Archibald Prize 1986
Entries: 218 (26 selected)
Sponsor: Grace Brothers
Exhibition dates: 20 December 1986 to 26 January 1987
Only selected works were exhibited; each artist could submit up to two works
The prize money for the Archibald was increased from $10,000 to $20,000.
- Margaret Ackland - Beth Mayne
- Davida Allen - Dr John Arthur McKelvie Shera (Winner: Archibald Prize 1986)
- Naomi Berns - David Williamson (playwright/author)
- Jonathan Bowden - Portrait of Robert Stonjek, unpublished poet
- John Caldwell - John Brackenreg
- Fred Cress - David Armstrong
- William Dargie - Tony Rafty the caricaturist
- Robert Eadie - Portrait of Alex Trompf with Pauline Webber
- David Fairbairn - Three portraits of WCF - my father
- John Gillham - Vermeer, Van Meegeren and Van den Berg: portrait of Yelle
- Leeka Gruzdeff - Rita Hunter
- Christine Hiller - Homage to Van Gogh: self-portrait with peasants
- Frank Hodgkinson - Donald Friend
- Keith Looby - John Bloomfield's Arta Eaten
- Vladas Meskenas - Desiderius Orban
- Robert Morris - Ian Smith, artist and self-portrait 1986
- Aileen Rogers - Richard Mackay
- Victor Rubin - Auto-mask
- Garry Shead - Martin Sharp
- Eric John Smith - Richard Hall, author and journalist
- Ian Smith - Portrait of Ray Hughes from life - with unreliable photography
- Joshua Smith - Professor Fred Rost
- Nigel Thomson - Kate Grenville - writer/mother
- Wes Walters - Portrait of William J Hughes
- Michael Winters - Urban forms, primitive forms and Jim McClelland
- Salvatore Zofrea - Eileen Chanin 1986