1939 – – Mural decoration on wall of Victorian Government Tourist Bureau, Hotel Australia Building, 272 Collins Street, Melbourne

Gert Sellheim

1940 – – Vaucluse Interior (painting)

Harold Abbott

1941 – – Historical Mural at Bathurst Public School

Douglas Annand

1942 – – For Whom the Bell Tolls (painting)

Jean Bellette

1943 – – Mural at le Coq D'Or Restaurant, Sydney

Elaine Haxton

1944 – – Iphigenia in Tauris (painting)

Jean Bellette

1945 – – Tribute to Shakespeare, Mural at Sydney University Union

Virgil Lo Schiavo

1946 – – Natives carrying wounded soldiers (painting)

Sali Herman

1947 – – Mural, Messrs. Jantzen (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Lidcombe.

Douglas Annand

1948 – – The Drovers (painting)

Sali Herman

1949 – – Bush Pastoral, Mural design for New State Building, Hobart

J. Carrington Smith

1950 – – Summer Holiday (painting)

Harold Greenhill

1951 – – Mural, Restaurant, R.M.S. "Oronsay"

Douglas Annand

1952 – – Darlinghurst Road (painting)

Charles Doutney

1953 – – Convicts Berrima 1839, Mural at Old Court House, Berrima

Eric Smith

1954 – – Sculptor and Model (painting)

Wallace Thornton

1955 – – Oriental Mural (mural design)

Wesley Penberthy

1956 – – Prawning at Night (genre painting)

Harold Greenhill

1957 – – The Voice of Silence (subject painting)

Michael Kmit

1958 – No Award

1959 – – The Circus (genre painting)

Susan Wright

1960 – – The Burial (subject painting)

Leonard French

1961 – – Sea Movement and Rocks (mural design)

Robin Norling

1962 – – Children Dancing (genre painting)

John Rigby

1963 – – Spring Walk (subject painting)

Roy Fluke

1964 – – The Private Public Preview (genre painting)

Ken Reinhard

1965 – – Grape-pickers and Vineyards (subject painting)

Gareth Jones-Roberts

1966 – – It's Hot in Town (genre painting)

Louis James

1967 – – Exercise in Variegation (subject painting)

Cec Burns

1968 – – Suzy 350 (genre painting)

Tim Storrier

1969 – – Spyhole (subject painting)

Louis James

1970 – – Philopena (genre painting)

Michael Kmit

1971 – – Pyramid Shelf (subject painting)

James Meldrum

1972 – – Sun-torso 128 (Bunch) (genre painting)

Peter Powditch

1973 – – The Painter Transmogrified and Mrs. Smith (subject painting)

Eric Smith

1974 – – Still Life and Comfy II

Keith Looby

1975 – (joint) Transvestite (for Diane Arbus)

Alan Oldfield

1975 – (joint) – Untitled Jane

Geoffrey Proud

1976 – – Interior with time past

Brett Whiteley

1977 – - Woman's life, woman's love 3

Salvatore Zofrea

1978 – – Yellow Nude

Brett Whiteley

1979 – – The water trap (subject painting)

Salvatore Zofrea

1980 – – The old physics building (genre painting)

Brian Dunlop

1981 – – A French family (subject painting)

William Delafield Cook

1982 – – Psalm 24 (genre)

Salvatore Zofrea

1984 – – The Burn

Tim Storrier

1986 – – Black Sun – Morning and Night, Nigel Thomson – The State Institution

Wendy Sharpe

1987 – – Crutching the Ewes, Bob Marchant – The Grand Parade Sydney Show

Marcus Beilby

1988 – – Catching rabbits and yabbies at 5-mile dam

Bob Marchant

1989 – – Don Quixote Enters the Inn

John Olsen

1990 – – Going Away/Looking Back

Robert Hollingworth

1991/92 – – Najaf (Iraq) June 1991

Kevin Connor

1992/93 – – Life Series

John Montefiore

1993/94 – – Boy Dressed as Batman 2 (Diptych)

Noel McKenna

1995 – – By the Banks of Her Own Lagoon

Juli Haas

1996 – – Grey-to-Grey

Aida Tomescu

1997 – – The Man with itchy fingers and other figures Gare du Nord

Kevin Connor

1998 – – Changed into a weeping willow

Robert Jacks

1999 – – Secret Paintings

Anne Wallace

2000 – – Snailsnake

John Peart

2001 – – Exquisite Corpse with Fire, Highly commended: Elisabeth Cummings Harbour Light

Euan Macleod

2002 – – Gazing into deep space no. 9

Guan Wei

2003 – – Reflection

Eric Smith

2004 – – Untitled

Allan Mitelman

2006 – – Peking treaty 1901

Jiawei Shen

2007 – – Axis of Elvis

David Disher

2008 – – Stage fright

Rodney Pople

2009 – – ANZAC Day Match

Ivan Durrant

2010 – – Paintings, prints & wall hangings

Michael Lindeman

2011 – – The artist's fate

Peter Smeeth

2012 – – Judo House pt 4 (Golden mud)

Nigel Milsom

2013 – – After (books)

Victoria Reichelt

2014 – Andrew Sullivan – T-rex (tyrant lizard king)

2015 – Jason Phu – I was at yum cha when in rolled the three severed heads of Buddha: fear, malice and death

2016 – – Flatland dreaming

Esther Stewart

2017 – – Oh history, you lied to me

Joan Ross

2018 – – Kaylene TV[3]

Kaylene Whiskey

2020 – – The divine[4]

Marikit Santiago

2021 – Georgia Spain – Getting down or falling up

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2022 – – Raiko and Shuten-dōji[6]

Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro

2023 – – Mamunya ngalyananyi (Monster coming)[7]

Doris Bush Nungarrayi

2024 – – Minyma mamu tjuta[8]

Naomi Kantjuriny

Source:[2]

– Sir John Sulman Prize

Art Gallery of New South Wales

– Sulman Prize finalist

Lionel Hornibrook Jago