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50 Art Prizes calling in June 2026
Published 20 days ago • 8 min read
June 2026
Awards & Exhibitions
Adrian Jangala Robertson
2026 Quadruple Finalist Achievement
Finalist in four of Australia’s major art prizes in 2026 –
Archibald Prize,
Wynne Prize,
Sir John Sulman Prize, and the
Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA).
He was also a triple finalist in the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes in 2024.
AWARDS
2022
Winner of the Alice Prize, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT
2020
General Painting Award, Telstra NATSIAA MAGNT, Darwin, NT
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards finalist exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory, Darwin
2026
Archibald Prize finalist exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2026
Sir John Sulman Prize finalist exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2026
Wynne Prize finalist exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2025
Mosman Art Prize finalist exhibition, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
2025
Archibald Prize finalist exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2024
Sir John Sulman Prize finalist exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2024
Wynne Prize finalist exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2024
Archibald Prize finalist exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2024
Alice Prize finalist exhibition, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT
2022
Hadley’s Art Prize finalist exhibition, Hadley’s Orient Hotel, TAS
2022
Sulman Prize finalist exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2022
Alice Prize finalist exhibition, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT
2021
Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards finalist exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory, Darwin
2020
Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards finalist exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, NT
2018
Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards finalist exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
2004
Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, finalists exhibition
2026 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman finalist overlaps. Finalist-exhibition comparisons cover 2024 to present in this export.
15.4%
Big-three finalists with a 2022-2025 win
6.4%
Other 2026 finalists with a 2022-2025 win
2.4x
Big-three finalists are 2.4x more likely to have a recent win
Based on our Artbiogs finalist and prize-result data from the past three years, 2026 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman finalists appear to show stronger recent prize momentum than other finalists in the dataset. In this export, 15.4% of Big-three finalists had recorded a prize win between 2022 and 2025, compared with 6.4% of other 2026 finalists. This does not predict who will win, but it does suggest that artists with recent prize success are more heavily represented across the 2026 AGNSW Big-three finalist lists.
We have indexed 34 prizes to date and as a result we can show the artists who have been most popular with the judges in 2026
ART-PRIZES 2026 DATA SNAPSHOT
Top Multi-Finalists
Artists appearing as finalists in four or more prizes
13
Artists
Ranked by finalist appearances. Prize badges show where each artist appeared.
Artist
Prizes
Appearances
Lori Pensini
Abbotsleigh Grace Cossington Smith Art AwardCity of Rockingham Art PrizeGallipoli Art PrizeLethbridge Landscape PrizeMuswellbrook Art PrizeOmnia Art PrizePercival Portrait Award
7
Amanda Western
Glover PrizeJohn Villiers Outback Art PrizeLethbridge Landscape PrizeMuswellbrook Art PrizeOmnia Art PrizeRavenswood Australian Women's Art PrizeWyndham Art Prize
7
Adriane Strampp
Bayside Painting PrizeLethbridge Landscape PrizeMuswellbrook Art PrizeOmnia Art PrizeRavenswood Australian Women's Art PrizeSt Columba's Art Prize
6
Lucy Roleff
Abbotsleigh Grace Cossington Smith Art AwardBayside Painting PrizeGlover PrizeMuswellbrook Art PrizeOmnia Art Prize
5
William Versace
Darebin Art PrizeGlover PrizeOmnia Art PrizeRemagine Art PrizeWaterhouse Natural Science Art Prize
5
Martin King
Bayside Painting PrizeNational Works on Paper PrizeOmnia Art PrizeSt Columba's Art Prize
4
Paul White
Adelaide Perry Prize for DrawingGlover PrizeNational Works on Paper PrizeOmnia Art Prize
4
Tamara Dean
Abbotsleigh Grace Cossington Smith Art AwardBlake PrizeFleurieu Biennale Art PrizeRavenswood Australian Women's Art Prize
4
Kevin Chin
Bayside Painting PrizeMuswellbrook Art PrizeOmnia Art PrizeWyndham Art Prize
4
Donovan Christie
Abbotsleigh Grace Cossington Smith Art AwardFleurieu Biennale Art PrizeHarden Art PrizeWynne Prize
4
Nat Ward
Fleurieu Biennale Art PrizeHarden Art PrizeOmnia Art PrizeRavenswood Australian Women's Art Prize
4
Kate Vassallo
Abbotsleigh Grace Cossington Smith Art AwardAdelaide Perry Prize for DrawingBayside Painting PrizeOmnia Art Prize
4
Adrian Jangala Robertson
Archibald PrizeSir John Sulman PrizeTelstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art AwardWynne Prize
Whenever I visit an exhibition, I simply scan an artwork label and instantly receive a concise profile of the artist, including many of their previous art prize appearances and achievements.
The name Surfaced comes from the idea that the Australian art prize landscape is a vast sea of information. Rather than trying to catalogue everything, the app “surfaces” artists who have been recorded as finalists in at least one Australian art prize during the past five years.
The database currently contains more than 36,000 finalist records spanning the last decade and covering over 13,400 artists. Those numbers continue to grow as new prizes and exhibitions are added.
A typical artist profile includes links to the artist’s Instagram account, the number of prize exhibitions they have appeared in, prizes won, and a detailed history of finalist exhibitions.
What makes the app particularly useful is that many highly active and successful art prize artists rarely appear in major public gallery collections. Artbiogs: Surfaced helps curators, students, collectors, and art enthusiasts discover artists who might otherwise remain under the radar.
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