This is a list of finalists for the 2003 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – Title).

Finalists

• Davida Allen – Philip Bacon, art dealer; reading a letter from Barry...
• Rick Amor – Portrait of Lewis Miller
• Danelle Bergstrom – Conversation with Margaret Olley
• Warren Breninger – Self-portrait
• Peter Churcher – Loti and Victor Smorgon
• Kevin Connor – Self-portrait
• Adam Cullen – Jimmy Little
• Lucy Culliton – Self with subject (cock)
• Geoffrey Dyer – Richard Flanagan (Winner: Archibald Prize 2003)
• Martine Emdur – Claudia Karvan, Interior
• David Fairbairn – Auto portrait DF
• Julie Fragar – J. Lucy in quinachridone magenta
• Robert Hannaford – Rabbi Apple
• Nicholas Harding – Portrait of Margaret Whitlam A.O.
• Ray Lawrence – Self
• Mathew Lynn – Hetti Perkins
• Lewis Miller – Hazel
• Henry Mulholland – Dr Peter Elliott at home
• David Naseby – Adam Cullen
• Paul Procèe – PCD 2K03 (from the Faces series)
• Jenny Sages – True Stories – Helen Garner
• Ian Smith – Ray Hughes having pre-dinner drinks with Ambroise Vollard...
• Nick Stathopoulos – Here's Mr. Squiggle
• Andrew Sullivan – The forgotten soldier
• Branca Uzur – Sandra Levy
• Ilya Volykhine – Coffee with Ken Unsworth
• John R Walker – John Wolseley
• Greg Warburton – Self portrait in Da Vinci T-Shirt
• Jan Williamson – Rachel Ward (Winner: Packing Room Prize 2003)
• Susan Wyatt – Doris Pilkington (Nugi Garimarra)
• Huihai Xie – Bannerman
• Dalu Zhao – 'Lao Fei' Stephen Fitzgerald (Winner: People's Choice 2003)