Events from the year 1930 in art.

• June–July – Christopher Wood paints in Brittany.
• 29 November – Première of the Surrealist film L'Age d'Or by Luis Buñuel (co-written with Salvador Dalí) at Studio 28 in Paris.
• Theo van Doesburg produces a "Manifesto of Concrete art".^[1]
• Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant complete the decoration of the dining room for Dorothy Wellesley at Penns-in-the-Rocks, Withyham, England.
• Malvina Hoffman begins sculpting life-size figures for the Field Museum's Hall of Man.
• Great Bardfield Artists community established in England.
• Bernard Berenson publishes The Italian Painters of the Renaissance.
• Milt Gross publishes his wordless novel He Done Her Wrong in the United States.
• Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings begins.
• Spanish postage stamps depict Goya's La maja desnuda.
• Approximate date – Gertrud Arndt begins a series of photographic self-portraits at the Bauhaus.

• Archibald Prize: W. B. McInnes – Drum-Major Harry McClelland

• April – Cercle et Carré exhibition opens at Galerie 23 in the Rue La Boétie, Paris.

• Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious – Mural in refectory of Morley College, London (begun 1928; destroyed in The Blitz 1940)
• Pierre Bonnard – Pots
• Patrick Henry Bruce – Peinture (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
• Edward Burra – The Snack Bar
• John Steuart Curry – Hogs Killing a Snake
• Theo van Doesburg – Arithmetic Composition
• Raoul Dufy – Pink Nude
• M. C. Escher
  • The Bridge (lithograph)
  • Castrovalva (lithograph)
  • Palizzi, Calabria (woodcut)
  • Pentedattilo, Calabria (lithograph)
  • Street in Scanno, Abruzzi (lithograph)
• Thomas Cooper Gotch – The Exile: Heavy Is The Price I Paid For Love
• James Guthrie – Statesmen of World War I
• Edward Hopper – Early Sunday Morning
• Augustus John – Portrait of Tallulah Bankhead
• Rozsa Klein (Rogi André) – Bonnard's Palette
• Helmut Kolle
  • Self-Portrait in Hunting Attire
  • Young Man with a Colored Scarf
• Abel Lafleur – Victory^{[broken anchor]} (trophy)
• Fernand Léger – Mona Lisa with Keys
• L. S. Lowry – Coming from the Mill
• Jeanne Mammen – Free Room
• Henri Matisse – The Back Series (bas-reliefs)
• Alice Neel – Ethel Ashton (nude portrait)
• José Clemente Orozco – Prometheus (fresco at Pomona College, California)
• Charles Sheeler – American Landscape
• T. F. Šimon – View in Old Prague (woodcut)
• Grace Cossington Smith – The Bridge in Curve
• Herbert Tyson Smith – bronze reliefs for Liverpool Cenotaph
• Sophie Taeuber-Arp – Composition of Circles and Overlapping Angles
• Edward Trumbull – Transport and Human Endeavor (ceiling mural, lobby, Chrysler Building, New York City)^[2]
• Suzanne Valadon – Nude Woman with a Blue Shawl
• Christopher Wood
  • Anemones in a Cornish Window
  • Zebra and Parachute
• Grant Wood
  • American Gothic
  • Stone City, Iowa
• W. L. Wyllie – Panorama of the Battle of Trafalgar (Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth)^[3]
• Xu Beihong – A Portrait of Sun Duoci
• Statler Fountain

