| 2014 | Cologne Fine Art Prize, Germany |
| 2014 | Sparda Art Prize NRW, Hasen-Tempel, Recklinghausen, Germany |
| 2013 | JaDe-Prize of the JaDe-Foundation (Japanese-German-Foundation), Cologne, Germany |
| 2009 | August Macke Prize, August Macke Curatorial & HSK Meschede, Germany |
| 2008 | Artist in residence "Casa Aguacate", a Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Artists Residency by the Duncan & LeBaron families of Lincoln, NE, USA |
| 2007 | Iserlohn Art Prize, by the Citizens Foundation of the Savings Bank of Iserlohn, Germany |
| 2002 | Artist in residence, Albers Foundation, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| 2001 | Critics Award for Visual Arts, German Association of Critics, Berlin, Germany |
| 96/98 | ekwc – european ceramic workcentre, ´s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands |
| 1988 | Prize of the Jury, International Trienniale for Original Graphics, Grenchen, Switzerland |
| 83/84 | "Nuernberger Stadtzeichnerin", Artist residency grant by Faber-Castell & Nuremberg |
| 1982 | Art prize of Kaiserswerth, Duesseldorf, Germany |
| Prize of the Fountation for Graphic Art in Switzerland, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland | |
| Second prize of the International Drawings Triennale of the Youth, Nuremberg | |
| 1981 | Grant of the City of Zuerich, Switzerland |
| Art prize of the Kiefer-Hablitzel Foundation, Switzerland |