1948 in art

Events

March 9 – Eric Fischl, painter
April 14 – Berry Berenson, American model and photographer
July 7 – Alison Wilding, English sculptor and academic
September 20 – Adrian Piper, conceptual artist
October 2 – Donna Karan, American fashion designer
October 8 – Gottfried Helnwein, Austrian fine artist, photographer, installation and performance artist
November 1 – Bill Woodrow, British sculptor
November 18 – Ana Mendieta, performance artist (d. 1985)
December 18 – Mimmo Paladino, Italian sculptor, painter and printmaker
December 26 – Lin Onus, Scottish-Aboriginal Koori artist (d. 1996)
Full date unknown
- Jonathan Lasker, American painter
- Marilyn Minter, American painter and photographer
- Andrew Stevovich, Austrian-born American painter

January 8 – Kurt Schwitters, German painter, collagist and poet (b. 1887)
February 23 – Fidus, German illustrator, painter and publisher (b. 1868)
March 23 – Yevgeniy Abalakov, Soviet sculptor and mountaineer (b. 1907)
March 24 – Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (b. 1885)
July 21 – Arshile Gorky, Armenian American painter (b. 1904)
September 22 – Felicjan Kowarski, Polish painter and sculptor (b. 1885)
December 28 – Hakob Gyurjian, Armenian sculptor (b. 1890)
December 30 – George Ault, American Precisionist painter (b. 1891)
date unknown
- Shinzō Fukuhara, Japanese photographer (b. 1883)
- Hector Hyppolite, Haitian painter (b. 1894)