See also 2003 in art, 2005 in art, List of years in Art
Works
- Marco Evaristti creates Ice Cube Project by selecting and then painting an ice berg in the Arctic.
Exhibitions
- July 9 - July 11 - Toronto Street Festival and Outdoor Art Exhibition
Births
Deaths
- January 4 - Jeff Nuttall, painter and sculptor
- January 9 - Nissim Ezekiel, art critic
- February 7 - Norman Thelwell, cartoonist
- April 1 - Enrique Grau, painter and sculptor
- May 12 - Syd Hoff, cartoonist
- July 2 - John Cullen Murphy, cartoonist
- August 3 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographer
- August 8 - Leon Golub, artist
- August 25 - Don Ashton , film art director and designer
- October 13 - Ivor Wood, animator
- October 15 - Irv Novick, comic book artist
- November 13 - Harry Lampert, cartoonist and advertising artist
- November 19 - Trina Schart Hyman, illustrator
- December 9 - Sergey Voychenko, artist/designer
- December 16 - Agnes Martin, abstract painter
- December 17 - Tom Wesselmann, pop artist
