Wolf Prize in Arts

The Wolf Prize in Arts is awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine and Physics. The Prize rotates annually between painting, music, architecture and sculpture.

Laureates^[1]

Year	Field	Laureate(s)	Country
1981	Painting	Marc Chagall Antoni Tapies	Russian Empire /  France  Spain
1982	Music	Vladimir Horowitz Olivier Messiaen Joseph Tal	Russian Empire /  United States  France  Israel
1983/4	Architecture	Ralph Erskine	United Kingdom /  Sweden
1984/5	Sculpture	Eduardo Chillida	Spain
1986	Painting	Jasper Johns	United States
1987	Music	Isaac Stern Krzysztof Penderecki	United States  Poland
1988	Architecture	Fumihiko Maki Giancarlo De Carlo	Japan  Italy
1989	Sculpture	Claes Oldenburg	Sweden /  United States
1990	Painting	Anselm Kiefer	Germany
1991	Music	Yehudi Menuhin Luciano Berio	United States /  United Kingdom  Italy
1992	Architecture	Frank Gehry Jørn Utzon Denys Lasdun	Canada /  United States  Denmark  United Kingdom
1993	Sculpture	Bruce Nauman	United States
1994/5	Painting	Gerhard Richter	Germany
1995/6	Music	Zubin Mehta György Ligeti	India  Austria
1996/7	Architecture	Frei Otto Aldo van Eyck	Germany  Netherlands
1998	Sculpture	James Turrell	United States
1999	Painting	Not awarded
2000	Music	Pierre Boulez Riccardo Muti	France  Italy
2001	Architecture	Álvaro Siza	Portugal
2002	Sculpture	Not awarded
2002/3	Painting	Louise Bourgeois	France /  United States
2004	Music	Mstislav Rostropovich Daniel Barenboim	Russia  Argentina /  Israel
2005	Architecture	Jean Nouvel	France
2006	Sculpture	Not awarded
2006/7	Painting	Michelangelo Pistoletto	Italy
2008	Music	Giya Kancheli Claudio Abbado*	Georgia  Italy

• Abbado could not show up to the ceremony and therefore did not win the prize this year. The Wolf Foundation will decide whether or not to award the prize to him next year.

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