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
