This is a list of finalists for the 2017 Archibald Prize for portraiture.^[1] As the images are copyright, an external link to an image has been listed where available (listed is Artist – Title).

• Tony Albert – Self-portrait (ash on me)
• Jessica Ashton – Self-portrait as a clown
• Kate Beynon – With amulets and their shadows (Self-portrait)
• Andrew Bonneau – Portrait of Ayako Saito
• Boys of Sydney Grammar Edgecliff Preparatory School – Goodbye, Sir! (Portrait of Dr John Vallance)
• Keith Burt – Bare Tarragh (Portrait of Tarragh Cunningham)
• Mitch Cairns – Agatha Gothe-Snape (Winner of the Archibald Prize 2017)
• Jon Campbell – Two sunny boys (Peter Oxley and Jeremy Oxley)
• Jun Chen – Ray Hughes
• Yvette Coppersmith – Professor Gillian Triggs
• Tony Costa – Simon Chan
• Lucy Culliton – Finished packing (Portrait of Steve Peters)
• Jonathan Dalton – Lottie and James (Portrait of Lottie Consalvo and James Drinkwater)
• Anh Do – JC (Portrait of Jack Charles) (Winner of the People's Choice Award 2017) (Image)
• Marc Etherington – Paul (Paul Williams in his studio)
• Prudence Flint – The meal (Portrait of Athena Bellas)
• Ashley Frost – Janet Dawson at the doorway to her studio
• Andrew Lloyd Greensmith – The inner stillness of Eileen Kramer
• David Griggs – Twisting Cain with a brown eye while lacking a constitution for darkness (Self-portrait)
• Robert Hannaford – Michael Chaney
• Tsering Hannaford – Self-portrait
• Nicholas Harding – John Olsen AO, OBE
• Sophia Hewson – Untitled (Richard Bell)
• Tjungkara Ken – Kungkarangkalpa tjukurpa (Seven Sisters dreaming), a self-portrait
• Julius Killerby – Paul Little
• Kim Leutwyler – Heyman (Portrait of Michelle Heyman)
• Richard Lewer – Liz Laverty
• Luke, William H – Remy QC (Portrait of Remy van de Wiel)
• Robert Malherbe – Self-portrait
• Phil Meatchem – Aah yeah, that guy (Portrait of Francis Greenslade)
• Vincent Namatjira – Self-portrait on Friday
• Paul Newton – Portrait of Rupert Myer AO
• Jordan Richardson – John (Portrait of John Bell)
• Dee Smart – The mayor of Bondi (Portrait of John Macarthur)
• Peter Smeeth – Lisa Wilkinson AM (Winner of the Packing Room Prize 2017) (Image)
• Gerard Smith – Elizabeth St over Hyde Park (Portrait of Helen Littleton)
• Loribelle Spirovski – John Bell at home
• Vanessa Stockard – Self-portrait as new mum
• Noel Thurgate – Homage to Peter Powditch
• Natasha Walsh – The scent of rain (self-portrait)
• what – Robert Forster
• Marcus Wills – Protagonist, antagonist (Thomas M Wright)
• Madeleine Winch – Facing the canvas (Self-portrait)