Locus Award for Best Artist


The Locus Award for Best Artist is one of the annual Locus Awards presented by the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus. Awards presented in a given year are for works published in the previous calendar year. There were art awards included from the start of the Locus Awards, both for Fan and Professional artists, but the current award did not stabilise until 1974, then as Best Professional Artist.
The Locus Awards have been described as a prestigious prize in science fiction, fantasy and horror literature.

Winners

Best Fan Artist

There was also a Best Fan Cartoonist award made to Bill Rotsler in 1971.

Best Professional Artist

YearAward NameArtistRef.
1971Paperback Cover IllustratorLeo and Diane Dillon
1972Paperback ArtistGene Szafran
1972Magazine ArtistFrank Kelly Freas
1973Paperback Cover ArtistFrank Kelly Freas
1973Magazine ArtistFrank Kelly Freas
1974Professional ArtistFrank Kelly Freas
1975Frank Kelly Freas
1976Frank Kelly Freas
1976Rick Sternbach
1977Rick Sternbach
1978No Award Made
1979Boris Vallejo
1980Michael Whelan
1981Michael Whelan
1982ArtistMichael Whelan
1983Michael Whelan
1984Michael Whelan
1985Michael Whelan
1986Michael Whelan
1987Michael Whelan
1988Michael Whelan
1989Michael Whelan
1990Michael Whelan
1991Michael Whelan
1992Michael Whelan
1993Michael Whelan
1994Michael Whelan
1995Michael Whelan
1996Michael Whelan
1997Michael Whelan
1998Michael Whelan
1999Michael Whelan
2000Michael Whelan
2001Bob Eggleton
2002Michael Whelan
2003Bob Eggleton
2004Michael Whelan
2005Michael Whelan
2006Michael Whelan
2007John Picacio
2008Charles Vess
2009Michael Whelan
2010Michael Whelan
2011Shaun Tan
2012Shaun Tan
2013Michael Whelan
2014Michael Whelan
2015John Picacio
2016Michael Whelan
2017Julie Dillon
2018Julie Dillon
2019Charles Vess
2020John Picacio
2021John Picacio
2022Charles Vess
2023Charles Vess
2024John Picacio
2025Charles Vess