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
Source:
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!Year !! Field !! Laureate(s) !! Country
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| 1981 || Painting || Marc Chagall <br> Antoni Tàpies || / <br>
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| 1982 || Music || Vladimir Horowitz <br> Olivier Messiaen <br> Josef Tal || / <br> <br>
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| 1983/4 || Architecture || Ralph Erskine || /
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| 1984/5 || Sculpture || Eduardo Chillida ||
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| 1986 || Painting || Jasper Johns ||
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| 1987 || Music || Isaac Stern <br> Krzysztof Penderecki || <br>
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| 1988 || Architecture || Fumihiko Maki <br> Giancarlo De Carlo || <br>
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| 1989 || Sculpture || Claes Oldenburg || /
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| 1990 || Painting || Anselm Kiefer ||
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| 1991 || Music || Yehudi Menuhin <br> Luciano Berio || / <br>
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| 1992 || Architecture || Frank Gehry <br> Jørn Utzon <br> Denys Lasdun || / <br> <br>
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| 1993 || Sculpture || Bruce Nauman ||
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| 1994/5 || Painting || Gerhard Richter ||
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| 1995/6 || Music || Zubin Mehta <br> György Ligeti || <br> <br>
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| 1996/7 || Architecture || Frei Otto <br> Aldo van Eyck || <br>
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| 1998 || Sculpture || James Turrell ||
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| 1999 || Painting || Not awarded ||
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| 2000 || Music || Pierre Boulez <br> Riccardo Muti || <br>
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| 2001 || Architecture || Álvaro Siza ||
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| 2002/3 || Painting || Louise Bourgeois || /
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| 2004 || Music || Mstislav Rostropovich <br> Daniel Barenboim || <br> / / /
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| 2005 || Architecture || Jean Nouvel ||
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| 2006/7 || Painting || Michelangelo Pistoletto ||
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| 2008 || Music || Giya Kancheli <br> Claudio Abbado || <br>
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| 2010 || Architecture || David Chipperfield <br> Peter Eisenman || <br>
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| 2011 || Painting || Rosemarie Trockel ||
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| 2012 || Music || Plácido Domingo <br> Simon Rattle || <br>
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| 2013 || Architecture || Eduardo Souto de Moura ||
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| 2014 || Sculpture || Olafur Eliasson ||
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| 2015 || Music || Jessye Norman <br> Murray Perahia || <br>
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| 2016 || Architecture || Phyllis Lambert ||
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| 2017 || Painting / Sculpture || Laurie Anderson <br> Lawrence Weiner || <br>
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| 2018 || Music || Paul McCartney <br> Ádám Fischer || <br>
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| 2019 || Architecture || Moshe Safdie ||
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| 2020 || Painting / Sculpture || Cindy Sherman ||
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| 2021 || Music || Stevie Wonder <br> Olga Neuwirth || <br>
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| 2022 || Architecture || Elizabeth Diller <br> Momoyo Kaijima <br> Yoshiharu Tsukamoto|| <br> <br>
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| 2023 || Sculpture || Fujiko Nakaya <br> Richard Long || <br>
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| 2024 || Music || György Kurtág || /
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| 2025 || Architecture || Xu Tiantian ||
|}
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.
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!Country
!Number of laureates
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|17
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| style="text-align:left;" |
|7
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| style="text-align:left;" |
|5
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| style="text-align:left;" |
|5
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| style="text-align:left;" |
|4
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| style="text-align:left;" |
|4
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| style="text-align:left;" |
|4
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| style="text-align:left;" |
|3
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| style="text-align:left;" |
|3
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| style="text-align:left;" |
|3
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| style="text-align:left;" |
|2
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| style="text-align:left;" |
|2
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| style="text-align:left;" |
|2
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| style="text-align:left;" |
|2
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| style="text-align:left;" |
|2
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| style="text-align:left;" |
|1
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| style="text-align:left;" |
|1
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| style="text-align:left;" |
|1
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| style="text-align:left;" |
|1
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| style="text-align:left;" |
|1
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| style="text-align:left;" |
|1
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| style="text-align:left;" |
|1
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| style="text-align:left;" |
|1
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Notes and references
- Wolf Prizes 2015
- Wolf Prizes 2016
- Wolf Prizes 2018
- Wolf Prize 2020
- Wolf Prize 2025