He works in Nice, he practices scuba diving and fishing, sels furniture, cars and household appliances.

First solo exhibition of Cachets and paintings held at the Galerie du Haut-Pavé, Paris.

Exhibition at Galerie La Roue, Paris.
« Micro-Salon d’Avril » at Galerie Iris Clert, with 50 others artists (ie: Alechensky, Appel, Arp, Baj, Benrath, Bryen, Dali, César, Corneille, Max Ernst, Klein, Fautrier, Fontana, Gromaire, Hartung, Habbah, Hundertwasser, Jorn, Kricke, Laubiès, Manessier, Michaux, Mubin, Penalba, Picasso, Pignon, Quentin, Marie Raymond, Rioppelle, Singier,Takis, Dorothea Tanning, Tinguely, Tsingos, Vasarely, Wilfredo-Lam...).
The printer of the invitation omits the "d" from his name.

« Les Olympiens, peintures récentes de ARMAN » at Galerie Iris Clert, Paris. He decides he prefers to drop the “d” at the end of his name to be known as Arman.

He travels in a 2CV car to Iran, Turkey, and Afghanistan with Eliane and “Pere Steve”, a friend researcher and Dominican Priest who is studying proto- Sumerian cuneiform languages with the French archaeological mission.
 

He makes his first sculptures, Poubelle, Accumulation.
First solo exhibition held in Italy at the Galerie Apollinaire, Milan.
Exhibition at Galerie Saint-Germain, Paris

« Arman Allures d’Objets » at Galerie Saint-Germain, Paris.
Exhibition at Galerie Smella, Dusseldorf.

He fills up the Galerie Iris Clert with garbage, creating “Le Plein” ("Full Up").
 

He signs a manifesto with Klein, Raysse, Hains, Tinguely Spoerri and Villeglé, founding for this occasion the “Nouveau Realisme” movement with the art critic and historian Pierre Restany. New Realism = new perceptive approaches of reality.
He meets Larry Rivers, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns in Paris and has his first English lessons taught by Rauschenberg.

He smashes furniture for the “first New Realism festival” at Abbaye de Roseland in Nice, creating his first public Colère. Arman does it again in September at Paris, for a session of collective performance with Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle, in front of the cameras of NBC channel.
He accumulates objects in polyester.

For his first visit to New York, he is included in a group exhibition in a museum: “The Art of Assemblage” at the Museum of Modern Art.
Simultaneously, his first solo exhibition in the United States opens at Cordier-Warren Gallery in New York.
He lives for several months at the Chelsea Hotel in New York, as he will do each year until 1968.
He meets Marcel Duchamp at a dinner given by the artist and collector William Copley.