- Tuition scholarship, Saskatchewan Arts Board, Regina, SK, for the University of Saskatchewan Summer School, 1955
- Recognition Award, Saskatchewan Arts Board Spring Exhibition, 1958
- Scholarship, Institute Allende, San Miguel, Mexico, 1958
- Canada Council Arts Scholarship, 1960
- Canada Council Senior Grant, 1969
- National Endowment for the Arts (unsolicited), 1969
- Second Prize, Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil, 1969
- Allied Arts Medal, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, 1977
- Aviation & Space Writers Award, 1979
- Order of Canada, 2000
- Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Grant Award for Lifetime Achievement, 2018