Events from the year 1948 in art.
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- Summer – The art exhibitions at the Venice Biennale are revived, introducing American abstract expressionism to Europe and part of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection to Venice.
- November 8 – COBRA (avant-garde movement) is formed by Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn and Joseph Noiret.
- Georges Braque begins work on his Ateliers.
- The Colony Room Club, a private members' drinking club at 41 Dean Street, Soho, London, is founded and presided over by Muriel Belcher; painter Francis Bacon becomes a member the day after it opens, establishing it as a centre for London's alcoholic artistic elite.[1]
- Cadillac introduce the car tailfin, to Frank Hershey's design authorized by Harley Earl.
- January 24 – Machiko Satonaka, Japanese manga artist
- March 9 – Eric Fischl, American painter
- March 14 – James Nachtwey, American photojournalist
- April 14 – Berry Berenson, American model and photographer (d. 2001)
- June 30 – Wolf Erlbruch, German children's book illustrator and writer
- July 7 – Alison Wilding, English sculptor and academic
- September 20 – Adrian Piper, American 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, Cuban American 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
- January 8 – Kurt Schwitters, German painter, collagist and poet (b. 1887)
- January 21 – Ambrosia Tønnesen, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1859)
- 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)
- August – Feliu Elias, Spanish caricaturist and painter (b. 1878)
- September 9 – Ignacy Pieńkowski, Polish painter (b. 1877)
- September 22 – Felicjan Kowarski, Polish painter and sculptor (b. 1885)
- October 17 – Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (b. 1869)
- November 4 – Shinzō Fukuhara, Japanese photographer (b. 1883)
- December 28 – Hakob Gyurjian, Armenian sculptor (b. 1890)
- December 30 – George Ault, American Precisionist painter (b. 1891)
- Date unknown – Hector Hyppolite, Haitian painter (b. 1894)