The Catharine E. B. Cox Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts is a biannual award given to a visual artist who either lives in Hawaii

Hawaii

Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...

 or was born in Hawaii. The recipient may work in any medium, and is honored with a solo exhibition at the Honolulu Academy of Arts

Honolulu Academy of Arts

The Honolulu Academy of Arts is an art museum in Honolulu in the state of Hawaii. Since its founding in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke and opening April 8, 1927, its collections have grown to over 40,000 works of art.-Description:...

. The award was established in 1985 by Charles S. Cox of La Jolla, California, Doak C. Cox of Honolulu and Richard H. Cox of Honolulu to honor their grandmother, Catharine Elizabeth Bean Cox

Catharine Elizabeth Bean Cox

Catharine Elizabeth Bean Cox was born in Iowa into a Quaker family on August 11, 1865. She received a BA from Bryn Mawr College in 1889. In 1891, she married Isaac Milton Cox. In 1898, she and her family moved to Hawaii, spurred by Isaac’s poor health...

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Recipients of the award were:

• 1990 Dorothy Faison
• 1992 Michael Tom
  Michael Tom
  Michael Tom was an American sculptor who was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He received a bachelor of fine art degree in painting and metalsmithing from Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California, and pursued graduate studies at San Diego State University. He started his artistic...
  
  
• 1994 Laura Smith
• 1996 Shigeru Miyamoto
• 1998 Hanae Uechi Mills
• 2000 Renee Iijima
• 2002 Yida Wang
• 2004 Lonny Tomono
• 2006 Ka‘ili Chun
• 2008 Leland Miyano
  Leland Miyano
  Leland Miyano is an artist, landscape designer and author born and raised in Hawai'i. He received his Fine Arts degree from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa....
  
  
• 2010 Sanit Khewhok

Also see:

• Catharine Elizabeth Bean Cox
  Catharine Elizabeth Bean Cox
  Catharine Elizabeth Bean Cox was born in Iowa into a Quaker family on August 11, 1865. She received a BA from Bryn Mawr College in 1889. In 1891, she married Isaac Milton Cox. In 1898, she and her family moved to Hawaii, spurred by Isaac’s poor health...