Editing 1946 in art (section)

==Births==
* [[January 8]] – [[Betty Beaumont]], Canadian American site-specific artist, all media
* [[January 10]] – [[Kalidas Karmakar]], Bangladeshi artist (d. 2019)
* [[January 18]] – [[Kirk Varnedoe]], [[Americans|American]] [[Art history|art historian]], writer and curator (d. [[2003 in art|2003]])
* [[January 26]] – [[Timothy Clifford]], [[English people|English]] art historian and curator
* [[February 9]] – [[Peter Linde]], Swedish sculptor
* [[April 11]] – [[Chris Burden]], American performance and installation artist and sculptor (d. [[2015 in art|2015]])
* [[April 27]] – [[Nicholas Serota]], English curator
* [[May 30]] – [[Jan de Bie]], painter and photographer (d. [[2021 in art|2021]])
* [[June 29]] – [[Egon von Fürstenberg]], [[Switzerland|Swiss]] [[fashion design]]er (d. [[2004 in art|2004]])
* [[July 6]] – [[Jamie Wyeth]], American realist [[Painting|painter]]
* [[July 11]] – [[Chris Killip]], Manx-born documentary photographer (d. [[2020 in art|2020]])
* [[July 25]] – [[Nicole Farhi]], French sculptor and [[fashion design]]er
* [[September 27]] – [[T. C. Cannon]], Native American painter (d. [[1978 in art|1978]])
* [[November 4]] – [[Robert Mapplethorpe]], American [[photographer]] (d. [[1989 in art|1989]])
* [[November 5]] – [[Herman Brood]], [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[musician]], painter and [[News media|media]] personality (d. [[2001 in art|2001]])
* [[November 20]] – [[Alice Aycock]], American sculptor and installation artist
* [[December 2]] – [[Gianni Versace]], [[Italians|Italian]] fashion designer (k. [[1997 in art|1997]])
* [[December 8]] – [[Jacques Bourboulon]], French nude and fashion photographer
* [[December 12]] – [[Don Gummer]], American sculptor
* [[December 25]] – [[Christopher Frayling]], English cultural historian