Art and Culture/Turner prize
From Quiz Revision Notes
1984 | Malcolm Morley | Inaugural winner. Awarded prize money of £10,000 |
1985 | Howard Hodgkin | for the oil painting A Small Thing But My Own |
1986 | Gilbert and George | Other nominees included Derek Jarman |
1987 | Richard Deacon | Abstract sculptor. Other nominees included Patrick Caulfield |
1988 | Tony Cragg | Sculptor. Other nominees included Lucian Freud and Richard Hamilton |
1989 | Richard Long | Sculptor and land artist. Prize awarded for his lifetime body of work. He had received three previous nominations. Other nominees included Paula Rego |
1990 | Prize not awarded | Prize cancelled after the sponsor Drexel Burnham Lambert was forced into bankruptcy |
1991 | Anish Kapoor | Sculptor born in Mumbai. Prize increased to £20,000 with sponsorship from Channel 4 |
1992 | Grenville Davey | for HAL, a work consisting of two abstract steel objects |
1993 | Rachel Whiteread | for House, a concrete cast of the inside of an entire three-story house in east London. The work also won the K Foundation art award for the worst British artist. First female winner |
1994 | Antony Gormley | Sculptor. Other nominees included Peter Doig |
1995 | Damien Hirst | for works including Mother and Child, Divided (a cow and calf cut in half and placed in formaldehyde). Other nominees included Mona Hatoum |
1996 | Douglas Gordon | First video artist to win |
1997 | Gillian Wearing | for the video 60 minutes of Silence, in which a group of actors dressed in police uniforms stand still for an hour. The first all-female shortlist included Cornelia Parker |
1998 | Chris Ofili | for mixed media images using elephant dung. Other nominees included Tacita Dean and Sam Taylor-Wood |
1999 | Steve McQueen | for his video based on a Buster Keaton film. Tracey Emin exhibited My Bed |
2000 | Wolfgang Tillmans | Born in Germany. First photographer and first non-British winner. The Stuckist group staged a demonstration against the prize |
2001 | Martin Creed | for Work No. 227: The lights going on and off. Prize presented by Madonna who said "Right on, motherfuckers!" |
2002 | Keith Tyson | Fiona Banner exhibited Arsewoman in Wonderland, a 4 x 6 m printed description of a pornographic film. Banksy stencilled "Mind the crap" on the steps of the Tate |
2003 | Grayson Perry | First ceramic artist to win. Jake and Dinos Chapman exhibited Insult to Injury, Sex, and Death (two sex dolls cast in bronze and painted to look like plastic) |
2004 | Jeremy Deller | for the film Memory Bucket, documenting George W. Bush's hometown in Texas and the siege in Waco. Nominees included Yinka Shonibare. Prize money increased to £25,000 |
2005 | Simon Starling | for Shedboatshed that involved taking a wooden shed, turning it into a boat, sailing it down the Rhine and turning it back into a shed |
2006 | Tomma Abts | Born in Germany. First female painter to win the award. The total prize money was £40,000: £25,000 awarded to the winner and £5,000 to each of the other three nominees |
2007 | Mark Wallinger | for State Britain, which recreated all the objects in Brian Haw's anti-war display in Parliament Square. The prize was held outside London for the first time, in Tate Liverpool |
2008 | Mark Leckey | for the exhibitions Industrial Light & Magic and Resident |
2009 | Richard Wright | for his golden fresco, no title |
2010 | Susan Philipsz | for an installation under three bridges in Glasgow in which she sang the sea shanty Lowlands Away. First sound artist to win |
2011 | Martin Boyce | for his installation Do Words Have Voices. The prize was held in Gateshead at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art |
2012 | Elizabeth Price | for her solo exhibition 'HERE'. Price is a former member of the pop group Talulah Gosh |
2013 | Laure Prouvost | Born in France. Other nominees included Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. The prize was held in Derry / Londonerry |
2014 | Duncan Campbell | for a film which uses the IRA and Marxism to explore the value of art |
2015 | Assemble | Architecture and design collective. Awarded the prize for their work regenerating terraced houses that had been boarded up for years in Toxteth in Liverpool |
2016 | Helen Marten | for installations containing a range of handmade and recognisable objects from everyday life |
2017 | Lubaina Himid | Born in Zanzibar. For work addressing racial politics and the legacy of slavery. First black woman to win the award. The prize was held at the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull. The age limit of 50, established in 1991 and in place ever since, was abolished |
2018 | Charlotte Prodger | for films, which made use of clips shot on her iPhone overlaid with reflections on subjects surrounding queer identity. Other nominees included Forensic Architecture |
2019 | Lawrence Abu Hamdan,
Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani |
The prize was shared by all four nominees after they wrote a letter asking the judges not to choose a single winner |
2020 | Prize not awarded | The award was replaced by a bursary for 10 artists due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
2021 | Array Collective | for an installation centred on an imaginary Irish pub. First Northern Irish winners of the award |
2022 | Veronica Ryan | for her sculptures that evoke fruits, seeds, plants and vegetables, and other objects from her home island of Montserrat. Oldest winner, aged 66. Other nominees included Heather Phillipson |
2023 | Jesse Darling | for sculptures made of commonplace objects conveying ‘the messy reality of life’, and unsettling ‘notions of labour, class, Britishness and power’. First transgender winner |
2024 | Jasleen Kaur | for her Alter Altar exhibition celebrating the Scottish Sikh community. Other nominated artists – Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson and Delaine Le Bas |