Editing Bridget Riley (section)

==Recognition==
In 1963, Riley was awarded the AICA Critics Prize as well as the John Moores, Liverpool Open Section Prize. A year later, she received a Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Travel bursary. In 1968, she received an International Painting Prize at the [[Venice Biennale]]. In 1974, she was named a [[Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Emipre|Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire]].<ref name=":10">{{cite web|title=Bridget Riley: From Life – National Portrait Gallery|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/business/publications/bridget-riley-from-life.php|access-date=7 March 2021|website=www.npg.org.uk}}</ref> Riley has been given honorary doctorates by [[Oxford University|Oxford]] (1993) and [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]] (1995).<ref>{{cite book|title=Bridget Riley: reconnaissance|last=Cooke|first=Lynne|publisher=Dia Center for the Arts|year=2001|isbn=0-944521-41-X|location=New York|pages=106}}</ref> In 2003, she was awarded the [[Praemium Imperiale]],<ref>Louise Roug (23 October 2003), [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-oct-23-wk-quick23-story.html Five luminaries to receive arts awards] ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''.</ref> and, in 1998, she became one of only 65 [[Order of the Companions of Honour|Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour]] in the Commonwealth.<ref name=":10" /> As a board member of the [[National Gallery]] in the 1980s, she blocked [[Margaret Thatcher]]'s plan to give an adjoining piece of property to developers and thus helped ensure the eventual construction of the museum's [[Sainsbury Wing]].<ref name="nytimes.com"/> Riley has also received the [[Goslarer Kaiserring]] of the city of [[Goslar]] in 2009 and the 12th [[Siegen#The Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen|Rubens Prize]] of [[Siegen]] in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sikkensfoundation.org/en/sikkensprijs/riley.html|title=Sikkens Foundation Biography|access-date=31 October 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140307014011/http://www.sikkensfoundation.org/en/sikkensprijs/riley.html|archive-date=7 March 2014}}</ref> Also in 2012, she became the first woman to receive the {{ill|Sikkens Prize|nl}}, the Dutch art prize recognising the use of colour.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20136187 |title=BBC News – Bridget Riley receives Dutch art prize |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=30 October 2012 |access-date=13 January 2013}}</ref>