MacAgy & Honorary Doctorate Recipients, 1974-2018 Kehinde Wiley – 2018 Honorary Doctorate Mildred Howard – 2018 MacAgy Award Enrique Chagoya – 2017 Honorary Doctorate René Yañez – 2017 MacAgy Award Linda Nochlin – 2016 Honorary Doctorate Ron Nagle – 2016 Honorary Doctorate Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture – 2016 MacAgy Award (accepted by Rich Hillis/Mark Tao) Theaster Gates – 2015 Honorary Doctorate Neal Benezra and SFMOMA – 2015 MacAgy Award Jack Whitten – 2014 Honorary Doctorate Rebecca Solnit – 2014 MacAgy Award Kathryn Bigelow – 2013 Honorary Doctorate Paul Schimmel – 2013 Honorary Doctorate Roberta Smith – 2012 Honorary Doctorate Lawrence Ferlinghetti – 2012 MacAgy Award David Goldblatt – 2011 Honorary Doctorate Paul Sack – 2011 MacAgy Award Huang Yong Ping – 2010 Honorary Doctorate Nalini Malani – 2010 Honorary Doctorate Ruth Braunstein – 2010 MacAgy Award Graciela Iturbide – 2009 Honorary Doctorate Ed Ruscha – 2009 Honorary Doctorate Thelma Golden – 2008 Honorary Doctorate Hans Haacke – 2008 Honorary Doctorate Joan Jonas – 2007 Honorary Doctorate Kynaston McShine – 2007 Honorary Doctorate Stuart Hall – 2007 Honorary Doctorate Suzanne Ghez – 2006 Honorary Doctorate Doris Salcedo – 2006 Honorary Doctorate David Robinson – 2006 MacAgy Award Cildo Meireles – 2005 Honorary Doctorate Marion E. Greene – 2005 MacAgy Award Charles Burnett – 2004 Honorary Doctorate Pirkle Jones – 2003 Honorary Doctorate Anna Halprin – 2003 Honorary Doctorate Lawrence Halprin – 2003 Honorary Doctorate SF Cinematheque – 2002 MacAgy Award Alanna Heiss – 2001 Honorary Doctorate Michael Craig-Martin – 2001 Honorary Doctorate René Francisco Rodriguez – 2001 Honorary Doctorate Don Ed Hardy – 2000 Honorary Doctorate Elizabeth Murray – 2000 Honorary Doctorate David Ireland – 1999 Honorary Doctorate Meredith Monk – 1999 Honorary Doctorate Kitty Carlisle Hart – 1999 MacAgy Award William E. Strickland, Jr. – 1998 Honorary Doctorate Steina & Woody Vasulka – 1998 Honorary Doctorate The Names Project – 1998 MacAgy Award Ruth Asawa – 1997 Honorary Doctorate Lewis Hyde – 1997 Honorary Doctorate Rene di Rosa – 1997 Honorary Doctorate Donald Kuspit – 1996 Honorary Doctorate Guerilla Girls – 1996 MacAgy Award bell hooks – 1995 Honorary Doctorate Jack Lane – 1995 Honorary Doctorate Nathan Oliveira – 1995 Honorary Doctorate Robert Colescott – 1994 Honorary Doctorate Moira Roth – 1994 Honorary Doctorate Annie Leibovitz – 1993 Honorary Doctorate Rupert Garcia – 1993 Honorary Doctorate Karen Finley – 1992 Honorary Doctorate Betye Saar – 1992 Honorary Doctorate Hassel Smith – 1991 Honorary Doctorate James Elliot – 1991 Honorary Doctorate Ann Hatch – 1991 Honorary Doctorate Kathan Brown – 1990 Honorary Doctorate Manuel Neri – 1990 Honorary Doctorate Bruce Nauman – 1989 Honorary Doctorate Phyllis Wattis – 1989 Honorary Doctorate Cecile McCann – 1989 Honorary Doctorate Wayne Thiebaud – 1988 Honorary Doctorate Roselyne C. Swig – 1988 Honorary Doctorate Richard Shaw – 1988 Honorary Doctorate Robert Arneson – 1987 Honorary Doctorate Henry Hopkins – 1987 Honorary Doctorate Bruce Conner – 1986 Honorary Doctorate Joan Brown – 1986 Honorary Doctorate David Hockney – 1985 Honorary Doctorate Elmer Bischoff – 1985 Honorary Doctorate Lucy Lippard – 1985 Honorary Doctorate James Broughton – 1984 Honorary Doctorate Sally Lilienthal – 1984 Honorary Doctorate James Melchert – 1984 Honorary Doctorate Roy DeForest – 1983 Honorary Doctorate Marcia Tucker – 1983 Honorary Doctorate Jay DeFeo – 1982 Honorary Doctorate Joan Mondale – 1982 Honorary Doctorate Peter Voulkos – 1982 Honorary Doctorate Stan Brakhage – 1981 Honorary Doctorate Ninfa Valvo – 1981 Honorary Doctorate Laurie Anderson – 1980 Honorary Doctorate William Wiley – 1980 Honorary Doctorate Ansel Adams – 1979 Honorary Doctorate John Collier – 1978 Honorary Doctorate Robert Irwin – 1978 Honorary Doctorate Robert Howard – 1977 Honorary Doctorate Clyfford Still – 1976 Honorary Doctorate Minor White – 1976 Honorary Doctorate Richard Diebenkorn – 1975 Honorary Doctorate Lynwood Dunn – 1975 Honorary Doctorate Ted Eliot – 1974 Honorary Doctorate .