Completion of the Cubist-influenced Church of the Holy Trinity, Vienna, by Fritz Wotruba.
Collection de l'art brut ("Collection of outsider art") established in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Archibald Prize: Brett Whiteley – Self Portrait in the Studio
25 May – Opening of exhibition of color photography by William Eggleston at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
21 July – Opening of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, New York. The inaugural exhibition Rooms presents in-situ works and installations by around 80 artists from the United States and abroad.
Vito Acconci – The Red Tapes
Judy Baca and 400 community artists – Great Wall of Los Angeles (mural)
Francis Bacon – Triptych
Pye Engström – Efter badet
Nabil Kanso – Faust (paintings) 1976 through 1979
R. B. Kitaj – From London
Henry Moore – Three Piece Reclining Figure Draped (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Robert Ryman – Untitled (pastel and graphite on plexiglas with steel, 126 cm2)
Douglas Senft – Awning (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
Jamie Wyeth – Portrait of Andy Warhol
4 January – Shiro Amano, Japanese manga artist
27 January – Zoriah Miller, American photographer
13 February – Martin Sastre, Uruguayan media artist
23 November – Joy de Wit, Dutch painter
1 February – Hans Richter, German painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-experimenter and producer (b. 1888)
2 February – Zlatyu Boyadzhiev, Bulgarian painter (b. 1903)
12 February – Charles Jourdan, French fashion designer (b. 1883)
18 February – Wallace Berman, American painter and illustrator (b. 1926)
23 February – L. S. Lowry, English painter (b. 1887)
February – Kate Lechmere, English painter associated with the Vorticists and milliner (b. 1887)
3 March – Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (b. 1900)
12 March – Jacques Carlu, French architect and designer (b. 1890)
22 March – John McLaughlin, American hard-edge painter (b. 1898)
25 March – Josef Albers, German artist, mathematician and educator (b. 1888)
31 March – Paul Strand, American photographer and filmmaker (b. 1890)
1 April – Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet (b. 1891).
22 April – Stanley Cursiter, Scottish painter and curator (b. 1887).
24 April – Mark Tobey, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1890)
11 May – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect and designer (b. 1898)
28 May – Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (b. 1922)
24 June – Imogen Cunningham, American photographer (b. 1883)
27 June – Albert Dubout, French cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor (b.1905)
24 July – Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (b. 1912)
16 September – Cecil Thomas, English bronze sculptor and medallist (b. 1885)
23 September – Anna Zinkeisen, British artist (b. 1901)
31 October – Eileen Gray, Irish furniture designer and architect (b. 1878)
11 November – Alexander Calder, American sculptor and artist (b. 1898)
18 November – Man Ray, American artist and photographer (b. 1890)
11 December – Elmyr de Hory, Hungarian-born painter and art forger (b. 1906)
31 December – Sándor Bortnyik, Hungarian painter and graphic designer (b. 1893)
Mariano Andreu, Spanish painter, enamelling master, sculptor and stage designer (b. 1888)
François Ozenda, French painter (b. 1923)
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