Whitney Biennial 2026
Opens Mar 8
The eighty-second edition of the Whitney Biennial—the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States—features work of 56 artists, duos, and collectives that reflects the current moment and examines various forms of relationality, including interspecies kinships, familial relations, geopolitical entanglements, technological affinities, shared mythologies, and infrastructural supports.
Whitney Biennial 2026 offers a vivid atmospheric survey of contemporary American art shaped by a moment of profound transition. Rather than offering a definitive answer to life today, this Whitney Biennial foregrounds mood and texture, inviting visitors into environments that evoke tension, tenderness, humor, and unease. Together, the works capture the complexity of the present and propose imaginative, unruly, and unexpected forms of coexistence.
Whitney Biennial 2026 is co-organized by Whitney curators Marcela Guerrero, the DeMartini Family Curator, and Drew Sawyer, the Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography with Beatriz Cifuentes, Biennial Curatorial Assistant, and Carina Martinez, Rubio Butterfield Family Fellow.
Leadership support for the 2026 Whitney Biennial is provided by David Cancel, and Stephanie March and Dan Benton.
Major support is provided by the Adam D. Weinberg Artists First Fund; Marcia Dunn and Jonathan Sobel; The Holly Peterson Foundation; the Kapadia Equity Fund; The KHR McNeely Family Foundation | Kevin, Rosemary, and Hannah Rose McNeely; and the Whitney’s National Committee.
Significant support is provided by Sotheby’s.
2026 Biennial Committee Co-Chairs: Sarah Arison, Paul Arnhold and Wes Gordon, Suzanne and Bob Cochran, Salvador Espinoza and Jonathan Rozoff, Amanda and Glenn Fuhrman, Further Forward Foundation, Becky Gochman, Christina Hribar, Stephanie and Tim Ingrassia, Peter H. Kahng, Deepa Kumaraiah and Sean Dempsey, Miyoung Lee and Neil Simpkins, Dawn and David Lenhardt, Sueyun and Gene Locks, George Petrocheilos and Diamantis Xylas, Nancy and Fred Poses, Dr. Jan Siegmund and Dr. Benjamin Maddox, Ron and Ann Pizzuti, Jackson Tang, Teresa Tsai, and Todd White and Cameron Carani.
2026 Biennial Committee: Shelley Fox Aarons and Philip Aarons; Susan and Matthew Blank; Estrellita and Daniel Brodsky; James Keith Brown and Eric Diefenbach; Yolanda Colón-Greenberg and Craig Greenberg; Stephen Dull; Charlotte Feng Ford; Christy and Bill Gautreaux; Elaine Goldman and John Benis; Grace Gould and Jonathan Goldberg; Marieluise Hessel; Judelson Family Foundation; Michèle Gerber Klein; Gina Feldman Love and Steven Feldman; Joel Lubin; Bernard I. Lumpkin and Carmine D. Boccuzzi; Marc S. Solomon, Cindy Levine & Interlaken LLC; The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation; Jamie Watson in memory of Emmett Watson; George Wells and Manfred Rantner; Casey and Lauren Weyand; and an anonymous donor.
Generous support is provided by The James Howell Foundation, The Keith Haring Foundation Exhibition Fund and the Trellis Art Fund.
Biennial funding is also provided by endowments created by Emily Fisher Landau, Leonard A. Lauder, and Fern and Lenard Tessler.
Curatorial research and travel for this exhibition were funded by an endowment established by Rosina Lee Yue and Bert A. Lies, Jr., MD.
Support is also provided by the Marshall Weinberg Fund for Performance, endowed in honor of his parents Anna and Harold Weinberg who taught him the meaning of giving.
The Whitney Biennial and Hyundai Terrace Commission are a multiyear partnership with Hyundai Motor. The Hyundai Terrace Commission is an annual site-specific installation on the Whitney Museum’s fifth-floor outdoor gallery.
