The year 2007 in art involved some significant events and new works.
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- Sanford Biggers - Blossom[11]
- Ed Dwight – Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (sculpture, Houston, Texas)
- Russ Faxon – Statue of John Stith Pemberton (sculpture, Atlanta)
- Valerie Hegarty - Fallen Bierstadt (after A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie by Albert Bierstadt)[12]
- David Hockney – Bigger Trees Near Warter
- Zhang Huan - Three Legged Buddha (sculpture)[13]
- Maya Lin - Above and Below (sculpture, Indianapolis Museum of Art)
- John Ney Michel and Christopher Liberatos – Statue of William Moultrie (sculpture, Charleston, South Carolina)
- Stephen Kettle – Statue of Alan Turing (sculpture in slate, Bletchley Park, England)
- Jo Ractliffe – Roadside stall on the way to Viana (photograph)
- Ian Rank-Broadley – The Stretcher Bearers and The Gates (bronzes, Armed Forces Memorial, Staffordshire, England)
- Neo Rauch
- Allison Saar – "Swing Low" – Harriet Tubman Memorial (Harriet Tubman Plaza, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City)[14]
- Doris Salcedo – Shibboleth (installation at Tate Modern, London)
- Luke Sullivan – The Fourth Secret of Fatima (sculpture)[15][16][17]
- James Turrell – Dividing the Light (installation at Pomona College, Claremont, California, United States)
January to March
- 8 January – Iwao Takamoto, Japanese American animator, television producer and film director (b.1925).
- 11 January – Bryan Pearce, English naïve painter (b.1929).
- 20 January – Dan Christensen, American abstract painter (b.1942).
- 4 February – Jules Olitski, American abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor (b.1922).
- 6 February – Heinz Berggruen, German art collector
- 14 February – Emmett Williams, American poet and Fluxus artist (b.1925).
- 22 February
- 2 March – Madi Phala, South African artist (b.1955).
- 6 March – Jean Baudrillard, French cultural theorist, sociologist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer (b.1929).
- 16 March – Raymond Nasher, American art collector (b.1921).
April to June
- 7 April – Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (b.1931).
- 8 April – Sol LeWitt, American conceptual and minimalist artist (b.1928).
- 10 April – Salvatore Scarpitta, American sculptor (b.1919).
- 15 April – Brant Parker, American cartoonist (b.1920).
- 17 April – Kitty Carlisle Hart, American singer, actress, and New York State Council on the Arts member (b.1910).
- 3 May – Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist and illustrator (b.1913).
- 26 May – James Beck, American art historian (b.1930).
- 28 May – Jörg Immendorff, German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor (b.1945; ALS).[19]
- 2 June – Jerry Wilkerson, American painter (b.1943).
- 17 June – Gianfranco Ferré, Italian fashion designer (b.1944).
- 22 June – Bernd Becher, German photographer (b.1931).
- 26 June – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer and entrepreneur (b.1929).
July to September
- 7 July – John Szarkowski, American photographer, curator, historian, and critic (b.1925).
- 17 July – Jeremy Blake, American digital artist and painter (b.1971).
- 22 July – Aleksandr Tatarskiy, Russian animator, artist, and film director (b.1950).
- 9 August – Joe O'Donnell, American photographer (b.1922).
- 11 August – Maurice Boitel, French painter (b.1919).
- 12 August
- 17 August – Edward Avedisian, American abstract painter (b.1936).
- 24 September – Lenore Tawney, American fiber artist (b.1907).
- 25 September – André Emmerich, American gallerist.
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