonzalez-Torres