List of Archibald Prize 2016 finalists

This is a list of finalists for the 2016 Archibald Prize for portraiture. As the images are copyrighted, an external link to an image has been listed where available (listed is Artist – Title).
 * Abdul Abdullah – The cost  (Portrait of Craig Campbell)
 * Clara Adolphs – Terry Serio
 * Benjamin Aitken – Portrait of mentor (Jon Cattapan and self) 
 * Tony Albert – Tony Albert (after Brownie Downing)  (Self-portrait)
 * Danelle Bergstrom – Guy Warren 
 * Kate Beynon – Claudia, Spartacus and the robots 
 * Natasha Bieniek – Wendy Whiteley 
 * Chris Bond – The restless dead (portrait of the artist)  (Self-portrait)
 * Dean Brown – McLean Edwards
 * Chris Browne –  Krista Brennan 
 * Daniel Butterworth –  Annie Smithers 
 * Yvette Coppersmith –  Rose Burn self-portrait 
 * Lucy Culliton –  Lucy and fans  (Self-portrait)
 * Sinead Davies –  Toni Zeltzer 
 * Camillo De Luca –  Polymath  (Portrait of Josh Frydenberg)
 * Marc Etherington – King Ken (Ken Done in his studio) 
 * David Fairbairn – Large head JL no 3  (Portrait of John Lascelles)
 * Betina Fauvel-Ogden –  George Calombaris, masterchef  (Winner of the Packing Room Prize 2016) (Image)
 * Carla Fletcher – Twin souls, Linda Jackson
 * Prudence Flint – Shower  (Portrait of Athena Bellas)
 * Juan Ford – Regaining sight (a meditation on Rose Soady)  (Self-portrait)
 * David Griggs – It's a G thang  (Portrait of Max Francois Germanos)
 * Guan Wei – Plastic surgery (Self-portrait)
 * Tsering Hannaford – Self-portrait with magnolia 
 * Nicholas Harding –  Peter Weiss AO 
 * Louise Hearman –  Barry  (Portrait of Barry Humphries) (Winner of the Archibald Prize 2016) (Image)
 * Belynda Henry – Louise Olsen, a beautiful summary 
 * Mark Horton – Troy (Portrait of Troy Grant)
 * Alan Jones –  Pat  (Portrait of Pat Corrigan)
 * Guy Maestri – Shattered (Griggs)  (Portrait of David Griggs)
 * Dean Manning – Maximum Lawrence  (Portrait of Lawrence Leung)
 * Marie Mansfield – Study of Euan Macleod
 * India Mark –  Day at the gallery with Dane Taylor 
 * Michael McWilliams –  The usurpers (self-portrait) 
 * Lewis Miller – Portrait of Bernie Teague 
 * Nick Mourtzakis –  Self-portrait: in violet 
 * Kirsty Neilson –  There's no humour in darkness  (Portrait of Garry McDonald)
 * William Rhodes – Alice 
 * Melissa Ritchie – Rhys smart mouth  (Portrait of Rhys Nicholson)
 * Monica Rohan – Easton Pearson  (Portrait of Pamela Easton and Lydia Pearson)
 * Sally Ross – Roslyn  (Portrait of Roslyn Oxley)
 * Marikit Santiago – Blacklustre  (Portrait of Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran)
 * Nick Stathopoulos – Deng  (Portrait of Deng Adut) (Winner of the People's Choice Award 2016) (Image)
 * Imants Tillers – Double reality (self-portrait) 2014–2016 
 * Rosemary Valadon – The Scribbler (Luke Sciberras) 
 * Natasha Walsh – Self-portrait 
 * Peter Wegner – John Wolseley 
 * Mirra Whale – Philip Nitschke
 * Marcus Wills – The ersatz (James Batchelor) 
 * Heidi Yardley – Birth/death – portrait of Nell 
 * Zoe Young – Sam Harris  (Portrait of Samantha Harris)