This List of Australian art awards covers the main art awards given by organisations based in Australia. Most are for Australian art but some are open to artists from elsewhere.
Award | Sponsor | Notes |
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Archibald Prize | Art Gallery of New South Wales | First major prize for portraiture in Australian art |
Australian Photographic Portrait Prize | Art Gallery of New South Wales | Discontinued in 2007 |
Bald Archy Prize | Museum of the Riverina, Wagga Wagga | Parody of the Archibald Prize |
Blake Prize | Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre | Focus on spiritual arts |
Bowness Photography Prize | Monash Gallery of Art | |
Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship | Art Gallery of New South Wales | Includes three-month residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris |
the churchie emerging art prize | Institute of Modern Art | Since 1987; formerly at Griffith University Art Gallery (now Museum) |
Clemenger Contemporary Art Award | Art Gallery of New South Wales | no longer awarded |
Cornell Prize | Cornell family | South Australia, from 1951 to 1965 |
Dobell Prize | Art Gallery of New South Wales | No longer awarded |
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize | Doug Moran | Annual Australian portrait prize |
Fleurieu Art Prize | South Australia wineries | Named for the Fleurieu Peninsula |
Fremantle Print Award | Little Creatures Brewery | |
Glover Prize | John Glover Society | For paintings of the landscape of Tasmania |
Gold Coast Art Prize | Gold Coast City Art Gallery | |
Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award | Helen Lempriere Bequest | Defunct since 2009 |
Helena Rubinstein Portrait Prize | Helena Rubinstein Foundation) | no longer awarded |
Helpmann Awards | Live Performance Australia | For live entertainment and performing arts |
John Fries Award | Copyright Agency | Emerging visual artists |
Kennedy Prize [1] | Kennedy Arts Foundation | Annual Australian arts award of $25,000 |
The Kilgour Prize [2] | Newcastle Art Gallery [3] | $50,000 figurative and portrait art competition |
The Ledger Awards | Named after pioneering Australian cartoonist Peter Ledger (1945–1994) | |
Mandorla Art Award | New Norcia Monastery Museum and Art Gallery | Christian art |
John McCaughey Prize | National Gallery of Victoria Art Gallery of New South Wales | 1957– |
Melrose Prize | South Australian Society of Arts | Prize for portraiture instituted in 1921 |
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Works on Paper Award | Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery | Contemporary art made on, or with, paper |
Mosman Art Prize | Mosman Town Council | |
Muswellbrook Art Prize | Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre | |
National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award | Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory | |
National Capital Art Prize | ACT | Prizes in four categories: Open, First Nations, Landscape and Student [4] |
National New Media Art Award | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane | |
National Photographic Portrait Prize | National Portrait Gallery (Canberra) | |
Portia Geach Memorial Award | The Trust Company, Perpetual | Prize for Australian female portraitists |
Ramsay Art Prize | Art Gallery of South Australia | $100,000 prize for contemporary artists under 40 years old |
Ranamok Glass Prize | Andy Plummer and Maureen Cahill | Defunct from 2015 |
Salon des Refusés (Archibald) | S.H. Ervin Gallery | Rejected submissions to the Archibald Prize |
Sculpture by the Sea | Sculpture by the Sea | |
Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards | Sidney Myer Fund | |
Sir John Sulman Prize | Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
Solar art prize | Royal Society of the Arts, South Australia | Climate change themes |
South Australian Ruby Awards | Government of South Australia | Named for Dame Ruby Litchfield |
Stanley Award | Australian Cartoonists' Association | Annual comics award |
Stencil Art Prize | Marrickville Council etc. | Includes international stencil artists |
Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize | South Australian Museum | For art with a science theme |
Wynne Prize | Art Gallery of New South Wales | Landscape painting or figure sculpture art prize |
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