2018

CAFA Agnès Varda Award “Star of the Year”

2017

FIPRESCI Prize, 2017 Locarno Film Festival

2016

Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA)

2015
The Department of State’s office of Art in Embassies (AIE)- Medal of Arts, New York

2015 de FINE art honoree of the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah

Liberty award, LMCC

Appointed by Cornell University as the Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large.

2014

The spirit of the city award, Cathedral of St John the Divine

2013

honorary doctorate from Emily Carr University of Art + Design

2012

The Washington Post lists Tobacco Project as one of the “Top 10 Works of Art and Architecture in 2011.”

2010

Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Columbia University, New York

2007
Southern Graphics Council Lifetime Achievement in Printmaking Award

2006
International Association of Art Critics Award for “Best Installation or Single Work of Art in a Museum, New England”

2005
The Youth Friends Award, NYC

2004
Artes Mundi Prize

American Academy in Berlin Coca-Cola Fellowship

2003
Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize

1999

MacArthur Fellowship

1998

Pollock Krasner Foundation Prize

1996
Art Pace Foundation Resident Artist