Awards & Winners

Michael Whelan

Date of Birth 29-June-1950
Place of Birth Culver City
(Los Angeles, United States of America, California)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Michael R. Whelan
Profession Artist
Michael Whelan is an American artist of imaginative realism. For more than 30 years he worked as an illustrator specializing in science fiction and fantasy cover art. Since the mid-1990s he has pursued a fine art career, selling non-commissioned paintings through galleries in the United States and through his website. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Whelan in June 2009, the first living artist so honored. According to his Hall of Fame citation, Michael Whelan is one of the most important contemporary science fiction and fantasy artists, and certainly the most popular. His work was a dominant force in the transition of genre book covers away from the surrealism introduced in the 1950s and 1960s back to realism. His paintings have appeared on the covers of more than 350 books and magazines, including many Stephen King novels, most of the Del Rey editions of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series, the Del Rey edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars series, Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince and Dragon Star series, the Del Rey editions of H.P. Lovecraft's short story collections, the DAW editions of Michael Moorcock's Elric books, numerous DAW editions of C. J. Cherryh's work, many of Robert A. Heinlein's novels including Friday and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, the Ace editions of H. Beam Piper's Fuzzy novels, and Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Otherland, and Shadowmarch series. Whelan provided covers and interior illustrations for Stephen King's The Gunslinger and The Dark Tower, the first and last of his Dark Tower books.

Awards by Michael Whelan

Check all the awards nominated and won by Michael Whelan.

2006


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Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

2002


Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

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Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

2001


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Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

2000


Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

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Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

1999


Nominations 1999 »

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Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

1998


Nominations 1998 »

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Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist
Locus Award for Best Art Book Something in My Eye

1997


Nominations 1997 »

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Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

1996


Nominations 1996 »

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Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

1995


Nominations 1995 »

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Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist
Hugo Award for Best Original Art Work
for the cover of Foreigner by C. J. Cherryh [DAW, 1994]

1994


Nominations 1994 »

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Hugo Award for Best Related Work The Art of Michael Whelan
Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist
Locus Award for Best Art Book The Art of Michael Whelan

1993


Nominations 1993 »

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Hugo Award for Best Original Art Work
for the cover of Asimov\u2019s Nov 1992 (Asimov portrait) [Asimov's Nov 1992]
Hugo Award for Best Original Art Work
for the cover of Illusion by P. Volsky [Bantam Spectra, 1992]

1992


Hugo Award for Best Original Art Work
(for the cover of The Summer Queen by Joan D. Vinge)
Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

Nominations 1992 »

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Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist
Hugo Award for Best Original Art Work
for the cover of The Summer Queen by Joan D. Vinge

1991


Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

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Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

1990


Nominations 1990 »

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Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist
Hugo Award for Best Original Art Work
for the cover of Paradise by Mike Resnick [Tor, 1989]
Hugo Award for Best Original Art Work
for the cover of The Renegades of Pern by Anne McCaffrey [Ballantine Del Rey, 1989]

1989


Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

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Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

1988


Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist
Hugo Award for Best Related Work
Honored for : Michael Whelan's Works of Wonder

Nominations 1988 »

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Hugo Award for Best Related Work Michael Whelan's Works of Wonder
Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist
Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction Michael Whelan's Works of Wonder

1986


Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

Nominations 1986 »

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Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

1985


Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

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Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

1984


Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

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Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

1983


World Fantasy Award for Best Artist
Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

Nominations 1983 »

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Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

1982


Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist
World Fantasy Award for Best Artist

Nominations 1982 »

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Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

1981


Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist
World Fantasy Award for Best Artist

Nominations 1981 »

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Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

1980


Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

Nominations 1980 »

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Hugo Award for Best Related Work Wonderworks: Science Fiction and Fantasy Art
Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist
Locus Award for Best Art Book Wonderworks: Science Fiction and Fantasy Art

1979


Nominations 1979 »

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Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

1978


Nominations 1978 »

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Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist