Events from the year 1957 in art.
Exhibitions
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- January – Yves Klein – Proposte Monochrome, Epoca Blu ("Proposition Monochrome; Blue Epoch"), Gallery Apollinaire, Milan.
- January 27 – Frank Miller, American comic-book artist
- April 3 – Yves Chaland, French cartoonist (d. 1990)
- May 4 – John Akomfrah, Ghanaian-born British filmmaker
- July 31 – Martin Jennings, English figurative sculpture
- August 7 – Mark Bagley, American comic-book artist
- August 9 – Rick Leonardi, American comic-book illustrator
- August 28 – Ai Weiwei, Chinese installation artist
- October 16 – Jim Hodges, American installation artist
- November 18 – Ernst Billgren, Swedish sculptor
- November 26 – Félix González-Torres, Cuban artist (d. 1996)
- undated
- January 1 – Óscar Domínguez, Spanish painter (b. 1906)
- January 13? – Saishū Onoe, Japanese poet and calligrapher (b. 1876)
- January 17 – Jože Plečnik, Slovene architect (b. 1872)
- January 20 – John Minton, English painter and illustrator (suicide) (b. 1917)
- February 4 – Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican painter and caricaturist (b. 1904)
- February 11 – Gwen Raverat, English wood engraver (b. 1885)
- February 14 – Emanuel Hahn, German Canadian sculptor (b. 1881)
- March 16 – Constantin Brâncuși, Romanian-born sculptor (b. 1876)
- March 28 – Jack Butler Yeats, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1871)
- March 23 – Andrzej Wróblewski, Polish figurative painter (mountaineering accident) (b. 1927)
- May 14 – Marie Vassilieff, Russian-born painter (b. 1884)[4]
- May 18 – Bruce Rogers, American book designer and typographer (b. 1870)
- June 12 – Mario Urteaga Alvarado, Peruvian painter (b. 1875)
- July 7 – Kiyoshi Koishi, Japanese photographer (b. 1908)
- August 2 – Lasar Segall, Lithuanian-born Brazilian Jewish painter (b. 1891)
- August 15 – C. T. Loo, Chinese-born art dealer (b. 1880)
- August 19 – David Bomberg, English painter (b. 1890)
- September 13 – Adam Emory Albright, American painter of figures in landscapes (b. 1862)
- September 26 – Pompeo Coppini, Italian American sculptor (b. 1870)
- October 11 – René Auberjonois, Swiss Post-Impressionist painter (b. 1872)
- October 15 – Henry van de Velde, Belgian-born painter, architect and designer, a founder of the Art Nouveau movement (b. 1863)
- October 24 – Christian Dior, French fashion designer (b. 1905)
- November 2 – Mahonri Young, American sculptor (d. 1877)
- November 20 – Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-born graphic artist (b. 1875)
- November 24 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886)
- November 30 – Paja Jovanović, a leading Serbian Realist painter (along with Đorđe Krstić and Uroš Predić) (b. 1859)
- December 14 – Josef Lada, Czech illustrator and painter (b. 1887)
- December 15 – Heinrich Hoffmann, German propaganda photographer (b. 1885)
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References
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