1988 in art

List of years in art (table)
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Opening of the Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, designed by Steven Holl

19 March – Isabel Bishop, American painter and graphic artist (b.1902).
28 March – Neil Williams, American painter (b.1934).
31 March – Georges Lévis, French comic artist (b.1924).
3 April – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (b.1907).
17 April – Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American artist (b.1900).
16 May – Charles Keeping, English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer (b.1924).
16 June – Andrea Pazienza, Italian comics artist (b.1956).

12 July – Julian Trevelyan, English printmaker (b.1910).
12 August – Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist (b.1960).
29 September – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b.1912).
12 November – Primo Conti, Italian Futurist artist (b.1900).
25 November - Alphaeus Philemon Cole, American portrait artist (b. 1876 [sic.])
2 December – Kimon Evan Marengo, Egyptian-born British cartoonist (b.1904).
30 December – Isamu Noguchi, Japanese American artist and landscape architect (b.1904).
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- Reginald George Haggar, ceramic designer
- Chambré Hardman, Irish photographer (b.1898).