This is a list of finalists for the 2006 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – Title).

• Catherine Abel – Portrait of Julia Leigh
• John Beard – Ken Unsworth
• Danelle Bergstrom – Back to front – Kevin Connor
• Kate Beynon – Year of the dog self-portrait
• Tom Carment – Professor Muecke, portrait of Stephen Muecke
• Jun Chen – Joe Furlonger
• Peter Churcher – Bruce, Linde and me on the road to Guadelupe
• Adam Cullen – Edmund, portrait of Edmund Capon
• Geoffrey Dyer – The Abstractionist Graham Fransella
• McLean Edwards – Cate Blanchett and family
• Prudence Flint – Four wheel drive #2, self-portrait
• Robert Hannaford – Tim Flannery
• Nicholas Harding – Robert Drewe (in the swell) 2006
• Weaver Jack – Weaver Jack in Lungarung, self-portrait
• Paul Jackson – Garry McDonald "All the world's a stage..." (Winner of the 2006 People's Choice Award)
• Jasper Knight – Sir Harold Knight KBE DSC
• Kerrie Lester – Phillip Noyce – in the picture
• Michael Mucci – A working class man portrait of Scott Cam (Winner of the 2006 Packing Room Prize)
• Paul Newton – Portrait of Pat Corrigan
• Josonia Palaitis – Justice Michael Kirby
• Rodney Pople – Artist and Curator, after Gainsborough
• Ben Quilty – Cullen – before and after
• Craig Ruddy – Self-portrait – into the box
• Paul Ryan – Nicholas in Nowra, portrait of Nicholas Harding
• Jenny Sages – Hossein Valamanesh
• Gillie and Marc Schattner – John and his black dog, portrait of John Konrads
• Jiawei Shen – This is not a photo, portrait of Greg Weight
• Peter Smeeth – Clover Moore with Sheba and Bruno
• Kathleen Vafiadis – Julia, portrait of Julia Gillard
• Craig Waddell – Portrait of JC, portrait of Jessie Cacchillo
• John R. Walker – Martin Armiger
• Greg Warburton – Jim Conway
• Marcus Wills – The Paul Juraszek Monolith (after Marcus Gheeraerts) (Winner of the Archibald Prize)
• Bin Xie – Bright smile, portrait of Lindy Lee
• Huihai Xie – A groom, portrait of Liu Yang
• Michael Zavros – Michael Zavros can't paint / the wind is whistling through the house, self-portrait

See also

• Previous year: List of Archibald Prize 2005 finalists
• Next year: List of Archibald Prize 2007 finalists
• List of Archibald Prize winners

External links

• Archibald Prize 2006 finalists official website