Alpert Awards in the Arts
The Alpert Award in the Arts was established in the 1994 by The Herb Alpert Foundation in collaboration with the California Institute of the Arts. According to the foundation, the awards are chosen by a panel of experts and are given to risk-taking artists typically in their mid-careers. The foundation provides $75,000 annual fellowship to five artists in the field of dance, film and video, music, theatre, and visual arts.
| Year | Film/Video | Visual Arts | Theatre | Dance | Music |
| 1995 | Leslie Thornton | Mel Chin | Reza Abdoh | Ann Carlson | James Carter |
| 1996 | Su Friedrich | Carrie Mae Weems | Suzan-Lori Parks | David Roussève | Anne LeBaron |
| 1997 | Craig Baldwin | Kerry James Marshall | Lisa Kron | Victoria Marks | Chen Yi |
| 1998 | Jeanne C. Finley | Roni Horn | Danny Hoch | Joanna Haigood | Pamela Z |
| 1999 | Lourdes Portillo | Pepon Osorio | Brian Freeman | Ralph Lemon | George Lewis |
| 2000 | Peggy Ahwesh | Shirin Neshat | W. David Hancock | Mark Dendy | Steve Coleman |
| 2001 | Ellen Bruno | Cai Guo-Qiang | Erik Ehn | John Kelly | Zhou Long |
| 2002 | ®TM | Christian Marclay | David Greenspan | Lisa Nelson | Laetitia Sonami |
| 2003 | Coco Fusco | Catherine Opie | Carl Hancock Rux | Rennie Harris | Vijay Iyer |
| 2004 | Renee Tajima-Peña | Catherine Sullivan | Dan Hurlin | Stephan Koplowitz | Miya Masaoka |
| 2005 | Jem Cohen | Harrell Fletcher | Naomi Iizuka | Donna Uchizono | David Dunn |
| 2006 | Bill Morrison | Jim Hodges | Daniel Alexander Jones | Sarah Michelson | Lawrence D. Morris |
| 2007 | Jacqueline Goss | Walid Raad | Cynthia Hopkins | Jeanine Durning | Mark Feldman |
| 2008 | Bruce McClure | Byron Kim | Lisa D'Amour | Pat Graney | Derek Bermel |
| 2009 | Paul Chan | Paul Pfeiffer | Rinde Eckert | Reggie Wilson | John King |
| 2010 | Jim Trainor | Rachel Harrison | Bill Talen | Susan Rethorst | Lukas Ligeti |
| 2011 | Natalia Almada | Emily Jacir | Marc Bamuthi Joseph | Jess Curtis | Nicole Mitchell |
| 2012 | Kevin Everson | Michael Smith | Eisa Davis | Nora Chipaumire | Myra Melford |
| 2013 | Lucien Castaing-Taylor | Sharon Hayes | Pavol Liska & Kelly Copper | Julia Rhoads | Alex Mincek |
| 2014 | Deborah Stratman | Daniel Joseph Martinez | Annie Dorsen | Michelle Dorrance | Matana Roberts |
| 2015 | Sharon Lockhart | Tania Bruguera | Taylor Mac | Maria Hassabi | Julia Wolfe |
| 2016 | Cauleen Smith | Simone Leigh | Anne Washburn | Ishmael Houston-Jones | Dohee Lee |
| 2017 | Kerry Tribe | Amy Franceschini | Daniel Fish | Luciana Achugar | Eve Beglarian |
| 2018 | Arthur Jafa | Michael Rakowitz | Robert O'Hara | Okwui Okpokwasili | Courtney Bryan |
| 2019 | Beatriz Santiago Muñoz | Cecilia Vicuña | Lloyd Suh | Pam Tanowitz | Meshell Ndegeocello |
| 2020 | Sky Hopinka | Firelei Baez | Phil Soltanoff | Karen Sherman | Christian Scott |