See also 2003 in art, 2005 in art, List of years in Art

Works

• Marco Evaristti creates Ice Cube Project by selecting and then painting an ice berg in the Arctic.

Exhibitions

• July 9 - July 11 - Toronto Street Festival and Outdoor Art Exhibition

Births

Deaths

• January 4 - Jeff Nuttall, painter and sculptor
• January 9 - Nissim Ezekiel, art critic
• February 7 - Norman Thelwell, cartoonist
• April 1 - Enrique Grau, painter and sculptor
• May 12 - Syd Hoff, cartoonist
• July 2 - John Cullen Murphy, cartoonist
• August 3 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographer
• August 8 - Leon Golub, artist
• August 25 - Don Ashton , film art director and designer
• October 13 - Ivor Wood, animator
• October 15 - Irv Novick, comic book artist
• November 13 - Harry Lampert, cartoonist and advertising artist
• November 19 - Trina Schart Hyman, illustrator
• December 9 - Sergey Voychenko, artist/designer
• December 16 - Agnes Martin, abstract painter
• December 17 - Tom Wesselmann, pop artist