National Prize for Plastic Arts (Chile)

The National Prize for Plastic Arts (Spanish: Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas) was created in Chile in 1992 under Law 19169 as one of the replacements of the National Prize of Art.^[1] It is granted "to the person who has distinguished himself by his achievements in the respective area of the arts" (Article 8 of the aforementioned law). It is part of the National Prize of Chile.

National Prize for Plastic Arts
To the person who has distinguished himself by his achievements in the respective area of the arts
Country	Chile
First award	1992

The prize, which is awarded every two years, consists of a diploma, the sum of 6,576,457 pesos (US$8,665) which is adjusted every year, according to the previous year's consumer price index, and a pension of 20 monthly tax units [es] (approximately US$1,600).

Laureates

Year	Laureate	Photo	Discipline	Example work	Name
1993	Sergio Montecino Montalva		Painter
1995	Lily Garafulic[2]		Sculptor		Imagen para el Bicentenario
1997	Sergio Castillo Mandiola		Sculptor		Erupción
1999	José Balmes		Painter		Corazón de hueso blanco
2001	Rodolfo Opazo Bernales		Painter, sculptor		Imágenes de barrio
2003	Gonzalo Díaz Cuevas		Painter, photographer
2005	Eugenio Dittborn		Visual artist		La cocina y la guerra
2007	Guillermo Núñez		Painter
2009	Federico Assler		Sculptor		Doble relieve y columna
2011	Gracia Barrios		Painter		Imagen con caballo negro
2013	Alfredo Jaar[3]	150px	Visual artist		One Million Finnish Passports
2015	Roser Bru[4]		Painter
2017	Paz Errázuriz[5]		Photographer
2019	Eduardo Vilches Prieto		Painter
2021	Francisco Gazitúa		Sculptor		Esmeralda II
2023	Cecilia Vicuña		Visual artist		Eman si pasión - Parti si pasión (1974)