The purpose of this study was to synthesize the results of a group art therapy program for reducing depression in children by meta-analysis. To do this, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of theses and journal articles published in Korea from 2000 to 2015, which had depression as a subordinate variable and art therapy as an intervention method. A total of 1,302 papers were initially searched. A total of 43 papers were then analyzed to identify research trends, and 14 papers were analyzed for the meta-analysis. The results of this study were as follows. First, research on art therapy for depression in children began in 2000, but until 2005, it was studied in only one or two cases or not studied at all. However, it has been steadily studied through 2015 after surging to five studies in 2006. The characteristics of the research subjects were as follows: The study subjects had the highest percentage of articles about research on children in the upper grades of elementary school (42%), and no researchers studied the infants. Second, the overall average effect size of the analysis paper of this study was -1.7843, and the effect of group art therapy on children s depression was significant. Third, the effect size of the control variables showed statistically significant differences according to the ages of the study subjects, indicating that the effect of the group art therapy on the senior students was significant.