List of Archibald Prize 2016 finalists
- Clara Adolphs – Terry Serio
- Benjamin Aitken – Portrait of mentor
- Tony Albert – Tony Albert
- Danelle Bergstrom – Guy Warren
- Kate Beynon – Claudia, Spartacus and the robots
- Natasha Bieniek – Wendy Whiteley
- Chris Bond – The restless dead
- Dean Brown – McLean Edwards
- Chris Browne – Krista Brennan
- Daniel Butterworth – Annie Smithers
- Yvette Coppersmith – Rose Burn self-portrait
- Lucy Culliton – Lucy and fans
- Sinead Davies – Toni Zeltzer
- Camillo De Luca – Polymath
- Marc Etherington – King Ken
- David Fairbairn – Large head JL no 3
- Betina Fauvel-Ogden – George Calombaris, masterchef '
- Carla Fletcher – Twin souls, Linda Jackson
- Prudence Flint – Shower
- Juan Ford – Regaining sight
- David Griggs – It's a G thang
- Guan Wei – Plastic surgery
- Tsering Hannaford – Self-portrait with magnolia
- Nicholas Harding – Peter Weiss AO
- Louise Hearman – Barry '
- Belynda Henry – Louise Olsen, a beautiful summary
- Mark Horton – Troy
- Alan Jones – Pat
- Guy Maestri – Shattered
- Dean Manning – Maximum Lawrence
- Marie Mansfield – Study of Euan Macleod
- India Mark – Day at the gallery with Dane Taylor
- Michael McWilliams – The usurpers
- Lewis Miller – Portrait of Bernie Teague
- Nick Mourtzakis – Self-portrait: in violet
- Kirsty Neilson – There's no humour in darkness
- William Rhodes – Alice
- Melissa Ritchie – Rhys smart mouth
- Monica Rohan – Easton Pearson
- Sally Ross – Roslyn
- Marikit Santiago – Blacklustre
- Nick Stathopoulos – Deng
- Imants Tillers – Double reality 2014–2016
- Rosemary Valadon – The Scribbler
- Natasha Walsh – Self-portrait
- Peter Wegner – John Wolseley
- Mirra Whale – Philip Nitschke
- Marcus Wills – The ersatz
- Heidi Yardley – Birth/death – portrait of Nell
- Zoe Young – Sam Harris