Art Sets.

Tony Costa and Lindy Lee in the Archibald

By the Art Gallery of NSW

2019 Archibald Prize winner

A portrait of artist and Zen Buddhist Lindy Lee by Tony Costa won the 2019 Archibald Prize for portraiture. It is the first time in the prize's 98-year history that an Asian Australian has been the primary subject of the winning portrait.

Paintings by Tony Costa and portraits of Lindy Lee, herself a finalist in the 2002 Archibald, have previously appeared in the Archibald.

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AGNSW prizes Tony Costa Lindy Lee, from Archibald Prize 2019

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2019/30110/

Other works by Tony Costa in the Archibald

AGNSW prizes Tony Costa David Fairbairn, from Archibald Prize 2015

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2015/29606/

AGNSW prizes Tony Costa Simon Chan, from Archibald Prize 2017

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2017/29829/

AGNSW prizes Tony Costa Claudia Chan Shaw, from Archibald Prize 2018

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2018/29940/

Other portraits of Lindy Lee in the Archibald

AGNSW prizes Bin Xie Bright smile, from Archibald Prize 2006

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2006/28302/

AGNSW prizes Kate Beynon Lindy Lee (Year of the Dragon), from Archibald Prize 2012

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2012/29217/

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/artsets/gilyyi/print