SECA Art Award History
| 1967 | SECA Grant Award Mel Henderson |
| 1968 | SECA Grant Award Peter Zecher |
| 1969 | SECA Grant Award William Allan |
| 1970 | SECA Grant Award James Reineking |
| 1970 | SECA Vernal Equinox Special Award* Bonnie Ora Sherk and Howard Levine |
| 1971 | SECA Grant Award Wayne E. Campbell |
| 1971 | SECA Vernal Equinox Special Award* Terry Fox |
| 1972 | SECA Vernal Equinox Special Award* Stephen Davis |
| 1973 | SECA Grant Award David Kimball Anderson; Special recognition: David Jones, Jim Pomeroy |
| 1973 | SECA Film as Art Awards* Ronald Chase, Robert Burrill, Horst Leissl, Jeffery Miller, Frederick Fierstein, Amnon Igra, Steve Klocksiem, Larry Lansburgh, Brian Lansburgh |
| 1974 | SECA Grant Award Charles R. Garoian, Jerome Johnson, David Jones, Bryan Rogers, and Mary Snowden |
| 1974 | SECA Film as Art Awards* Robert Bloomberg, Vince Collins, Peter Hutton, Larry Huston, Jeffrey Hale, Derek Lamb, Suzanne Simpson |
| 1975 | SECA Film as Art Awards* James Broughton, Dave Viera, Michael O’Callahan, Richard Bell, Vince Collins |
| 1975 | SECA Grant Award Ciel Bergman (aka Cheryl Bowers), Lucian Octavius Pompili, and Cornelia Schulz |
| 1976 | SECA Grant Award David Maclay |
| 1977 | SECA Art Award David Best, Michael Jean Cooper, Glenn Jampol, and Miklós Pogány |
| 1978 | SECA Art Award Milton Komisar |
| 1978 | SECA Film as Art Awards* Dennis “Sky” David Pies, Gregg Schiffner, Rollin Buckman, Robert Burrill, Niccolo Caldararo, Robert C. Chiesa, Amanda C. Pope |
| 1980 | SECA Art Award Squeak Carnwath, Suzanne Hanson, and Seth Seiderman |
| 1980 | SECA Photography Invitational* Gay Block, Jack Butler, Vida Freeman, Sally Gall, Victor Landweber, Thomas Neff, Jane O’Neal, Susan Rankaitis, Gail Skoff, Wolf von dem Bussche, and Steve Yates |
| 1980 | SECA Film as Art Awards* Les Blank, Ronald Chase, Bruce Conner, Pat Ferrero, Suzanne Simpson, Andy Aaron, Michael Anderson, Vince Collins, Sally Cruikshank, Dennis “Sky” David Pies, Lambert Yam |
| 1981 | SECA Art Award Marc Katano, George Lawson, and Margaret Rinkovsky |
| 1982 | SECA Photography Invitational* John Bloom, Lynda Frese, Paul Klein, Douglas Muir, Michael Narcisco, Jeanne O’Connor, Art Rogers, Thom Sempere, Barbara Thompson, Bruce Van Meter, and Laura Volkerding |
| 1983 | SECA Art Award Clay Jensen |
| 1984 | SECA Art Award Larry Thomas |
| 1984 | SECA Film as Art Awards* Michael Naimark: Displacements; Gunvor Nelson, Michael Emery, James Irwin, Michael Rudnick, Don Bonato, Bruce Conner, Arthur Dong, Keith M. Jones, Charles Koppelman, Stephanie Maxwell, Greg McLain, David Michalak, Christian Schiess |
| 1985 |
SECA Art Award Richard Overstreet and Rick Soss |
| 1986 | SECA Art Award Ev Thomas |
| 1987 | SECA Art Award Anna Valentina Murch |
| 1987 | SECA Film as Art Awards* Susan Friedman, Ruby Yang, Sal Giammona, Eric Sayetta, Dominic Angerame, Al Hernandez, Cathy Levine, Alan Mukamal |
| 1988 | SECA Video Invitational Award* Lawrence Andrews, Paula Levine, Marek Pacholec, Alan Rath, Lisé Swenson |
| 1988 |
SECA Art Award Susan Marie Dopp |
| 1990 | SECA Art Award Nayland Blake and John Meyer |
| 1990 | SECA Film as Art Award* Sal Giammona, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Michael Wallin, Sylvie Carnot, Ted White |
| 1992 |
SECA Art Award John Beech, Hung Liu, and Maria Porges |
| 1992 | SECA Video Award* Barbara Hammer, Marlon T. Riggs, Jonathan Robinson, Ed Rudolph, Michele Zaccheo; award commission: Christiane Robbins |
| 1994 |
SECA Art Award Toi Hoang |
| 1996 | SECA Art Award D-L Alvarez, Anne Appleby, Barry McGee |
| 1996 | SECA Electronic Media Award* Rebeca Bollinger, Jim Campbell, Paul DeMarinis, and Carol Selter |
| 1998 |
SECA Art Award Chris Finley, Gay Outlaw, Laurie Reid, and Rigo 98 (now Rigo 23) |
| 1998 | SECA Award in the Media Arts: Film* Ronald Levaco, Corey Ohama, Jay Rosenblatt, David Sherman, John Turk |
| 2000 | SECA Art Award Rachael Neubauer and Kathryn VanDyke |
| 2001 |
SFMOMA Experimental Design Award* Thom Faulders, Donald Fortescue, and Post Tool Design |
| 2002 |
SECA Art Award John Bankston, Andrea Higgins, Chris Johanson, and Will Rogan |
| 2004 | SECA Art Award Rosana Castrillo Díaz, Simon Evans, Shaun O’Dell, and Josephine Taylor |
| 2006 |
SECA Art Award Sarah Cain, Kota Ezawa, Amy Franceschini, Mitzi Pederson, and Leslie Shows |
| 2008 | SECA Art Award Tauba Auerbach, Desirée Holman, Jordan Kantor, and Trevor Paglen |
| 2010 | SECA Art Award Mauricio Ancalmo, Colter Jacobsen, Ruth Laskey, and Kamau Amu Patton |
| 2012 | SECA Art Award Zarouhie Abdalian, Josh Faught, Jonn Herschend, and David Wilson |
| 2017 | SECA Art Award Liam Everett, Alicia McCarthy, Sean McFarland, K.r.m. Mooney, and Lindsey White |
| 2019 | SECA Art Award Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Sahar Khoury, Marlon Mullen |
*SECA Award Special Exhibitions and Presentations
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