Faith Ringgold is the recipient of over 80 awards and honors including:
The Creative Artists Public Service Award for painting, 1971
The American Association of University Women for travel to West Africa, 1976
The National Endowment for the Arts Award for sculpture in 1978 and for painting in 1988
The Candace Award National Coalition of 100 Black Women, 1984
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for painting, 1987
The New York Foundation for Arts Award for painting, 1988
National Endowment for the Arts Award for Painting (NEA), Washington, D.C. 1989
Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1989
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Award, Baltimore, Maryland, 1989
The La Napoule Foundation Award for painting in France, 1990
Annual Youth Friends Award, School Arts League, New York, 1990
LaNapoule Foundation Award, LaNapoule, France. 1990
The Studio Museum in Harlem, Honors the Artist of the Year, 1991
Tar Beach wins many awards: School Library Journal, Library of Congress, Sesame Street, Parents Magazine, New York Times, California Children’s Book, Video and Software Award, Publishers Weekly, Parents Choice 1991
Caldecott Honor Book: Tar Beach, 1992
Coretta Scott King Award for illustration: Tar Beach, 1992
Jane Addams Peace Association Picture Book Award for Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky, November 9, 1993
Faith Ringgold Day, Proclamation – Office of the Mayor City of Newark, NJ, March 28, 1993
Women’s Caucus for the Arts Honors Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Visual Arts, Queens Museum, NY, 1994
Women’s Caucus for Art Honor Awards Exhibition, 1994
Annual, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, New York, January 25, 1994
Invitation to the White House for the 75th Anniversary of the Women’s Bureau, May 19, 1995
Townsend Harris Medal City College of NY Alum Assoc 1995
Spirit of Woman Award presented by the National Museum of Women of the Arts, Washington, DC, May 22, 1996
Arts Person of the Year, The New Jersey Center 1997
Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice Award for 1997/1998
Key to the City of Oakland presented at the Berkeley Art Museum at the opening of Faith Ringgold’s Dancing at the Louvre… May 8, 1998
Pro Choice Activist Award, NARAL April 30,1998
Banks Street, May 27, 1999
City Arts Award, June 14, 1999
Art alliance (Scholastic) April 13, 1999
NAACP Image Award for Children’s Book If a Bus Could Talk, 1999
The African American Art Advisory Association of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas for Artistic contribution to American culture, April 1, 2000
The Dedicators Award 10/27/01
California Art Educators Association Living Artists Award, 2002
National Visionary Leadership Project, 2004
The American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, 2004
Moore College of Art and Design’s Visionary Women Award, 2005
Amistad Center for Art & Culture Presidents Award Oct. 15, 2005
James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art Honoree Howard University, Washington, DC, 2006
Teacher of the Year, NYC Teachers Association, October 28, 2006
Harlem Arts Alliance Golden Legacy Visual Arts Award, February 5, 2006
Wisdom Award, National Visionary Leadership Program The intergenerational Summit on the State of Black America at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 2007
Nubian Women Art Circle Award, November 2, 2007
Celebration of Leadership Award Wives of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Washington, D.C., September 26, 2007
National Women’s History Project, Women’s Art: Women’s Vision,
AIR Gallery, March 28, 2008
Artists Fellowship Award, October 15, 2014
Medal of Honor for Fine Arts, National Arts Club, January 19, 2017
Faith Ringgold has been awarded the following 23 Honorary Doctorates
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1986
The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH, 1987
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, 1991
The City College, The City University of New York, NY, 1991
State University of New York, State University College at Brockport, NY, May 17,1992
California College of Arts and Crafts, 1993
Rhode Island School of Design, June 4, 1994
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, May 14, 1996
Russell Sage College, Troy, NY, September 26, 1996
Wheelock College, Boston, MA May 16, 1997
Molloy College, Rockville Center, NY, May 17. 1997
Bank Street College of Education, University of the State of New York, May 27, 1999
Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY, June 8, 1999
Marygrove College, Detroit, MI, May 13, 2000
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 19, 2001
The William Paterson University of New Jersey, May 15, 2001
Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, CT, May 23, 2004
Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ, May 26, 2005
Lafayette College, Easton, PA, May 2007
Royal College of Art, London, England, April 2013