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

↔

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.
• 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.

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)

References