The prizes and awards were announced yesterday on the Mall Galleries website blog for the 208th RI Online Exhibition, during the coronavirus pandemic of 2020
https://www.mallgalleries.org.uk/about-us/blog?field_blog_category_tid=32
The winners are as follows:
| Award | Winner | Work |
| The Winsor & Newton Award (£3,000) | George Butler | Delhi Market (61) |
| The Winsor & Newton Product Prize | Day Bowman | Storage Facility 2 (55) |
| The ArtsBox Solo Prize | N/A | N/A |
| The Leathersellers’ Prize | Suzon Lagarde | Suzy (228) |
| The Matt Bruce RI Memorial Award | N/A | N/A |
| The James Fletcher-Watson RI Award | David Howell PPRSMA | The Ghats at Udaipur (197) |
| The Baohong Artists’ Watercolour Paper Prize for a Member | Lillias August RI | Tied Up in Knots (9) |
| The Baohong Artists’ Watercolour Paper Prize for a Non-member | Juliette Losq | Aisle (244) |
| The Cass Art Prize | Martha Zmpounou | Christian (444) |
| The Chaoshan Watercolour Award | Tianya Zhou RI | Prayers (438) |
| The Dry Red Press Award | Desmond Clark | Kid in a Sweetshop (87) |
| The Escoda Barcelona Award | Brendan Smith | Sunset, Ventnor (356) |
| The Megan Fitzoliver Brush Award | Deborah Walker RI RSMA | Be Still (408) |
| The Frank Herring Easel Award | Alex Chilvers | London Fields Lido (85) |
| The Anthony J Lester Art Critic Award | Claire Sparkes RI | The Seed That Loki Planted (369) |
| The Debra Manifold RI Memorial Award | Lisa Graa Jensen RI | Deep Midwinter (158) |
| The Neil Meacher RI Watercolour Award | Geoff Butterworth | A Day Like Any Other (65) |
| The Richard Plincke RI Prize for Colour | Paul Murray | Winter Memorials (262) |
| The President’s Choice Award | Lucy Pulvers | Self-Portrait 1 (307) |
| The John Purcell Paper Prize | Faye Bridgwater | 140 Monochrome Studies of Sussex (59) |
| The Schmincke Prize | Emma Hollaway | Found Paintings 2.1 (195) |