| Year
|
Winner
|
Format
|
Nominees
|
Notes
|
| 1984
|
Malcolm Morley[9] |
Painting
|
Richard Deacon
Gilbert and George
Howard Hodgkin
Richard Long
|
Inaugural prize winner, awarded £10,000[22] |
| 1985
|
Howard Hodgkin[23] |
Painting, printing
|
Terry Atkinson
Tony Cragg
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Milena Kalinovska
John Walker
|
—
|
| 1986
|
Gilbert and George[24] |
Photomontage
|
Art & Language
Victor Burgin
Derek Jarman
Stephen McKenna
Bill Woodrow
|
Nicholas Serota (pictured), Matthew Collings and Robin Klassnik were all commended. Gilbert and George were nominees in 1984.[25] |
| 1987
|
Richard Deacon[17] |
Sculpture
|
Patrick Caulfield
Helen Chadwick
Richard Long
Declan McGonagle
Thérèse Oulton
|
Richard Long was also a nominee in 1984.
|
| 1988
|
Tony Cragg[26] |
Sculpture
|
Lucian Freud
Richard Hamilton
Richard Long
David Mach
Boyd Webb
Alison Wilding
Richard Wilson
|
Richard Long was also a nominee in 1984 and 1987.
|
| 1989
|
Richard Long[27] |
Sculpture
|
Gillian Ayres
Lucian Freud
Giuseppe Penone
Paula Rego
Sean Scully
Richard Wilson
|
There was no shortlist, but the losing nominees were “commended”. Lucian Freud and Richard Wilson were nominees in 1988.
|
| 1990
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
Prize suspended due to lack of sponsor following the bankruptcy of Drexel Burnham Lambert[27] |
| 1991
|
Anish Kapoor[28] |
Sculpture
|
Ian Davenport
Fiona Rae
Rachel Whiteread
|
Prize was increased to £20,000 with sponsorship from Channel 4[29] |
| 1992
|
Grenville Davey[30] |
Sculpture
|
Damien Hirst
David Tremlett
Alison Wilding
|
—
|
| 1993
|
Rachel Whiteread[31] |
Sculpture
|
Hannah Collins
Vong Phaophanit
Sean Scully
|
First female winner; also won the £40,000 K Foundation art award presented to the “worst artist of the year”[32] |
| 1994
|
Antony Gormley[33] |
Sculpture
|
Willie Doherty
Peter Doig
Shirazeh Houshiary
|
—
|
| 1995
|
Damien Hirst[34] |
Installation, painting
|
Mona Hatoum
Callum Innes
Mark Wallinger
|
Damien Hirst: his exhibit included a bisected cow and calf in formaldehyde in a vitrine – Mother and Child Divided.[35] He was a nominee in 1992.
|
| 1996
|
Douglas Gordon[36] |
Video
|
Craigie Horsfield
Gary Hume
Simon Patterson
|
Douglas Gordon was the first winner to be based outside of London and also the first artist to win the prize with a moving image work.[37] |
| 1997
|
Gillian Wearing[38] |
Video
|
Christine Borland
Angela Bulloch
Cornelia Parker
|
The first all-female shortlist[39] |
| 1998
|
Chris Ofili[40] |
Multi-layered painting
|
Tacita Dean
Cathy de Monchaux
Sam Taylor-Wood
|
—
|
| 1999
|
Steve McQueen[41] |
Video
|
Tracey Emin
Steven Pippin
Jane and Louise Wilson
|
Tracey Emin exhibited her bed, titled My Bed[42] |
| 2000
|
Wolfgang Tillmans[43] |
Photography
|
Glenn Brown
Michael Raedecker
Tomoko Takahashi
|
Wolfgang Tillmans is German, but is based in London.[44] |
| 2001
|
Martin Creed[45] |
Installation
|
Richard Billingham
Isaac Julien
Mike Nelson
|
The prize was presented by Madonna.[46] |
| 2002
|
Keith Tyson[47] |
Installation, painting
|
Fiona Banner
Liam Gillick
Catherine Yass
|
The prize was presented by architect Daniel Libeskind.[48] |
| 2003
|
Grayson Perry[49] |
Pottery
|
Jake and Dinos Chapman
Willie Doherty
Anya Gallaccio
|
Grayson Perry, a cross-dresser, accepted the prize wearing a dress.[50] The prize was presented by Sir Peter Blake.[51] |
| 2004
|
Jeremy Deller[19] |
Video, installation
|
Kutluğ Ataman
Langlands and Bell
Yinka Shonibare
|
Prize increased to £25,000; losing nominees awarded £5,000 each. The prize was presented by journalist Jon Snow.[52] |
| 2005
|
Simon Starling[53] |
Installation
|
Darren Almond
Gillian Carnegie
Jim Lambie
|
The prize was presented by then Culture Minister David Lammy.[54] |
