Events from the year 1960 in art.
- 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
- 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)
