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Raymond Pettibon is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes.

In 1991, he was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award for which a catalog was produced.

In 2001, the Museum Ludwig named Pettibon the winner of its Wolfgang Hahn Prize.

In 2003, Pettibon was awarded the Grand Prize of Honor for his participation in the 25th Ljubljana International Biennial of Graphic Arts, Slovenia.

For the 2004 Whitney Biennial, Pettibon was invited to create an installation of drawings for the exhibition.

He was awarded the Bucksbaum Award for his installation, the world ’ s largest award given to an individual artist.

( The Bucksbaum Award is awarded every two years and is always given to an artist whose work is displayed in that year ’ s Whitney Biennial.

) As part of the honor, the Whitney Museum organized a solo exhibition that opened in the Fall of 2005, featuring new works and published an artist ’ s book for the occasion.

Most recently, Pettibon was awarded the University of Vienna's Oscar Kokoschka Prize for 2010.

Established by the Austrian government in 1980, following the painter ’ s death, the Kokoschka Prize is awarded to a contemporary artist every two years.