Events from the year 1960 in art.

• August 10 – The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art opens at Inverleith House in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.^[1]
• December – The Huysman Gallery is founded in Los Angeles.
• Launch of Nouveau réalisme movement.^[2]
• The Pace Gallery is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.

• Archibald Prize: Judy Cassab – Stanislaus Rapotec
• Prix de Rome (for painting) – Pierre Carron

• Bison (stone sculpture, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon)
• Salvador Dalí – The Ecumenical Council
• M. C. Escher – Ascending and Descending (lithograph)
• Alberto Giacometti – bronzes
  • Large Standing Woman I (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)
  • Monumental Head (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.)
• Barbara Hepworth
  • Archaeon
  • Figure for Landscape (bronze)
• Edward Hopper – Second Story Sunlight
• M. F. Husain – The Prancing Horse
• Alex Katz - Black Dress^[3]
• Yves Klein
  • Anthropometries of The Blue Epoch (performance art)
  • A Leap Into The Void
• Alberto Korda – Guerrillero Heroico (photograph of Che Guevara)
• Peter Lanyon – Thermal
• Rico Lebrun – Genesis^[4]
• Morris Louis – Unfurled paintings
• Piero Manzoni – Corpo d'aria (artist's multiple)
• William McMillan – Lion and Unicorn statues for Kensington Central Library, London
• Ivan Meštrović – Immigrant Mother (bronze)
• Pablo Picasso – Bust of a Seated Woman (Jacqueline Roque)
• Ceri Richards – Cathedrale Engloutie
• Will Roberts – Woman with Cup of Tea
• Norman Rockwell – Triple Self-Portrait
• Antoni Tapies - Cnvas Burned to Matter (circa)^[5]
• Jean Tinguely – Homage to New York (self-destroying sculpture)
• Andy Warhol – Campbell's Soup Cans
• Robert Whitman - American Moon (performance)^[6]

• February 21 – Isaac Julien, Black British installation artist and filmmaker
• March 13 – Joe Ranft, American magician, animation storyboard artist and voice actor (d. 2005)
• July 28 – Jon J Muth, American author and illustrator
• August 13 – Lorna Simpson, African American photographic and video artist
• September – Shaun Greenhalgh, English art forger
• September 21 – Maurizio Cattelan, Italian satirical sculptor
• October 2 – Joe Sacco, Maltese-born comics journalist
• December 22 – Jean-Michel Basquiat, American neo-expressionist painter (suicide 1988)
• December 26 – Andrew Graham Dixon, British art historian and broadcaster
• date unknown – Ken Currie, British figurative painter

• January 12 – William Adams Delano, American architect (b. 1874)
• January 16 – Rudulph Evans, American sculptor (b. 1878)
• February 8 – Hakuyō Fuchikami, Japanese photographer (b. 1889)
• February 22 – Paul-Émile Borduas, Canadian painter (b. 1905)
• March 3 – Nina Veselova, Russian painter (b. 1922)
• March 18 – Alexander V. Kuprin, Russian painter (b. 1880)
• March 26 – Francisco Goitia, Mexican realist painter (b. 1882)
• April 13 – Eric Kennington, English sculptor and war artist (b. 1888)
• May 8 – Hugo Alfvén, Swedish musician and painter (b. 1872)
• May 16 – Igor Grabar, Russian painter, publisher, and art historian (b. 1871)
• May 27 – James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator, poster artist (b. 1877)
• June 6 – Ernest L. Blumenschein, American painter, member of the Taos art colony (b. 1874)
• August 8 – Georg Mayer-Marton, Hungarian-British graphic artist (b. 1897)
• September 20 – David Park, American painter (b. 1911)
• October 22
  • Morgan Dennis, American painter and illustrator (b. 1892)
  • Alexander Matveyev, Russian sculptor (b. 1878)
  • Sreten Stojanović, Serbian sculptor (b. 1898)
• November 14 – Anne Bonnet, Belgian painter (b. 1908)
• November 17 – Gene Ahern, American comic-strip artist (b. 1895)
• November 29 – Fortunato Depero, Italian futurist painter, sculptor, and designer b. 1892)
• December 4 - Dean Cornwell - American illustrator, muralist, and painter (b. 1892)
• date unknown – Charles Pillet, French sculptor and engraver (b. 1869)

• 1960 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union