This is a list of finalists for the 2006 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – Title).
- Catherine Abel – Portrait of Julia Leigh
- John Beard – Ken Unsworth
- Danelle Bergstrom – Back to front – Kevin Connor
- Kate Beynon – Year of the dog self-portrait
- Tom Carment – Professor Muecke, portrait of Stephen Muecke
- Jun Chen – Joe Furlonger
- Peter Churcher – Bruce, Linde and me on the road to Guadelupe
- Adam Cullen – Edmund, portrait of Edmund Capon
- Geoffrey Dyer – The Abstractionist Graham Fransella
- McLean Edwards – Cate Blanchett and family
- Prudence Flint – Four wheel drive #2, self-portrait
- Robert Hannaford – Tim Flannery
- Nicholas Harding – Robert Drewe (in the swell) 2006
- Weaver Jack – Weaver Jack in Lungarung, self-portrait
- Paul Jackson – Garry McDonald "All the world's a stage..." (Winner of the 2006 People's Choice Award)
- Jasper Knight – Sir Harold Knight KBE DSC
- Kerrie Lester – Phillip Noyce – in the picture
- Michael Mucci – A working class man portrait of Scott Cam (Winner of the 2006 Packing Room Prize)
- Paul Newton – Portrait of Pat Corrigan
- Josonia Palaitis – Justice Michael Kirby
- Rodney Pople – Artist and Curator, after Gainsborough
- Ben Quilty – Cullen – before and after
- Craig Ruddy – Self-portrait – into the box
- Paul Ryan – Nicholas in Nowra, portrait of Nicholas Harding
- Jenny Sages – Hossein Valamanesh
- Gillie and Marc Schattner – John and his black dog, portrait of John Konrads
- Jiawei Shen – This is not a photo, portrait of Greg Weight
- Peter Smeeth – Clover Moore with Sheba and Bruno
- Kathleen Vafiadis – Julia, portrait of Julia Gillard
- Craig Waddell – Portrait of JC, portrait of Jessie Cacchillo
- John R. Walker – Martin Armiger
- Greg Warburton – Jim Conway
- Marcus Wills – The Paul Juraszek Monolith (after Marcus Gheeraerts) (Winner of the Archibald Prize)
- Bin Xie – Bright smile, portrait of Lindy Lee
- Huihai Xie – A groom, portrait of Liu Yang
- Michael Zavros – Michael Zavros can't paint / the wind is whistling through the house, self-portrait
See also edit
- Previous year: List of Archibald Prize 2005 finalists
- Next year: List of Archibald Prize 2007 finalists
- List of Archibald Prize winners