1996 Laureates
Visual Arts
- Subodh Gupta (India)
Gasworks Studios (United Kingdom) - Miguel Ramírez (Dominican Republic)
European Ceramics Centre (Netherlands) - Oscar Abraham Vargas Calderon (Mexico)
Sanskriti Kendra (India) - Po-Lun Wei (China)
Edinburgh College of Arts (United Kingdom) - Thasnai Sethaseree (Thailand)
Ucross Foundation (United States) - Sylvie Tachdjian (France)
C.R.I.C. Gaza (Palestine) - Lisa Marie Mendes (Trinidad and Tobago)
The Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada) - Shibu Natesan (India)
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (The Netherlands) - Steve Ouditt (Trinidad and Tobago)
Master of Arts degree in the History of Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London (United Kingdom) - Nicolaas Wynand Hofmeyr (South Africa)
Afrique en Création (Nigeria/Ghana) - Abdel Aziz Ishag Mohammed (Sudan)
International Institute of Boston (United States) - I Jayachandran (India)
Gasworks Studios (United Kingdom) - Antonio Luís Jorge Gumbe (Angola)
Cooperativa des actividades artisticas Arvore (Portugal) - Inessa Kouteinikova (Russian Federation)
Jan Van Eyck Akademie (Netherlands) - Tereza Langerova (Slovakia)
National College of Art (Pakistan) - Aleksandra Giza (Poland)
Jan Van Eyck Akademie (Netherlands) - Luís Enrique Gonzalez Real (Venezuela)
Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) - Cyril Cholakov (Bulgaria)
Albe Steiner Centre (Italy) - Dragan Dragin (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- Marija Dujimovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Sigma Consult (Germany) - R. Guillermo De Yavorsky (Venezuela)
Bartel Arts Trust (South Africa) - María Dolores Díaz Reinoso (Ecuador)
Center for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts – CAIIA (United Kingdom) - Pemeyeke Désiré-Marie dit Mboko Lagriffe (Cameroon)
Afrique en Création (Senegal)
Creative Writing
- Juan Tomás Avila Laurel (Equatorial Guinea)
C.R.I.C (Nicaragua) - Melvina Hazard (Trinidad and Tobago)
East Midlands Arts Board (United Kingdom) - Mariano Alejo Pensotti (Argentina)
Fattoria La Loggia (Italy) - Rafal Witek (Poland)
Sanskriti Kendra (India) - Marie-Léontine Tsibinda (Congo)
Radio France Internationale (France) - Louis-Philippe Dalembert (Haiti)
Mishkenot Sha’ Ananim (Israel) - José Miguel Vivas (Venezuela)
Fattoria La Loggia (Italy) - Russell Watson (Barbados)
East Midlands Arts Board (United Kingdom)
Music
- Mostapha Attar (Morocco)
Arts International (United States) - Fabian Gustavo Duran Suarez (Ecuador)
Instituto Superior de Arte (Cuba) - Nascuy Linares Freites (Venezuela)
Virginia Centre for Creative Arts (United States) - Dhananpakion Singaravaloo (Mauritius)
Vijnana Kala Vedi (India) - Huy Truong Quang (Viet Nam)
The Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada)
Dance
- Evandro Xavier Dos Passos (Brazil)
Ensemble DJOLEM (Côte d’Ivoire) - Luis Eduardo Guanotoa Calispa (Ecuador)
C.R.I.C. (Mexico) - Ranjabati Sircar (India)
Espace Sobo Bade (Senegal) - Rotislav Sorokin (Russian Federation)
Associazione Balletto Classico (Italy) - Aime Dinayen Selamo (Cameroon)
Arts International (United States)
Performing Arts
- Carlos Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso)
Teatro do Oprimido (Brazil)