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:
Year Field Laureate(s) Country 1981 Painting Marc Chagall Antoni Tàpies / 1982 Music Vladimir Horowitz Olivier Messiaen Josef Tal / 1983/4 Architecture Ralph Erskine / 1984/5 Sculpture Eduardo Chillida 1986 Painting Jasper Johns 1987 Music Isaac Stern Krzysztof Penderecki 1988 Architecture Fumihiko Maki Giancarlo De Carlo 1989 Sculpture Claes Oldenburg / 1990 Painting Anselm Kiefer 1991 Music Yehudi Menuhin Luciano Berio / 1992 Architecture Frank Gehry Jørn Utzon Denys Lasdun / 1993 Sculpture Bruce Nauman 1994/5 Painting Gerhard Richter 1995/6 Music Zubin Mehta György Ligeti 1996/7 Architecture Frei Otto Aldo van Eyck 1998 Sculpture James Turrell 1999 Painting Not awarded 2000 Music Pierre Boulez Riccardo Muti 2001 Architecture Álvaro Siza 2002/3 Painting Louise Bourgeois / 2004 Music Mstislav Rostropovich Daniel Barenboim / / / 2005 Architecture Jean Nouvel 2006/7 Painting Michelangelo Pistoletto 2008 Music Giya Kancheli Claudio Abbado 2010 Architecture David Chipperfield Peter Eisenman 2011 Painting Rosemarie Trockel 2012 Music Plácido Domingo Simon Rattle 2013 Architecture Eduardo Souto de Moura 2014 Sculpture Olafur Eliasson 2015 Music Jessye Norman Murray Perahia 2016 Architecture Phyllis Lambert 2017 Painting / Sculpture Laurie Anderson Lawrence Weiner 2018 Music Paul McCartney Ádám Fischer 2019 Architecture Moshe Safdie 2020 Painting / Sculpture Cindy Sherman 2021 Music Stevie Wonder Olga Neuwirth 2022 Architecture Elizabeth Diller Momoyo Kaijima Yoshiharu Tsukamoto 2023 Sculpture Fujiko Nakaya Richard Long 2024 Music György Kurtág / 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. CountryNumber of laureates177554443332222211111111
Notes and references
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