List of Archibald Prize 2005 finalists

This is a list of finalists for the 2005 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – Title).
 * Rick Amor – Shane Maloney (Image)
 * Bruce Armstrong – Self portrait (Image)
 * Martin Ball – John Pule
 * John Beard – Hilarie Mais
 * Jason Benjamin – Staring down the past – (Bill Hunter) (Image) (Winner of the Packing Room Prize)
 * Annette Bezor – Still posing after all this time (a self portrait)
 * Jon Campbell – Double Darren
 * Adam Chang – Gene & the doorway
 * Peter Churcher – Portrait of Jeffrey Smart
 * Esther Erlich – Lindy Wills
 * James Guppy – Chagrin
 * Robert Hannaford – Bob Brown
 * Nicholas Harding – Bob's daily swim – (Robert Dickerson) (Image) (Winner of the People's Choice Award)
 * Bill Hay – Allan Mitelman
 * Terrence Hunter Chapter Six – Self portrait
 * Paul Jackson – Gretel Killeen
 * Raymond Kenyon – The architect at home – (Glenn Murcutt)
 * Jasper Knight – Richard Gill
 * Kerrie Lester – Rebel
 * Mathew Lynn – Wendy drawing – (Wendy Sharpe)
 * Lewis Miller – My dentist – Dr Jonathan Hartley
 * Ian North – Daniel Thomas at home, Northern Tasmania
 * John Olsen – Self portrait Janus faced (Winner of the Archibald Prize)
 * Rodney Pople – Kerrie Lester – after Goya
 * Ben Quilty – Beryl – (Beryl Whiteley, mother of Brett Whiteley)
 * Abdul Karim – Rahimi John McDonald
 * David Ralph – Imagination – Adam and Harvie – (Adam Elliot was the creator of Harvie Krumpet)
 * Paul Ryan – Archibald, Archibald, wherefore art thou Archibald?
 * Jenny Sages – Gloria Tamere Petyarre
 * Garry Shead – All the World's a Stage – Simon Phillips
 * Jiawei Shen – John So, The Lord Mayor of Melbourne
 * Avril Thomas – The Minister from down under – (Hon. Alexander Downer M.P.)
 * Deborah Trusson – Naked
 * John R. Walker – Self portrait
 * Xu Wang – Jiawei Shen
 * Michael Zavros – Portrait of Alex Dimitriades