| 2006
|
Tomma Abts[55] |
Painting
|
Phil Collins
Mark Titchner
Rebecca Warren
|
Tomma Abts is German, but works in the UK. The prize was presented by Yoko Ono.[56] |
| 2007
|
Mark Wallinger[57] |
Installation
|
Nathan Coley
Zarina Bhimji
Mike Nelson
|
Mark Wallinger (a nominee in 1995) won for State Britain. The award show and ceremony were held in Tate Liverpool, and the prize was sponsored by Milligan.[58] The prize was presented by Dennis Hopper.[59] |
| 2008
|
Mark Leckey[60][61] |
Sculpture, film, sound, performance
|
Runa Islam
Goshka Macuga
Cathy Wilkes
|
No prize sponsor: funded by the Tate.[62] |
| 2009
|
Richard Wright[8] |
Site-specific painting
|
Enrico David
Roger Hiorns
Lucy Skaer
|
—
|
| 2010
|
Susan Philipsz[63] |
Sound installation
|
Dexter Dalwood
Angela de la Cruz
The Otolith Group (Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun)[64] |
Susan Philipsz is the first sound artist to be nominated and the first to win.[63] |
| 2011
|
Martin Boyce[65] |
Installation
|
Karla Black
Hilary Lloyd
George Shaw[66] |
Exhibition at the Baltic Gallery in Gateshead from 21 October 2011 to 8 January 2012[67] |
| 2012
|
Elizabeth Price[68] |
Video
|
Spartacus Chetwynd
Luke Fowler
Paul Noble
|
—
|
| 2013
|
Laure Prouvost
|
Installation, collage, film
|
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
David Shrigley
Tino Sehgal[69] |
—
|
| 2014
|
Duncan Campbell
|
Video
|
Ciara Phillips
James Richards
Tris Vonna-Michell
|
—
|
| 2015
|
Assemble
|
Architecture and design
|
Bonnie Camplin
Janice Kerbel
Nicole Wermers[70] |
—
|
| 2016
|
Helen Marten
|
Installation
|
Michael Dean
Anthea Hamilton
Josephine Pryde[71] |
—
|
| 2017
|
Lubaina Himid[72] |
Painting
|
Lubaina Himid
Rosalind Nashashibi
Hurvin Anderson
Andrea Büttner[73] |
The jury featured Dan Fox, Co-Editor at Frieze; Martin Herbert, art critic; Mason Leaver-Yap, Walker Art Center’s Bentson Scholar of Moving Image in Minneapolis, and associate Curator at Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin; and Emily Pethick, Director, The Showroom, London.
|
| 2018
|
Charlotte Prodger[74] |
Video
|
Forensic Architecture
Naeem Mohaiemen
Luke Willis Thompson[75] |
The 2018 jury comprises Oliver Basciano, art critic and International Editor at ArtReview; Elena Filipovic, Director, Kunsthalle Basel; Lisa Le Feuvre, Executive Director, Holt-Smithson Foundation; and Tom McCarthy, novelist and writer.
|
| 2019
|
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Helen Cammock
Tai Shani
Oscar Murillo
|
Film, spoken word performance, and painting
|
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Helen Cammock
Tai Shani
Oscar Murillo.[76] |
The prize was to be sponsored by Stagecoach South East but this was quickly dropped after criticism from the LGBT community.[77] The prize was shared by all nominees after they wrote a letter asking the judges not to choose a single winner.[78] The jury featured Alessio Antoniolli, Director, Gasworks & Triangle Network; Elvira Dyangani Ose, Director of The Showroom Gallery and Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths; Victoria Pomery, Director, Turner Contemporary, Margate and Charlie Porter, writer.
|
| 2020
|
Cancelled[79] |
Bursaries:
Oreet Ashery
Liz Johnson Artur
Shawanda Corbett
Jamie Crewe
Sean Edwards
Sidsel Meineche Hansen
Ima-Abasi Okon
Imran Perretta
Alberta Whittle
Arika[80] |
The 2020 prize was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. Instead a £10,000 bursary was given to ten artists.
|
| 2021
|
Array Collective[81] |
Installation and theatre
|
B.O.S.S
Cooking Sections
Gentle/Radical
Project Art Works
|
|
| 2022
|
Veronica Ryan[82] |
Sculpture
|
Heather Phillipson
Ingrid Pollard
Sin Wai Kin
|
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