This is a list of finalists for the 2018 Archibald Prize for portraiture, listed is Artist – Title.^[1] (As the images are copyright, an external link to an image has been listed where available.)

• Benjamin Aitken – Natasha (Portrait of Natasha Bieniek – Image)
• Del Kathryn Barton – Self-portrait with studio wife
• Jason Benjamin – So you want to come down and the silence of painting (self-portrait)
• Peter Berner – Self-portrait with hindsight
• Amber Boardman – Self-care exhaustion
• Joanna Braithwaite – Hall of fame – portrait of Pat Corrigan
• Jun Chen – Judith Bell
• Yvette Coppersmith – Self-portrait, after George Lambert Winner: Archibald Prize 2018
• Tony Costa – Claudia Chan Shaw
• Jonathan Dalton – Abdul
• David Darcy – Charlotte
• Amanda Davies – Self-portrait
• Blak Douglas – Uncle Roy Kennedy
• Graeme Drendel – Portrait of Michel
• Yvonne East – The Honourable Chief Justice Susan Kiefel AC
• Marc Etherington – Me and Granny
• Marina Finlay – Peter, Coco and Susan O'Doherty
• Prudence Flint – Double
• Andrew Lloyd Greensmith – The serenity of Susan Carland
• David Griggs – The warrior and the prophet
• Melissa Grisancich – Courtney Barnett and her weapon of choice
• Robert Hannaford – Robert Hannaford self-portrait
• Tsering Hannaford – Self-portrait
• Nicholas Harding – Treatment, day 49 (sorbolene soak)
• Amani Haydar – Insert headline here
• Pei Pei He – Portrait of Theodore Wohng
• Paul Jackson – Alison Whyte, a mother of the renaissance
• Kathrin Longhurst – Self: past, present and future
• Mathew Lynn – Gladys Berejiklian
• Alison Mackay – Quid pro quo (portrait of photographer Gary Grealy)
• William Mackinnon – The long apprenticeship
• Euan Macleod – Guy at Jamberoo
• Guy Maestri – The fourth week of parenthood (self-portrait)
• Robert Malherbe – Michael Reid
• India Mark – Candy
• Fiona McMonagle – Sangeeta Sandrasegar
• Julian Meagher – Herb and Flan
• Anne Middleton – Guy (Winner: People's Choice Award 2018)
• Stephanie Monteith – The letter – I really wanted to paint Germaine Greer, but she said 'no' (self-portrait)
• Vincent Namatjira – Studio self-portrait
• Kirsty Neilson – Anxiety still at 30
• Tom Polo – I once thought I'd do anything for you (Joan)
• James Powditch – Narcissist, the anatomy of melancholy
• Jamie Preisz – Jimmy (title fight) Winner: Packing Room Prize 2018
• Jordan Richardson – David Wenham and hat
• Sally Ross – The Huxleys
• Dee Smart – Lunch in the outback
• Ben Smith – Tony
• Loribelle Spirovski – Villains always get the best lines
• Vanessa Stockard – Self-portrait
• Noel Thurgate – Elisabeth Cummings in her studio at Wedderburn, 1974 and 2018
• Angela Tiatia – Study for a self-portrait
• Natasha Walsh – Numb to touch (self-portrait)
• Mirra Whale – Don
• Marcus Wills – Lotte (Portrait of Lotte St Clair)
• Karyn Zamel – Marina Finlay
• Salvatore Zofrea – Sally Dowling SC

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