| 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 |
1993-2009 (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 |
|
| Gallipoli Art Prize[1]
|
Gallipoli Memorial Club
|
Acquisitive art prize commemorating the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War, awarded annually.
|
| 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
|
| Impact Awards
|
Performing Arts Connections Australia
|
Presenter/venue & Producer Awards (Performing Arts)
|
| John Fries Award |
Copyright Agency |
Emerging visual artists
|
| Kennedy Prize[2]
|
Kennedy Arts Foundation
|
Annual Australian arts award of $25,000
|
| Kilgour Prize[3]
|
Newcastle Art Gallery[4]
|
$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[5]
|
| 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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