Getty Prize

Annual award celebrating arts and culture leaders from Los Angeles and across the world.

People dressed in festive outfits have cocktails and listen to speeches in a large, outdoor courtyard made of stone.

Dancers from Rhythm Arts Alliance perform at the Getty Center for the Getty Prize event in 2024.

About

Goal

The Getty Prize recognizes leaders in the cultural fields whose work expands human understanding and appreciation of arts and culture.

Approach

Established in 2013 and formerly known as the “Getty Medal,” the first award recipients were Getty’s founding president and CEO Harold Williams and founding director of program planning and analysis Nancy Englander. Since 2024, the award goes to one individual who can then recognize the work of an arts or educational non-profit with a pay-it-forward $500,000 grant from Getty. Nominations are reviewed and awardees determined by the Getty Trust Board of Trustees.

Award Recipients

2025 Ann Philbin
-Grant recipient: NPR, KCRW, LAist
2024 Mark Bradford
-Grant recipient: Arts for Healing and Justice Network
2022 Alice Walton, Martin Puryear, Kwame Anthony Appiah
2019 Lorna Simpson, Ed Ruscha, Mary Beard
2018 Thelma Golden, Agnes Gund, Richard Serra
2017 Anselm Kiefer and Mario Vargas Llosa
2016 Yo-Yo Ma and Ellsworth Kelly
2015 Frank Gehry
2014 Lord Jacob Rothschild
2013 Harold M. Williams and Nancy Englander

Contact the Team

  1. Cole Calhoun

    Press Contact

    Press images are available to journalists by request.

    (310) 440 7186

    ccalhoun@getty.edu

  2. Kimberly Uyttewaal

    Project Contact

    For donor inquiries or non-press related questions about the Getty Prize.

    (310) 440 7700

    kuyttewaal@getty.edu

News

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  1. AHJN Receives 2024 Getty Prize Grant

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  2. 2022 Getty Medal Recipient Alice Walton

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    Philanthropist Alice Walton is dedicated to expanding access to the arts and arts education to communities throughout America

  3. 2022 Getty Medal Recipient Kwame Anthony Appiah

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  4. 2022 Getty Medal Recipient Martin Puryear

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    Martin Puryear is one of today’s most influential sculptors

  5. On Artist Lorna Simpson, Recipient of the 2019 Getty Medal

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    Lorna Simpson has been a pioneering artist for 30 years

  6. On Ed Ruscha's Streets of Los Angeles Archive

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    The “Streets of Los Angeles” project has lasted over 50 years, producing over half a million photographs

  7. Get to Know Classicist Mary Beard

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    Meet Getty Medal recipient Mary Beard and hear why she's passionate about studying the ancient world