26 April – Nineteen Old Master paintings from the Beit collection are stolen from Russborough House in Ireland by a Provisional Irish Republican Army gang including English heiress Rose Dugdale.
Roy Strong becomes Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Hallwalls a non profit exhibition space and arts organization is established in a converted ice packing warehouse in Buffalo, New York by the artists Charles Clough, Robert Longo, Diane Bertolo, Nancy Dwyer, Larry Lundy, Cindy Sherman and Michael Zwack.
Archibald Prize: Sam Fullbrook – Jockey Norman Stephens
Bruce Beasley - Big Red (sculpture) in Eugene, Oregon
Judy Dater – Imogen and Twinka at Yosemite (photograph)
Silvio Gazzaniga - FIFA World Cup Trophy
Nabil Kanso – Vietnam
Joan Miró
Hands flying off toward the constellations
The hope of a condemned Man (series)
Odd Nerdrum – Liberation
Enzo Plazzotta – Crucifixion
Tony Rosenthal - 5 in 1 in New York City
Ruskin Spear – Harold Wilson
Graham Sutherland – Lord Goodman
David Wynne – Boy With a Dolphin (bronze, Cheyne Walk, London)
15 May – Kadir Nelson, African American illustrator.
31 May – Adrian Tomine, American cartoonist.
16 June – Paul Lee, English artist.
1 September – Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist, cartoonist and writer.
8 November – Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga artist.
13 November - Kerim Seiler, Swiss artist and architect
7 December – Kang Full, South Korean webcomic artist.
Banksy, English graffiti artist.
[Bogna Burska]], Polish playwright and visual artist.
Amelie Chabannes, French painter and sculptor.
Fabrice Lachant, French photographer.
Dulce Pinzon, Mexican-born visual artist.
Bojan Šarčević, Bosnian-French visual artist.
Bedwyr Williams, Welsh installation and performance artist.
15 February – Petar Lubarda, Serbian painter (b. 1907).
4 March – Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract expressionist painter and sculptor (b. 1903).
9 March – Daniel O'Neill, Irish painter (b. 1920).
5 April – A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (b. 1882).
31 May – Juan Bautista Garcia, Puerto Rican painter (b. 1904).
7 June
Émilie Charmy, French artist (b. 1878)
Milton Menasco, American painter and art director (b. 1890).
22 June – Alain Saint-Ogan, French comics author and artist (b. 1895).
30 June – Frank McKelvey, Irish painter (b. 1895).
9 July – Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French writer and artist (b. 1884).
11 August – Jan Tschichold, German typographer, book designer, teacher and writer (b. 1902).
August – André Edouard Marty, French artist (b. 1882).
8 September – James Swinnerton, American cartoonist and artist (b. 1875).
17 September – André Dunoyer de Segonzac, French painter and graphic artist (b. 1884).
28 October – David Jones, English poet and painter (b. 1895).
20 December – Risto Stijović, Serbian sculptor (b. 1894).
21 December – James Henry Govier, English painter (b. 1910).
25 December – Harry Kernoff, Irish painter (b. 1900).
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