Nakian, 1980  ©Lois Dreyer

Awards & Honors

1983
Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture
1979
Award for Excellence in Sculpture, Connecticut Commission on the Arts
President’s Fellow Award, Rhode Island School of Design
1977
Brandeis University Creative Arts Award
1973                       
Award of Merit Medal for Sculpture, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
1972
Honorary Doctorate, University of Bridgeport
1969                       
Honorary Doctorate, University of Nebraska
1968
U.S. Representative, Venice Biennale
1967
Gold Medal, Philadelphia College of Art
1965
White House Festival of the Arts, Invitational Exhibition, Washington, D.C
Sculptures de XXe Siècle, Museé Rodin, Paris; West Germany, Mexico
1963
Open Air Exhibition of British and American Work, Battersea Park, London
1961
U.S. Representative, VI Bienal, São Paulo, Brazil
1958
Ford Foundation Fellowship
1938
Trois Siècles d’Art aux Etats-Unis, Museé de Jeu de Paume, Paris
1933
Official Portraitist, Roosevelt Administration
1931-32
Guggenheim Fellowship
1922-28
Whitney Studio Club Fellowship
1919
Tiffany Foundation Farm Fellowship, Oyster Bay, NY