2005 in art

• June – Zentrum Paul Klee, a museum dedicated to Paul Klee, designed by Renzo Piano, opens in Bern, Switzerland.
• September 30 – Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
• Museum of Art Fakes opens in Vienna.
• Banksy's Peckham Rock is installed surreptitiously in the British Museum (London) where it goes undetected for at least 3 days.{{cite book|title=Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff|first=Lydia|last=Pyne|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|year=2019|isbn=9781472961815|contribution=As seen in the British Museum|pages=178–180|contribution-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tmCWDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT178}}

• Archibald Prize – John Olsen, Self portrait Janus Faced
• Beck's Futures – Christina Mackie
• Caldecott Medal for children's book illustration – Kevin Henkes, Kitten's First Full Moon
• Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts – Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa
• Turner Prize – Simon Starling, Shedboatshed
• The Venice Biennial (June 12 – November 6):
• Lion d'Or Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Barbara Kruger (USA)
• Lion d'Or for Best Pavilion: Annette Messager (France)
• Wynne prize – Jenny Sages, The Road to Utopia

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• February 12–27 – The Gates, installation art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in Central Park, New York City.
• May 10 – Dedication of Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, designed by architect Peter Eisenman originally working with sculptor Richard Serra (both Americans), in Berlin.
• July 9 – Unveiling of Monument to the Women of World War II, sculpted by John W. Mills, in Whitehall, London.{{cite news|last=Smith|first=David|title=Queen honours war's heroines|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jul/10/secondworldwar.gender|accessdate=16 September 2011|newspaper=The Guardian|date=10 July 2005|archive-date=13 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190813221806/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jul/10/secondworldwar.gender|url-status=live}}
• John Aiken – Monolith and Shadow (sculpture outside University College Hospital, London)
• Louise Bourgeois – Father and Son (sculpture in Seattle)
• Herbert Dreiseitl – Artwall (installation art in Portland, Oregon)
• Elmgreen & Dragset - Prada Marfa in Marfa, Texas
• Barry Flanagan – Pirate's Wheel{{Cite web |url=https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2015/contemporary-art-day-auction-l15023/lot.208.html |title = flanagan, barry pirate wheel {{!}}{{!}}{{!}} figure {{!}}{{!}}{{!}} sotheby's l15023lot84jh2en |access-date=2021-05-07 |archive-date=2021-05-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507180728/https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2015/contemporary-art-day-auction-l15023/lot.208.html |url-status=live }}
• Kennardphilips - Photo Op, photomontage of Tony Blair in front of burning oil
• Damian Loeb – "Straw Dogs"{{Cite web|url=https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-damian-loeb-b-1970-straw-dogs-5595126/|title=Damian Loeb (born 1970)|website=www.christies.com}}
• Roy McMakin
• Love & Loss (installation art in Seattle)
• Untitled (Wooden Toilet)
• Ron Mueck – In Bed (sculpture in Queensland Gallery of Modern Art){{cite book |title=Ron Mueck (Exhibition Catalog)|last=Hurlston|first=David|year=2010|publisher=National Gallery of Victoria|location=Melbourne|display-authors=etal}}
• Odd Nerdrum – Cannibals
• Dennis Oppenheim – Engagement (sculptures)
• Bridget Riley – Red Movement

• Aleksander Balos – Travaux récents (organised by Arts nord sud, at Espace Griffon, Crédit Municipal, Paris, France)

• 1 January – Eugene J. Martin, American visual artist (b.1938).
• 2 January – Frank Kelly Freas, American illustrator and painter (born 1922)
• 4 January
• Guy Davenport, American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual and teacher (b.1927).
• Alton Tobey, American painter, historical artist, muralist, portraitist, illustrator and teacher (b.1914).
• 14 January
• Conroy Maddox, English surrealist painter, collagist, writer and lecturer (b.1912).
• Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer (b.1940).
• 25 January
• Philip Johnson, American major art collector, MoMA curator, influential architect (born 1906)
• Max Velthuijs, Dutch painter, illustrator and author (b.1923).
• 27 January
• Gordon Lambert, Irish art collector (b.1919).
• Aurélie Nemours, French painter (b.1910).
• 7 February – Paul Rebeyrolle, French painter (b.1926).
• 18 February – Harald Szeemann, Swiss curator and art historian (b.1933).
• 21 February – Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish painter, photographer, and fantasy artist (b.1929).
• 15 March – Judith Scott, American outsider fiber sculptor (b.1943).
• 20 March – Walter Hopps, American museum director and curator (b.1932).

• 5 April
• Dale Messick, first American woman syndicated comic strip artist (b.1906){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/07/arts/07cnd-messick.html?hp&_r=0|title=Dale Messick, Cartoonist Who Created Brenda Starr, Dies at 98|work=The New York Times|date=2005-04-07|accessdate=2015-03-03|archive-date=2015-04-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403041451/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/07/arts/07cnd-messick.html?hp&_r=0|url-status=live}}
• Neil Welliver, American painter (b.1929)
• 10 April – Carl Abrahams, Jamaican painter (b.1911)
• 11 April – André François, French cartoonist (b.1915)
• 13 April
• Philip Pavia, American sculptor (b.1912){{cite news|url=http://www.brooklynrail.org/2005/12/art/a-tribute-to-philip-pavia-1912-2005|title=A Tribute to Philip Pavia (1912–2005)|work=The Brooklyn Rail|date=2005-12-10|accessdate=2015-03-03|archive-date=2015-04-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402111945/http://www.brooklynrail.org/2005/12/art/a-tribute-to-philip-pavia-1912-2005|url-status=live}}
• Juan Zanotto, Italian-born Argentine comic book artist (b.1935)
• 19 April – Clement Meadmore, Australian-born American sculptor (b.1929)
• 22 April – Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish-born sculptor and artist (b.1924)
• 27 May
• Astrid Zydower, German-born British sculptor (b.1930)
• Fay Godwin, English landscape photographer (b.1931)
• 12 June – David Whitney, American independent curator and art dealer (b.1939)
• 21 June – Al Loving, African American abstract impressionist painter (b.1935)

• 22 July – Dragoš Kalajić, Serbian painter (born 1943)
• 26 July – Robert C. Turner, American potter (b.1913)
• 27 July – Al Held, American Abstract expressionist painter (b.1928)
• 1 August – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter, one of the innovators of Unitary Urbanism (b.1920)
• 16 August – Joe Ranft, American magician, animation storyboard artist and voice actor (b.1960)
• 22 August – Juliet Pannett, English portrait artist (born 1911)
• 26 August – Robert Denning, American interior designer (b.1927)
• 22 October – Arman, French-born American artist (b.1928)
• 28 October – Raymond Hains, French artist and photographer (b.1926)
• 11 November – Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, English photographer (b.1939)
• 2 December – Lillian Browse, English art dealer and historian (born 1906)

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