Awards
- 1982 Red Ribbon Award for Short Fiction
- 1986 Market Theatre Award for New Vision exhibition
- 1986 AA vita Award at Cassirer fine Art
- 1987 Standard Bank Young Artist Award
- 1992 Woyzeck on the Highveld awards for production, set design & direction
- 1994 Loerie Award memo
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- 2003 Goslar Kaiserring
- 2004 Carnegie Medal
- 2004 Honorary Doctor of Literature from the University of the Witwatersrand
- 2006 Jesse L Rosenberger Medal from the University of Chicago
- 2010 Kyoto Prize
- 2012 Dan David Prize
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Kentridge's Five Themes exhibit was included in the 2009 Time 100, an annual list of the one hundred top people and events in the world. That same year, the exhibition was awarded First Place in the 2009 AICA (International Association of Art Critics Awards) Best Monographic Museum Show Nationally category.