1964 in art

Events

• July 28 – Fondation Maeght museum of modern and contemporary art at Saint-Paul-de-Vence in the Alpes-Maritimes of France, designed by Spanish Catalan architect Josep Lluís Sert, is opened.
• The prize for foreign artist at the Venice Biennale is awarded to Robert Rauschenberg.
• David Bailey issues Box of Pin-Ups, a collection of his photographic portraits, in London.
• The National Gallery purchases Rembrandt's painting Belshazzar's Feast from The Art Fund.

  Exhibitions

• November 9–30 – 8 Young Artists exhibition curated by Martin Ries and E. C. Goossen at the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, including Carl Andre; subsequently travels to Bennington College, Vermont.
• The Post-painterly Abstraction exhibition curated by art critic Clement Greenberg opens at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and subsequently travels to the Walker Art Center and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.

  Works

• Joseph Beuys – Fat Chair
• Josef Pillhofer – Reclining Man
• Pauline Boty – It's A Man's World
• Montague Dawson – Ariel and Taeping
• Barbara Hepworth – Single Form
• L. S. Lowry – The Black Church
• René Magritte – The Son of Man
• Ronald Moody - Savacou
• Norman Rockwell
• * Growth of a Leader
• * The Problem We All Live With
• Gerald Scarfe – drawing of Winston Churchill
• Jean Tinguely – Heureka
• Andy Warhol
• * Electric Chair
• * Empire
• * The Shot Marilyns
• * Sleep
• Roy Lichtenstein – Oh, Jeff...I Love You, Too...But...
• David Wynne – The Beatles

  Births

• January 20 – Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau, Spanish Catalan military and historical hyper realist painter
• February 3 – Valérie Belin, French photographer
• April 30 – Kelly Sullivan, American "FingerSmear" painter
• May 17 – Rob Pruitt, American post-conceptual artist
• June 23 – Peter Joyce, English landscape painter
• September 10 – Edmund de Waal, English ceramicist
• date unknown
• * Paul Cadden, Scottish hyperrealist
• * Mark Leckey, English visual artist

  Deaths

• January 1 – Paul Ninas, American painter
• January 17 – Đorđe Andrejević Kun, Serbian painter
• January 26 – Xawery Dunikowski, sculptor
• January 28 – Marion Dorn, American-born textile designer
• February 25 – Alexander Archipenko, sculptor
• February 27 – Orry-Kelly, costume designer
• March 12 – Jovan Bijelić, Serbian painter
• March 28 – Vlastislav Hofman, painter, architect
• April 4 – Seán O'Sullivan, portrait painter
• April 20 – August Sander, photographer
• May 9 – Rico Lebrun, Italian-American painter and sculptor
• June 18 – Giorgio Morandi, still life painter
• June 24 – Stuart Davis, painter
• June 26 – Gerrit Rietveld, designer and architect
• July 21 – Jean Fautrier, painter and sculptor
• August 31 – Peter Lanyon, landscape painter
• November 5 – Mabel Lucie Attwell, English illustrator
• December 29 – Vladimir Favorsky, Russian graphic artist
• unknown date – Tanasko Milovich, Serbian painter