1996 : CAA Artist Award for Distinguished Body of Work, College Art Association, New York, NY

1996 : Second Prize, 1996 United States Chapter of the International Association of Art Critics Awards, Best Video or Installation, "Gary Hill: Withershins" at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

1995 : Leone d'Oro, Prize for Sculpture, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 

1995 : First Prize, 1994-95 AICA (International Association of Art Critics) Best Show Awards, Best Video Show or Installation, "Gary Hill", at the Guggenheim SoHo, New York, organized by the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 

1991 : Prize Winner, "ARTEC 91" International Biennale, Nagoya, Japan 

1989 : Prize Winner (Performance Video), 13th Atlanta Film/Video Festival, Atlanta, GA 

1988 : Grand Prix, World Wide Video Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands 

1988 : Honorable Mention, 3rd Bonn Video Art Festival, Bonn, Germany 

1988 : Prix Alcan (video), 18th Annual Montreal Film and Video Festival, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 

1987 : 1st Prize, Structuralist Video, Athens International Video Festival, Athens, OH 

1987 : Grand Prize, 6th Annual Daniel Wadsworth Video Festival, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT 

1986 : 1st Prize (shared), Narrative Video, Athens International Video Festival, Athens, OH 

1986 : James D. Phelan Art Award, San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco, CA 

1986 : Honorable Mention (Non-Narrative Video), Video Culture International, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

1985 : Grand Prix (shared), 1st Tokyo International Video Biennale, Tokyo, Japan 

1985 : Sony Grand Prize, 3/4 Inch Video/New Media, Video Culture International, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 

1985 : 1st Prize, Art Video/New Media, Video Culture International, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 

1985 : 1st Prize, 3/4 Inch Non-Narrative Art Video/New Media, Video Culture International, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 

1983 : 1st Prize (shared), San Sebastian International Video Festival, San Sebastion, Spain 

1983 : Merit Award, Chicago International Film/Video Festival, Chicago, IL 

1982 : 2nd Prize, Video Art, United States Film/Video Festival, Salt Lake City, UT 

1981 : The Video Art Award, 3rd Annual Daniel Wadsworth Memorial Video Festival, Hartford, CT 

1978 : Merit Award, Experimental Video, Athens International Video Festival, Athens, OH 

1976 : Merit Award, Experimental Video, Athens International Video Festival, Athens, OH