Wolf Prize in Arts

Template:Short description The Wolf Prize in Arts is awarded annually by the not-for-profit Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation, and has been awarded since 1981; the others are in Agriculture, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine and Physics, awarded since 1978. The Prize rotates annually among painting, music, architecture and sculpture.

Laureates

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Year	Field	Laureate(s)	Country
1981	Painting	Marc Chagall Antoni Tàpies	Template:Flag / Template:FRA Template:ESP
1982	Music	Vladimir Horowitz Olivier Messiaen Josef Tal	Template:Flag / Template:USA Template:FRA Template:ISR
1983/4	Architecture	Ralph Erskine	Template:GBR / Template:SWE
1984/5	Sculpture	Eduardo Chillida	Template:ESP
1986	Painting	Jasper Johns	Template:USA
1987	Music	Isaac Stern Krzysztof Penderecki	Template:USA Template:POL
1988	Architecture	Fumihiko Maki Giancarlo De Carlo	Template:JPN Template:ITA
1989	Sculpture	Claes Oldenburg	Template:SWE / Template:USA
1990	Painting	Anselm Kiefer	Template:GER
1991	Music	Yehudi Menuhin Luciano Berio	Template:USA / Template:GBR Template:ITA
1992	Architecture	Frank Gehry Jørn Utzon Denys Lasdun	Template:CAN / Template:USA Template:DEN Template:GBR
1993	Sculpture	Bruce Nauman	Template:USA
1994/5	Painting	Gerhard Richter	Template:GER
1995/6	Music	Zubin Mehta György Ligeti	Template:IND Template:AUT Template:HUN
1996/7	Architecture	Frei Otto Aldo van Eyck	Template:GER Template:NED
1998	Sculpture	James Turrell	Template:USA
1999	Painting	Not awarded
2000	Music	Pierre Boulez Riccardo Muti	Template:FRA Template:ITA
2001	Architecture	Álvaro Siza	Template:POR
2002/3	Painting	Louise Bourgeois	Template:FRA / Template:USA
2004	Music	Mstislav Rostropovich Daniel Barenboim	Template:RUS Template:ARG / Template:ISR
2005	Architecture	Jean Nouvel	Template:FRA
2006/7	Painting	Michelangelo Pistoletto	Template:ITA
2008	Music	Giya Kancheli Claudio Abbado	Template:GEO Template:ITA
2010	Architecture	David Chipperfield Peter Eisenman	Template:GBR Template:USA
2011	Painting	Rosemarie Trockel	Template:GER
2012	Music	Plácido Domingo Simon Rattle	Template:ESP Template:GBR
2013	Architecture	Eduardo Souto de Moura	Template:POR
2014	Sculpture	Olafur Eliasson	Template:DEN
2015	Music	Jessye Norman Murray Perahia	Template:USA Template:USA
2016	Architecture	Phyllis Lambert	Template:CAN
2017	Painting / Sculpture	Laurie Anderson Lawrence Weiner	Template:USA Template:USA
2018	Music	Paul McCartney Ádám Fischer	Template:GBR Template:HUN
2019	Architecture	Moshe Safdie	Template:ISR
2020	Painting / Sculpture	Cindy Sherman	Template:USA
2021	Music	Stevie Wonder Olga Neuwirth	Template:USA Template:AUT
2022	Architecture	Elizabeth Diller Momoyo Kaijima Yoshiharu Tsukamoto	Template:USA Template:JAP Template:JAP
2023	Sculpture	Fujiko Nakaya Richard Long	Template:JAP Template:GBR
2024	Music	György Kurtág	Template:ROM / Template:HUN
2025	Architecture	Xu Tiantian	Template:CHN

Laureates per country

Below is a chart of all laureates per country (updated to 2025 laureates). Some laureates are counted more than once if they have multiple citizenships.

Country	Number of laureates
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Notes and references

• Wolf Prizes 2015
• Wolf Prizes 2016
• Wolf Prizes 2018
• Wolf Prize 2020
• Wolf Prize 2025