1983 in art

• Galería OMR commercial contemporary art gallery founded in Mexico City.
• High Museum of Art, designed by Richard Meier, opened in Atlanta, Georgia.
• Australian painter Sidney Nolan settles in Britain at Rodd Court in Herefordshire on the Welsh border near Presteigne.{{cite web|url=http://www.sidneynolantrust.org/about/our-history|title=Sidney Nolan Trust|date=2021-04-18}}

• Archibald Prize: Nigel Thomson – Chandler Coventry

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• Richard Beyer's Charles Frederic Swigert Jr. Memorial Fountain installed in Oregon Zoo, Portland.
• Completion of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude environmental artwork, Surrounded Islands, involving eleven islands in Biscayne Bay off Miami being surrounded by 6,500,000 square feet (600,000 m²) of pink fabric.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/retrospective/archives-christo-surrounds-islands-miamis-biscayne-bay-fabric-1984-11464/|title=From the Archives: Christo Surrounds Islands in Miami's Biscayne Bay in Fabric, in 1984|date=7 December 2018}}
• Lucian Freud - Large Interior W11 (After Watteau){{cite web | url=https://www.thestranger.com/visual-art/2019/09/03/41280195/currently-hanging-lucian-freuds-large-interior-w11-after-watteau-at-seattle-art-museum#:~:text=British%20painter%20Lucian%20Freud%27s%20%22Large,Keeffe)%20over%20the%20next%20year%3C | title=Currently Hanging: Lucian Freud's "Large Interior, W11 (After Watteau)" at Seattle Art Museum | date=25 July 2019 }}
• Completion of Richard Hamilton's diptych [http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hamilton-the-citizen-t03980 The Citizen].
• Cast of John Seward Johnson II's painted bronze Allow Me installed in Portland, Oregon.
• Marta Minujin - The Parthenon of Books.{{cite web | url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/minujin-the-parthenon-of-books-t14343 | title='The Parthenon of Books', Marta Minujín, 1983 }}{{Cite web |date=2020-01-20 |title=Marta Minujín's The Parthenon of Books: A Living Elevation of Social and Cultural Relations {{!}} |url=https://flash---art.com/article/marta-minujins-the-parthenon-of-books-a-living-elevation-of-social-and-cultural-relations/ |access-date=2024-08-21 |website=Flash Art |language=en-US}}
• Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle's kinetic artwork, the Stravinsky Fountain near the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

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• Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al Thani, Qatari chairperson of the Qatar Museums Authority
• Jérémie Iordanoff, French abstract artist
• Milo Moiré, Swiss performance artist

• 24 February – Roy Krenkel, American illustrator (b.1918).
• 3 March – Hergé, Belgian comics writer and artist (b.1907).{{Cite web|url=http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2007/how-did-herge-die/|title=How did Hergé die? - Forbidden Planet Blog|date=2007-05-23|language=en-US|access-date=2016-09-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915133705/http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2007/how-did-herge-die/|archive-date=2016-09-15|url-status=dead}}
• 21 May – Kenneth Clark, English author, museum director, broadcaster and art historians (b.1903).
• 11 May – Ernst Thoms, German painter (b. 1896).
• 8 June – Rachel Baes, Belgian painter (b.1912).
• 28 June – Dorothy Annan, English painter, potter, and muralist (b. 1900)

• 14 July – Philip Zec, British editorial cartoonist (b. 1909).
• 12 August – Franz Radziwill, German painter (b. 1895).
• 18 August – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British art historian (b.1902).
• 28 October – Otto Messmer, American animator (b.1892).
• 5 November – Jean-Marc Reiser, French comics creator (b.1941).
• 17 November – John Russell Harper, Canadian art historian (b.1914).
• 2 December – Aart van den IJssel, Dutch sculptor (b.1922).
• 20 December – Bill Brandt, German-born British photographer and photojournalist (b.1904).
• 23 December – Colin Middleton, Irish artist (b.1910).
• 25 December – Joan Miró, Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist (b.1893).{{Cite web|url=http://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/joan-miro-the-birth-of-the-world|title=MoMA {{!}} Joan Miró. The Birth of the World. Montroig, late summer–fall 1925|website=www.moma.org|access-date=2016-09-08}}

• Michael Cardew, English studio potter (b.1901).
• Bernard Lamotte, French illustrator, painter and muralist (b.1903).
• Edward Wesson, English watercolour artist (b.1910).

• 1982 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• 1983 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

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