2005
THE BAUM: AN EMERGING AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER AWARD
Nominee for $10,000 cash award and exhibition of new work at the UC Berkeley Art Museum

1999-2000
SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION
Designer of images for "Assumptions" safe-sex poster and billboard campaign

1999
QUEER ARTS RESOURCE "www.chriskomater.com" selected as featured 'site-of-the-month'

1998
SAN FRANCISCO ARTS COMMISSION MARKET STREET ART-IN-TRANSIT GRANT

1995
WESTAF-NEA REGIONAL VISUAL ARTS FELLOWSHIP; Sculpture

1994
VILLA MONTALVO CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Artist Residency award, Saratoga, California