08/28/2026
We've updated the Artists of Hawaiʻi Biennial 2026 Prospectus with all the confirmed artist awards so far! The list is as follows:
🔸 DAC Artist Awards: 🔸
Best In Show Award — ($10,000)
Elizabeth Rice Grossman Award — ($5,000)
Marcy and Robert Katz Award for Ceramics — ($1,500)
The John Young Foundation Award — ($3,000)
Cedar Street Galleries Award of Excellence — ($750)
The Louis Pohl Award (*New!) — ($500)
The Sanit Khewhok Award (*New!) — ($500)
Additional awards are generously provided by The Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) from its Artists of Hawaiʻi-related endowed funds to directly support local artists featured in this exhibition.
🔹 HoMA Awards: 🔹
HoMA's Jim Winters Award for 3-Dimensional Design — ($1,500)
HoMA's Reuben Tam Award for Painting — ($2,000)
HoMA's Melusine Award for Painting — ($5,000)
HoMA's Roselle Davenport Award for Artistic Excellence — ($4,000)
HoMA's Violette Wong Hu Award (to support an amateur artist) — ($5,000)
HoMA's Cynthia and David Eyre Award — ($2,000)
HoMA's Ellen Choy Craig Endowed Fund Award — ($4,000)
All awards are exclusive of each other - each artist may win only one award. To find out more about this exhibition, on view November 6-December 19, 2026 at Downtown Art Center, visit downtownarthi.org/artistsofhawaii!
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