1981
Lawrence Alloway
Hilton Kramer
Barbara Rose
Marcia Tucker

1982
Germaine Greer
Robert Hughes
Peter Plagens
John Szarkowski

1983
John Cage
John Canaday
Paul Goldberger
Michael Graves
Linda Nochlin

1984
Rosamond Bernier
Carter Ratcliff
John Simon
Tom Wolfe

1985
Tod Papageorge
Robert Pincus-Witten
Robert Smith
Susan Sontag
Mark Stevens

1986
Dennis Adrian
Dore Ashton
Peter Eisenman
Dr. Jonathan Miller
Claes Oldenburg & Coosje Vanbruggen

1987
Judith Crist
Douglas Davis
Robert Irwin
Frank Schulze
Robert Storr

1988
Peter Selz
Hilton Kramer
Robert Hughes

1989
Philippe de Montebello
Carlos Fuentes
Grace Glueck

1990
Thomas Armstrong III
Lucinda Barnes
Frank Stella

1991
Michael Brenson
John Richardson
Richard Serra
Patterson Sims

1992
Helen Frankenthaler
David Ross
Kirk Varnedoe
Deborah Wye
Marc Zuver & Ricardo Viera

1993
Robert Buck
Vicki Goldberg
Michael Kimmelman
Hilton Kramer

1994
William Agee
James Rosenquist
Mario Vargas Llosa
Lowery Stokes Sims

1995
Alex Katz
Phyllis Tuckeman
Robert Indiana

1996
Anne D’ Harnoncourt
William Lieberman
Irving Sandler
George Segal

1997
David Levy
Edward Sullivan
Thomas Hoving
Sam Hunter

1998
Robert Hughes
Glenn Lowry
Francoise Gilot
Art Spiegelman

1999
Keith Davis
Robert Farris Thompson
Susan Stamberg
Michael Brenson

2000
Elizabeth Broun
Barbara Haskell
Maxwell Anderson
Arnold Lehman

2001
Lawrence Small
Arlo Guthrie
Tomas Ybara-Frausto

2002
Pierre Rosenberg
Julia Platt Herzberg
Harald Szeemann
Neal Benezra

2003
Oscar Hijuelos
Dave Hickey
Marcia Tucker
Robert Hughes

2004
Abelardo Morell
Terry Gross
Geoffrey Holder
Cheech Marin

2005
Mark Klett
Philippe de Montebello
Carlos Fuentes
Guillermo Gomez Pena

2006
Glenn Lowry
Mark Stevens & Annalyn Swann
Camille Paglia
Coco Fusco

2007
Maya Lin
Marina Abramovic
Meryle Secrest
Dr. Elizabeth A. Sackler

2008
Lance Fung
David Adjaye
Roberto Adanto

2009
Virginia Mecklenburg
Robert Storr
Ann Hamilton