January 7 – The Tate Gallery, London, is flooded by the River Thames.
March 26 – The China Academy of Art is founded in Hangzhou (originally named the National Academy of Art).
August – Ben Nicholson and Kit Wood visit St. Ives, Cornwall, and meet the ex-fisherman painter Alfred Wallis.
October – English artist and designer Eric Gill moves with some of his artistic community from Capel-y-ffin in Wales to 'Pigotts' at Speen, Buckinghamshire, near High Wycombe.
November 18 – Film debut of Mickey Mouse, designed by Ub Iwerks.
Clarice Cliff introduces her Crocus pottery decoration.
Pierre Chareau and colleagues begin construction of the Maison de Verre ("house of glass") on the rue Saint-Guillaume in Paris for client Jean Dalsace.
Charles Haslewood Shannon suffers a fall while hanging a picture which ends his career as an artist.
Archibald Prize: John Longstaff – Portrait of Dr Alexander Leeper
Carnegie Prize – André Derain
Art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Painting: Isaac Israëls – Cavalier Rouge
Drawing: Jean Jacoby – Rugby
Graphic work: William Nicholson – An Almanac of Twelve Sports
Alexander Calder's first solo exhibition at the Weyhe Gallery, New York City.
L'Exposition surréaliste at the Galerie du Sacre du Printemps, Paris.
Wäinö Aaltonen – bust of Jean Sibelius
Tarsila do Amaral – Abaporu
Pierre Bonnard – Flowers on a Red Carpet
John Steuart Curry – Bathers and Baptism in Kansas
Charles Demuth – I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
Edwin Dickinson – The Fossil Hunters
M. C. Escher – Tower of Babel (woodcut)
George Grosz – Hinterground (portfolio of lithographs)
Edward Hopper – Night Windows
Prudence Heward – Girl on a Hill
Frida Kahlo – Dama de Blanco
André Kertész – The Fork (photograph)
Sir John Lavery – Portrait of Lady Lavery as Kathleen Ni Houlihan
Tamara de Lempicka – Portrait of Dr. Boucard
L. S. Lowry
A Street Scene
Going to the Match
Eugenie McEvoy – Taxi! Taxi!
René Magritte – The Empty Mask
Henri Matisse – Odalisque au fauteuil turc
Ivan Meštrović – The Bowman and The Spearman (equestrian sculptures, Chicago)
Mahmoud Mokhtar – Egypt's Renaissance (sculpture group, Cairo University, begun 1919, completed)
Christian Schad – Two Girlfriends
Charles Sheeler – Upper Deck (photograph, approximate date)
Zinaida Serebriakova – Lit By The Sun
Charles Sims – I Am the Abyss and I Am Light
John French Sloan – Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street
Alexej von Jawlensky – Abstract Head
George Fite Waters – Abraham Lincoln (bronze, Portland, Oregon)
31 January – Dušan Džamonja, Macedonian sculptor
1 March – Jacques Rivette, French filmmaker (d. 2016)
3 March – Jean Rustin, French painter
24 April – Cy Twombly, American abstract artist (d. 2011)
28 April – Yves Klein, French abstract artist (d. 1962)
14 May – Władysław Hasior, Polish sculptor, painter and set designer (d. 1999)
30 May – Pro Hart, Australian painter (d. 2006)
3 June – Donald Judd, American sculptor (d. 1994)
June 25
Peyo, Belgian comics artist (d. 1992)
Alex Toth, American comic book artist and cartoonist (d. 2006)
July 10 – Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999)
August 6 – Andy Warhol, American artist, director and writer (d. 1987)
August 12 – Charles Blackman, Australian painter and illustrator
August 15 – Alan Collins, English figurative religious sculptor (d. 2016)
August 31 – Jeremy Maas, English art dealer and historian of Victorian painting (d. 1997)
September 9 – Sol LeWitt, American conceptual and minimalist artist (d. 2007)
October 7 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
October 12 – Al Held, American Abstract expressionist painter (d. 2005)
October 30 – Michael Andrews, English painter (d. 1995)
November 3 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist, animator and film producer (d. 1989)
November 17 – Arman, French-born American artist (d. 2005)
November 27 – Josh Kirby, English commercial artist (d. 2001)
December 2 – Guy Bourdin, French photographer (d.1991)
December 12 – Helen Frankenthaler, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 2011)
December 13 – Wolfgang Hutter, Austrian painter, lithographer and designer
December 15 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor (d. 2000)
December 31 – Siné, French cartoonist (d. 2016)
Norman Carlberg, American sculptor
Wally Hedrick, American artist (d. 2003)
Brian O'Doherty aka Patrick Ireland, Irish-born art critic and installation artist
January 6 – Adolfo de Carolis, painter, xylographer, illustrator and photographer (b. 1874)
January 8 – Gyula Basch, painter (b. 1859)
January 13 – Frederick Arthur Bridgman, painter (b. 1847)
January 26 – Henrietta Rae, English painter (b. 1859)
March 31 – Medardo Rosso, sculptor (b. 1858)
April 5 – Viktor Oliva, painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
April 13 – Charles Sims, English painter (suicide, b. 1873)
May 16 – Frederick Arthur Verner, landscape painter (b. 1836)
June 22 – A. B. Frost, illustrator (b. 1851)
July 10 – John Chambers, landscape and portrait painter (b. 1852)
July 25 – Jane Sutherland, landscape painter (b. 1853)
August 30 – Franz Stuck, symbolist /Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver and architect (b. 1863)
September 20 – Ivan Tišov, painter (b. 1870)
October 30 – Percy Anderson, stage designer and painter (b. 1851)
November 15 – Godfred Christensen, painter (b. 1845)
December 1 – Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth, painter (b. 1855)
December 2 – Robert Reid, Impressionist painter (b. 1862)
December 10 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect and designer (b. 1868)
December 18 – Nils Bergslien, illustrator, painter and sculptor (b. 1853)
date unknown – Raffaello Romanelli, sculptor (b. 1856)
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