Artist List
Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme
Basel Abbas (he/him)
Born 1983 in Nicosia, Cyprus
Ruanne Abou-Rahme (she/her)
Born 1983 in Boston, MA
Live in Brooklyn, NY and Palestine
Kelly Akashi
Born 1983 in Los Angeles, CA
Lives in Altadena, CA
Kamrooz Aram (he/him)
Born 1978 in Shiraz, Iran
Lives in New York, NY
Ash Arder (she/they)
Born 1988 in Muscatawing (Flint, MI)
Lives in Waawiyatanong (Detroit, MI)
Teresa Baker (she/her)
Born 1985 in Mandan/Hidatsa
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Sula Bermudez-Silverman (she/her)
Born 1993 in New York, NY
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Zach Blas (he/him)
Born 1981 in Point Pleasant, WV
Lives in Toronto, Canada
Enzo Camacho & Ami Lien
Enzo Camacho (they/them)
Born 1985 in Manila, Philippines
Ami Lien (they/them)
Born 1987 in Dallas, TX
Live in Berlin, Germany and New York, NY
Leo Castañeda (he/him)
Born 1988 in Cali, Colombia
Lives in Miami, FL
CFGNY (Daniel Chew, Ten Izu, Kirsten Kilponen, and Tin Nguyen)
Founded 2016
Based in Brooklyn, NY
Nani Chacon (she/her)
Born 1980 in Gallup, NM
Lives in Albuquerque, NM
Navajo Nation
Maia Chao (she/her)
Born 1991 in Providence, RI
Lives in Philadelphia, PA
Joshua Citarella (he/him)
Born 1987 in New York, NY
Lives in New York, NY
Mo Costello (she/her)
Born 1989 in Seattle, WA
Lives in Athens, GA
Taína H. Cruz (she/her)
Born 1998 in New York, NY
Lives in New Haven, CT
Carmen de Monteflores (she/they)
Born 1933 in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Lives in Berkeley, CA
Ali Eyal (he/him)
Born 1994 in Baghdad, Iraq
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Andrea Fraser (she/her)
Born 1965 in Billings, MT
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Mariah Garnett (she/they)
Born 1980 in Portland, ME
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Ignacio Gatica
Born 1988 in Santiago, Chile
Lives in New York, NY and Santiago, Chile
Jonathan González (they/them)
Born 1991 in Queens, NY
Lives in New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA
Emilie Louise Gossiaux (they/them)
Born 1989 in New Orleans, LA
Lives in New York, NY
Kainoa Gruspe (he/him)
Born 1995 in Louisville, KY
Lives in Honolulu, HI
Martine Gutierrez (she/her)
Born 1989 in Berkeley, CA
Lives in New York, NY
Samia Halaby (she/her)
Born 1936 in Palestine
Lives in New York, NY
Raven Halfmoon (she/her)
Born 1991 in Oklahoma City, OK
Lives in Norman, OK
Caddo Nation
Nile Harris with Dyer Rhoads
Nile Harris (he/him)
Born 1995 in Miami, FL
Dyer Rhoads (he/him)
Born 1996 in Portland, ME
Live in Brooklyn, NY
Aziz Hazara (he/him)
Born 1992 in Wardak, Afghanistan
Lives in Berlin, Germany
Margaret Honda (she/her)
Born 1961 in San Diego, CA
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Akira Ikezoe (he/him)
Born 1979 in Kochi, Japan
Lives in New York, NY
Mao Ishikawa (she/her)
Born 1953 in Okinawa under US Administration
Lives in Okinawa, Japan
Cooper Jacoby (he/him)
Born 1989 in Princeton, NJ
Lives in Miami, FL and Paris, France
David L. Johnson (he/him)
Born 1993 in New York, NY
Lives in New York, NY
kekahi wahi (Sancia Miala Shiba Nash and Drew K. Broderick)
Founded 2020
Based in Honolulu, Kona, Oʻahu, HI
Young Joon Kwak (they/them)
Born 1984 in Queens, NY
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Michelle Lopez (she/her)
Born 1970 in Bridgeport, CT
Lives in Philadelphia, PA
José Maceda (he/him)
Born 1917 in Manila, Philippines
Died 2004 in Quezon City, Philippines
Agosto Machado (he/him)
Born in New York, NY
Lives in New York, NY
Oswaldo Maciá (he/him)
Born 1960 in Cartegena de Indias, Colombia
Lives in Santa Fe, NM and London, United Kingdom
Emilio Martínez Poppe (he/him)
Born 1993 in Baltimore, MD
Lives in New York, NY
Isabelle Frances McGuire (she/her)
Born 1994 in Austin, TX
Lives in Chicago, IL
Kimowan Metchewais (he/him)
Born 1963 in Oxbow, SK, Canada
Died 2011 in Saint Paul, AB, Canada
Cree, Cold Lake First Nations
Nour Mobarak (she/her)
Born 1985 in Cairo, Egypt
Lives in Athens, Greece and Bainbridge Island, WA
Erin Jane Nelson (she/her)
Born 1989 in Neenah, WI
Lives in Santa Fe, NM
Precious Okoyomon (they/them)
Born 1993 in London, United Kingdom
Lives in Brooklyn, NY
Aki Onda (they/them)
Born 1967 in Tenri, Nara, Japan
Lives in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Pat Oleszko (she/her)
Born 1947 in Detroit, MI
Lives in New York, NY
Malcolm Peacock
Born 1994 in Raleigh, NC
Lives in Brooklyn, NY
Sarah M. Rodriguez
Born 1984 in Honolulu, HI
Lives in Ojo Caliente, NM
Gabriela Ruiz (she/her)
Born 1991 in San Fernando Valley, CA
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Jasmin Sian (she/her)
Born 1969 in the Philippines
Lives in New York, NY
Jordan Strafer (she/her)
Born 1990 in Miami, FL
Lives in New York, NY and Athens, Greece
Sung Tieu (she/her)
Born 1987 in Hai Duong, Vietnam
Lives in Berlin, Germany
Julio Torres
Born 1987 in San Salvador, El Salvador
Lives in New York, NY
Anna Tsouhlarakis (she/her)
Born 1977 in Lawrence, KS
Lives in Boulder, CO
Navajo Nation and Creek
Johanna Unzueta
Born 1974 in Santiago, Chile
Lives in Berlin, Germany and New York, NY
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