Events from the year 1980 in art.
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January to June
- January 9 – Joy Adamson, Austria-Kenyan painter and conservationist (b. 1908).[3]
- January 18 – Cecil Beaton, English photographer and stage and costume designer (b. 1904).
- January 20 – William Roberts, painter (b. 1904).
- January 26 – Dolly Rudeman, Dutch graphic designer (b. 1902).
- February 4 – Stojan Aralica, famous Serbian Impressionist painter and academic (b. 1883).
- February 6 – Albert Kotin, Russian-born American Abstract Expressionist artist (b. 1907).
- February 17 – Graham Sutherland, English artist (b. 1903).
- February 22 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist, poet and playwright (b. 1886).
- March 5 – John Skeaping, English sculptor and equine painter (b. 1901).
- March 18 – Tamara de Lempicka, Polish Art Deco painter (b. 1898).
- April 21
- May 15 – Len Lye, New Zealand-born American kinetic sculptor and filmmaker (b. 1901).
- May 16 – Izis Bidermanas, Lithuanian-born photographer (b. 1911).
- June 7 – Philip Guston, Canadian-born American Abstract Expressionist painter and printmaker (b. 1913).
- June 23 – Clyfford Still, American Abstract Expressionist painter (b. 1904).