The Wallace Arts Trust 2011 paramount award was presented to Auckland artist Akiko Diegel for Cure at the Wallace Arts Centre in Auckland.
The prize was a six-month residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Programme in New York.
The Wallace Arts Trust received 559 entries for the 2011 awards, from which 117 were selected as finalists.
Dunedin artists Max Bellamy, Madeleine Child, Jonathon Cuming, Thomas Elliot, Philip Madill, Anny Perry, Simon Richardson and Justin Spiers were all short-listed for the awards, which offer prizes worth $165,000.
However, all of the prizes were claimed by Auckland artists.
A $500 people's choice prize will also be awarded after the exhibition on December 4.
The awards were judged by artists Philip Trusttum, Sara Hughes and Peter Gibson-Smith.
Other winners were.
-Fulbright Wallace Trust award (three-month residency in San Francisco): Brydee Rood (Mull Ballon Wolke Kanal Projekt).
The Kaipara Foundation Wallace Trust award (three-month residency in Solothurn, Switzerland): Matt Ellwood (Unconditional Love).
Wallace development award (two-month residency in Vermont, United States): Bronwynne Cornish (Between a Rock and Hard Place).
First runner-up award ($2000): Emil McAvoy (Helen).
Second runner-up award ($2000): Anita Levering (False Flat 6 Sap Green on Paynes Grey).
Jury Award (non-monetary): Philip Dadson (Headstamps II: Homage to the Silk Road).
