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Congratulations 2026 Awards for Distinction Recipients!

posted by CAA — March 09, 2026

Each year at the Annual Conference, CAA honors outstanding achievements in visual arts and art scholarship during Convocation by announcing the annual Awards for Distinction recipients. Congratulations to the 2026 awardees!

	Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art Okwui Enwezor
	Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement Lynn Hershman Leeson
	*Art Journal* Award Mary Trent, “Reappropriating Gauguin in Contemporary Polynesian Photography,” Art Journal, Fall 2025
	Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award Waleria Dorogova and Laura Microulis eds., Sonia Delaunay: Living Art, Bard Graduate Center / Yale University Press, 2024
	Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, Collections, and Exhibitions Jean-Louis Cohen and Vanessa Grossman eds. Constructed Geographies: Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Casa da Arquitectura–Portuguese Centre for Architecture / Yale University Press, 2024
	Frank Jewett Mather Award Irene V. Small, The Organic Line: Toward a Topology of Modernism, Zone Books, 2024 Honorable Mention: Sara Nadal-Melsió, Europe and the Wolf: Political Variations on a Musical Figure, Zone Books, 2025
	Charles Rufus Morey Book Award Richard Taws, Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France, MIT Press, 2025 Jennifer Raab, Relics of War: The History of a Photograph, Princeton University Press, 2024
	Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize Maya Harakawa, “Through and Against Abstraction: Thinking Space with Smokehouse Associates,” The Art Bulletin, March 2025
	CAA/AIC Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation Zainab Bahrani
	Artist Award for a Distinguished Body of Work Postcommodity
	Distinguished Teaching Award (Art) Victoria Vesna
	Distinguished Teaching Award (Art History) Elina Gertsman
	Distinguished Feminist Award (Art) Joyce Kozloff
	Distinguished Feminist Award (Art History) Andrea Giunta
	Excellence in Diversity Award Steven Nelson