The AIAH Art History Research Grants were open to an art historian or PhD student in Art History in one of the following categories:
- Institutional art historian (i.e. working in an academic or cultural institution such as a university, art museum, public library)
- Independent art historian
- Emerging art historian (PhD student or Early Career Researcher in Art History, i.e. PhD granted no earlier than 2015)
- Indigenous Australian, New Zealand Maori or Pasifika art historian
$5,000 per recipient will be awarded, sponsored Australian Institute of Art History Research Grant Recipients
Judges Professor Anne Dunlop, Associate Professor David Hansen, Associate Professor Joanna Mendelssohn
Recipients for 2021 are:
Institutional
Angela Goddard, Griffith University Art Museum
Richard Bell: Embassy
Institutional
Lisa Mansfield, University of Adelaide
Leonardo of the North: the polymathic creativity of Jan van Scorel
Independent
Alisa Bunbury
Falling Water: theBirrarung and early Melbourne
Emerging
Victoria Wynne-Jones, University of Auckland
Unexpected actions: spontaneity and metastability in contemporary performance art
Emerging
Tets Kimura, Flinders University
Presentation of Japanese Aesthetics and the representation of the WW11 memories at the Cowra Japanese Garden in regional NSW
Indigenous Australian
Brenda L Croft, Australian National University
Reimagining the North Australian Expedition 1855-56