1965 in art

Events

• May – Avant-garde artists Marta Minujín and Rubén Santantonín present La Menesunda in Buenos Aires, one of the first installations in art history.
• September – Indica Gallery counterculture bookshop and art gallery opens in London.
• October 7 – Release in the United States of the biographical film The Agony and the Ecstasy with Charlton Heston portraying Michelangelo.
• December – Max's Kansas City nightclub opens in New York City
• Sculptor Barbara Hepworth is created a Dame.

  Awards

• Archibald Prize: Clifton Pugh – R A Henderson
• John Moores Painting Prize - Michael Tyzack for " Alesso 'B' "

  Films

• The Agony and the Ecstasy

  Works

• Yaacov Agam – Double Metamorphosis II
• Mark di Suvero – Bunyon's Chess
• Lucian Freud – Reflection with Two Children
• L. S. Lowry
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• * Industrial Scene
• John Petts – Birmingham, Alabama, 16th Street Baptist Church, West Window
• Fairfield Porter – Elizabeth
• James Rosenquist – F-111
• David Wynne – Busts of Joan Baez and Oskar Kokoschka
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial

  Births

• February 20 – Miriam Mone, Northern Irish fashion designer
• March 9 – Brom, American illustrator
• July 9 – Jason Rhoades, American installation artist
• December 16 – Ellen Gallagher, American artist
• date unknown
• * Hurvin Anderson, English painter
• * Tacita Dean, English-born visual artist
• * Andrea Fraser, American performance artist
• * Elizabeth Peyton, American portrait painter
• * Jessica Voorsanger, American-born visual artist
• * Andrea Zittel, American installation artist and sculptor

  Deaths

• January 3 – Milton Avery, American painter
• January 7 – Anne Redpath, Scottish still life painter
• January 27 – Abraham Walkowitz, American painter working in the Modernist style
• February 18 – Yevgeny Charushin, Russian graphic artists
• February 24 – Frank H. Mason, English marine and poster painter
• May 7 – Charles Sheeler, American modernist painter and photographer
• May 19 – Albin Polasek, Czech American sculptor
• May 20 – Charles Camoin, French Fauvist painter
• June 14 – Zoltán Kemény, Hungarian Swiss sculptor
• June 21 – Piotr Buchkin, Russian painter and graphic artist
• June 26 – G. David Thompson, American industrialist and collector of modern art
• August 27 – Le Corbusier, Swiss-born French architect and painter
• October 19 – Edward Willis Redfield, American landscape painter
• date unknown – George Barker, American painter