Adam Portrait Awards 2020
'Marcus' Self Portrait 2019. Oil on canvas. Received the highly commended award.
The New Zealand Portrait Gallery Adam Portrait Awards.
Due to the COVID-19 lockdown, the New Zealand Portrait Gallery is currently closed, and this exhibition is only available to view online.
The Adam Portraiture Award is a biennial competition for painted portraits of New Zealanders, by New Zealanders and presents a breadth of responses to identity, and representation.
This year, judges (Karen Quinlan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia, and Linda Tyler, convenor of Museums and Cultural Heritage at the University of Auckland) selected finalists from a record number of entries, and from these an overall winner and runner-up were chosen.
People's Choice Award
Exhibition viewers are encouraged to cast a vote for the People’s Choice Award, the winner of which will receive $2,500.
