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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. Other nominated artists – Ghislaine Leung, Rory Pilgrim, and Barbara Walker