• 15 January – Paul Ahyi, Togolese artist and sculptor (d. 2010)
• 26 January – Napoleon Abueva, Filipino sculptor (d. 2018)^[4]
• 3 February – Gillian Ayres, English abstract painter (d. 2018)
• 10 February – Eva Frankfurther, German-born portrait painter (suicide 1959)
• 13 February – Ernst Fuchs, Austrian artist (d. 2015)^[5]
• 18 February – Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist (d. 2019)
• 21 February – Enrique Tábara, Ecuadorian painter (d. 2021)
• 24 February – Anita Steckel, American feminist artist (d. 2012)
• 25 February – Wendy Beckett, English contemplative nun and art historian (d. 2018)
• 7 March – Antony Armstrong-Jones, English photographer (d. 2017)^[6]
• 8 March – Hector Lombana, Colombian sculptor, painter and architect (d. 2008)
• 11 March – David Gentleman, English graphic designer
• 27 March – Daniel Spoerri, Romanian-Swiss artist and writer^[7]
• 30 March – Rolf Harris, Australian entertainer, painter and child sexual abuser (d. 2023)^[8]
• 31 March – Susan Weil, American painter^[9]
• 1 April – John Houston, Scottish painter (d. 2008)
• 12 April – Manuel Neri, American sculptor, painter and printmaker (d. 2021)
• 14 May – James Beck, American art historian (d. 2007)
• 15 May – Jasper Johns, American painter, sculptor and printmaker^[10]
• 22 May – Marisol Escobar, French-born sculptor and printmaker (d.2016)
• 23 May
  • Richard Anuszkiewicz, American painter, sculptor and printmaker (d. 2020)
  • Aslan, French-born pin-up artist (d.2014)
• 24 May – Unity Spencer, English artist (d. 2017)
• 30 May – Robert Ryman, American monochrome painter (d. 2019)
• 5 June – Vladimir Popov, Soviet animator, animation and art director (d. 1987)
• 15 June – Ikuo Hirayama, Japanese painter (d. 2009)
• 16 June – Allan D'Arcangelo, American painter and graphic artist (d. 1998)
• 19 June – Bryan Kneale, Manx sculptor and academic
• 20 June – Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor (d. 2017)^[11]
• 24 June
  • Pierre Restany, French art critic and cultural philosopher (d. 2003)
  • Flip Schulke, American photojournalist (d. 2008)

• 4 July – Mohamed Demagh, Algerian sculptor (d. 2018)
• 4 August - Astrid Zydower, German-born British sculptor (d. 2005)^[12]
• 5 September – Ibrahim El-Salahi, Sudanese painter
• 24 September – Bernard Nevill, English textile designer and art collector (d. 2019)^[13]
• 28 September – Nikolai Pozdneev, Russian painter (d. 1978)
• 3 October – Robyn Denny, British abstract artist (d. 2014)
• 7 October – Kurt Dornis, German painter, graphic artist and draughtsman
• 8 October – Faith Ringgold, African American painter and fabric artist
• 18 October – Trevor Bell, English painter (d. 2017)
• 29 October – Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor, painter and film maker (d. 2002)^[14]
• 7 November – Robert Natkin, American painter (d. 2010)
• 13 November – Benny Andrews, American painter and academic (d. 2006)
• 14 November – Elisabeth Frink, English sculptor (d. 1993)
• 31 December – Luis Marsans, Catalan painter (d. 2015)

• January 7 – Max Schmalzl, German religious painter and illustrator (b. 1850)
• March 3 – W. W. Quatremain, English landscape painter (b. 1857)
• March 19 – Andreas Walser, Swiss painter (b. 1908)
• March 24 – Eugeen Van Mieghem, Belgian painter (b. 1875)^[15]
• April 17 – Aleksandr Golovin, Russian stage designer (b. 1863)
• April 30 – John Russell, Australian Impressionist painter (b. 1858)
• May 10 – Julio Romero de Torres, Spanish painter (b. 1874)
• May 28 – George Washington Lambert, Australian portrait painter and war artist (b. 1873)
• June 3 – Alexander Bogomazov, Ukrainian painter and modern art theoretician of Russian avant-garde (b. 1880)
• June 5
  • Sophie Holten, Danish painter (b. 1858)^[16][17]
  • Jules Pascin, Bulgarian-born painter and draftsman (b. 1885)^[18]
• July 22 – Wacław Szymanowski, Polish sculptor and painter (b. 1859)
• August 21 – Christopher Wood, English painter (b. 1901) (suicide)
• August 28 – Stanisław Bergman, Polish painter (b. 1862)
• September 6 – Sir James Guthrie, Scottish painter (b. 1859)
• September 24 – Otto Mueller, German Expressionist painter (b. 1874)
• September 25 – Abram Arkhipov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
• September 29 – Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)
• December 9 – Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian Impressionist painter (b. 1860)^[19]
• December 17 – Nikolay Kasatkin, Russian painter (b. 1859)
• December 28 – Antonio Mancini, Italian painter (b. 1852)
• date unknown – Peter Moog, outsider artist (b. 1871)

• 1930 in fine arts of the Soviet Union