| Award | Sponsor | Notes |
| Archibald Prize | Art Gallery of New South Wales | First major prize for portraiture in Australian art |
| Australian Photographic Portrait Prize | Art Gallery of New South Wales | Discontinued in 2007 |
| Bald Archy Prize | Museum of the Riverina, Wagga Wagga | Parody of the Archibald Prize |
| Blake Prize | Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre | Focus on spiritual arts |
| Bowness Photography Prize | Monash Gallery of Art | |
| Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship | Art Gallery of New South Wales | Includes three-month residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris |
| the churchie emerging art prize | Institute of Modern Art | Since 1987; formerly at Griffith University Art Gallery |
| Clemenger Contemporary Art Award | Art Gallery of New South Wales | 1993-2009 | no longer awarded |
| Helpmann Awards | Live Performance Australia | For live entertainment and performing arts |
| Impact Awards | Performing Arts Connections Australia | Presenter/venue & Producer Awards |
| John Fries Award | Copyright Agency | Emerging visual artists |
| Kennedy Prize | Kennedy Arts Foundation | Annual Australian arts award of $25,000 |
| Kilgour Prize | Newcastle Art Gallery | $50,000 figurative and portrait art competition |
| The Ledger Awards | | Named after pioneering Australian cartoonist Peter Ledger |
| Mandorla Art Award | New Norcia Monastery Museum and Art Gallery | Christian art |
| John McCaughey Prize | National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of New South Wales | 1957– |
| Melrose Prize | South Australian Society of Arts | Prize for portraiture instituted in 1921 |
| Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Works on Paper Award | Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery | Contemporary art made on, or with, paper |
| Mosman Art Prize | Mosman Town Council | |
| Muswellbrook Art Prize | Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre | |
| National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award | Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory | |
| National Capital Art Prize | ACT | Prizes in four categories: Open, First Nations, Landscape and Student |
| National New Media Art Award | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane | |
| National Photographic Portrait Prize | National Portrait Gallery (Canberra) | |
| Portia Geach Memorial Award | The Trust Company, Perpetual | Prize for Australian female portraitists |
| Ramsay Art Prize | Art Gallery of South Australia | $100,000 prize for contemporary artists under 40 years old |
| Ranamok Glass Prize | Andy Plummer and Maureen Cahill | Defunct from 2015 |
| Salon des Refusés (Archibald) | S.H. Ervin Gallery | Rejected submissions to the Archibald Prize |
| Sculpture by the Sea | Sculpture by the Sea | |
| Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards | Sidney Myer Fund | |
| Sir John Sulman Prize | Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| Solar art prize | Royal Society of the Arts, South Australia | Climate change themes |
| South Australian Ruby Awards | Government of South Australia | Named for Dame Ruby Litchfield |
| Stanley Award | Australian Cartoonists' Association | Annual comics award |
| Stencil Art Prize | Marrickville Council etc. | Includes international stencil artists |
| Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize | South Australian Museum | For art with a science theme |
| Wynne Prize | Art Gallery of New South Wales | Landscape painting or figure sculpture art prize |