1996 in art

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Archibald Prize - Wendy Sharpe, Self Portrait as Diana of Erskineville
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

British Art Show 5 - various venues in Manchester
Sol LeWitt Prints: 1970-1995 - travelling exhibition by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Vermeer - nearly complete exhibition of 25 works, The Hague and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

6 January - Duane Hanson, American sculptor (b.1925).
11 February - Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, French photographer and ethnographer (b.1902).
18 January - Leonor Fini, Argentine surrealist painter (b.1908).
28 January - Jerry Siegel, American comic book artist (b.1914).
20 February - Audrey Munson, American actress and artist's model (b.1891).
5 March - Joshua Compston - British gallerist (b.1970).
15 March - Helen Chadwick, British artist (b.1953).
14 April - Mervyn Levy, Welsh artist and critic (b.1915).
25 April - Saul Bass, American graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker (b.1920).
10 June - Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (b.1906).

28 July - Roger Tory Peterson, American naturalist, ornithologist, artist and educator (b.1908).
24 October - Lin Onus, Scottish-Aboriginal Koori artist (b.1948).
26 November - Paul Rand, American graphic designer (b.1914).
29 November - Dan Flavin, American minimalist artist (b.1933).
3 December - Jean Tabaud, French artist (b.1914).
11 December - Willie Rushton, English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer (b.1937).
16 December - Quentin Bell, English art historian and author (b.1910).
25 December - Gabriel Loire, French stained glass artist (b.1904).