10 December – Musée d'art moderne (Saint-Étienne) opens as a separate institution.
22 July – Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali is shot in London; he dies 28 August.
Archibald Prize – William Robinson, Equestrian self-portrait
Turner Prize – Richard Deacon
Shortlisted were: Patrick Caulfield, Helen Chadwick, Richard Long, Declan McGonagle and Thérèse Oulton.
Wayne Chabre – John von Neumann (gargoyle, Eugene, Oregon)
Martin Creed – Work No. 1
Andres Serrano – Piss Christ (photograph)
Frank Stella – Decanter (sculpture, Houston, Texas)
Ernest Zobole – House Interior in Landscape
1 August – CJ de Silva, Filipino art director, painter, graphic designer and illustrator
Xyza Cruz Bacani, Filipina street photographer
14 February – Else Halling, Norwegian tapestry weaver (b. 1899)
18 February – William Coldstream, English realist painter (b. 1908)
22 February – Andy Warhol, American artist, director and writer (b. 1928)
26 March – Georg Muche, German painter (b. 1895)
19 April – Milt Kahl, American animator (b. 1909)
30 July - Michel Tapié, French artist, critic, curator, and art collector (b. 1909)
29 August – Naji al-Ali, Palestinian cartoonist (b. c1938)
25 September - Harry Holtzman, American artist (b. 1912).
4 October – Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (b. 1947).
27 October – Jean Hélion, French painter (b. 1904)
28 October – André Masson, French artist (b. 1896)
4 November – Raphael Soyer Russian-born American painter, (b. 1899).
15 November – Ernő Goldfinger, Hungarian-born architect and furniture designer (b. 1902).
2 December – Robert Filliou, French Fluxus artist (b. 1926)
18 December - Dimitrije Bašičević, Serbian painter and sculptor (b. 1921)
Roland Ansieau, French Art Deco graphic artist (b. 1901).
Raymond Moore, English landscape photographer (b. 1920).
Myron Stout, American abstract painter (b. 1908).
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