Awards & Winners

Sebastian Smee

Sebastian Smee is an Australian Pulitzer Prize-winning arts critic for The Boston Globe. Educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide, Smee graduated from the University of Sydney with an Honours degree in Fine Art in 1994 and moved to Boston in 2008, having also lived in the United Kingdom between 2001 and 2004. Prior to joining the Boston Globe he was national art critic for The Australian and has also worked for The Daily Telegraph and contributed to The Guardian, The Times, The Financial Times, The Independent on Sunday, The Art Newspaper, Modern Painters, Prospect magazine and The Spectator. Smee is the author of the books Lucian Freud and Side by Side: Picasso v Matisse. He won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his "vivid and exuberant writing about art, often bringing great works to life with love and appreciation".

Awards by Sebastian Smee

Check all the awards nominated and won by Sebastian Smee.

2011


Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
(For his vivid and exuberant writing about art, often bringing great works to life with love and appreciation.)

Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
For his vivid and exuberant writing about art, often bringing great works to life with love and appreciation.

2009


Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
For his fresh, accessible and energetic reviews on the New England art scene, creating for readers a sense of discovery even as he provides discerning analysis.