April 19 – Yale Center for British Art gallery, designed by Louis Kahn (died 1974), opens to the public in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
May 8–24 – Suzanne Lacy's extended performance piece about rape, Three Weeks in May takes place in Los Angeles.
Starr Kempf constructs the first of his "wind sculptures".
documenta 6 takes place.
Douglas Crimp curates "Pictures," featuring Jack Goldstein, Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine and others, at Artists Space in New York.
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Iran, designed by Kamran Diba, is inaugurated.
Archibald Prize: Kevin Connor – Robert Klippel
Retrospective of Valentine Hugo at the Centre Culturel Thibaud de Champagne, Troyes.
Retrospective of Frida Kahlo at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.
Marina Abramović and Ulay – Expansion in Space
Walter De Maria – The Lightning Field (land art)
Lucian Freud – Naked Man with Rat
Gilbert & George – Series of Red Morning works
David Hockney – My Parents
Donald Judd – Untitled (Meter Box)
Nabil Kanso – The Vortices of Wrath (Lebanon 1977)
Jacob Lawrence – Self-portrait
Jacques Lipchitz – Bellerophon Taming Pegasus (sculpture, New York City)
Kathleen McCullough – Cat in Repose (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
Gordon Matta-Clark – Jacob's Ladder
Ivan Meštrović – Martin Kukučín (sculptures)
Robert Morris – Williams Mirrors
David Shepherd – Tiger in the Sun
Cindy Sherman – Untitled Film Stills (through 1980)
C. Talacca – Simón Bolívar (bronze, Houston, Texas)
Jean Tinguely – Tinguely Fountain and Carnival Fountain (Fasnachtsbrunnen) (both kinetic sculptures in Basel)
Don Wilson – Interlocking Forms (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
8 February – Yucef Merhi, Venezuelan artist, poet and computer programmer.
16 April – Florentijn Hofman, Dutch installation artist.
16 December – Kevin Gillespie, American comic book creator and graphic artist.
Gregory Halpern, American photographer.
27 April – Charles Alston, American artist, muralist, and teacher (b. 1907).
27 June – Ivan Tabaković, Serbian painter (b. 1898)
3 July – Gertrude Abercrombie, American painter (b. 1909).
21 July – Lee Miller, American photographer (b. 1907).
23 August – Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor (b. 1890).
11 September – Augustus Dunbier, American painter (b. 1888).
23 September – John Nash, English painter, illustrator, and engraver (b. 1893).
20 October – Marie-Thérèse Walter, mistress of Pablo Picasso (b. 1909).
4 November – Keith Vaughan, English painter (b. 1912) (suicide).
5 November – René Goscinny, French comic book author, editor and humorist (b. 1926).
21 December – Seán Keating, Irish romantic-realist painter (b. 1889).
Philip Lindsey Clark, English sculptor (b. 1889)
Pan Yuliang, Chinese-born painter (b. 1899)
Walter Pritchard, Scottish stained glass artist, muralist and sculptor (b. 1905)
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