CITYarts is grateful to have had the opportunity to recognize the following individuals who have made a significant impact on the arts and education in our city and abroad.
2021 - Alicka Ampry-Samuel, Charlotta Kotik, Rozina Vavetsi
2020 - Rita and Waldo Falkener, Agnes Denes, Benjamin Lev
2019 - Sean Kelly, Barbara and Aaron Levine, Dr. Judith M. Burton
2018 - Gene Kaufman, Diane Brown
2017 - Joyce Kozloff, Erika Yonks, Robert Friedman
2016 - Virginia Zabriskie, Eleanor Flomenhaft, Nada Maria Anid, PhD, Cheryl Wills
2015 - Charles C. Bergman, Stephanie French
2014 - Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz, Marc Gobe, Barbara Kopple
2013 - Leland Melvin, Paula Scher, Vartan Gregorian
2012 - Alberta Arthurs, David Finn, Will Barnet, Bill Baker, Irwin Jaeger
2011 - Irene Pritzer, Byron Pitts
2010 - Amir Dossal, Sarah Ferguson, Badr Jafar
2009 - Louise Bourgeois, Lisa Dennison, Her Highness Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Al Maktoum
2008 - Emily Fisher Landau, Adrian Benepe, Vik Muniz
2007 - Elizabeth Murray, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Nicolas Rohatyn
2006 - ArtTable, Inc., Jan Carendi
2005 - Deepak Chopra, Theodore Berger, Andrew Krieger
2004 - Daniel Libeskind, Sheila Johnson
2003 - Chuck Close, Mary Schmidt Campbell
2002 - Anna Carbonell, Henry Buhl, Richard Kahan
2001 - Jackie Robinson, Justice Carol Hop Arber
2000 - Nam June Paik, Shigeko Kubota
1999 - Susan Hort, Michael Hort, Steve Paulus, Ed Piccetti, Faith Ringgold
1998 - Maya Angelou
1997 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Nancy Spero, Leon Golub, AT&T
1996 - Snapple, Anthony Bonner, Christo, Jeanne-Claude
1995 - Paul Binder, Mookie Wilson, Laurie Tisch Sussman
1994 - Marcia Tucker, Chris Wink, Phil Stanton, Matt Goldman, Joseph J.N. Saleh
1993 - Kinshasha Conwill, John Leguizamo, Martin Liebman