This is an incomplete list of Whitney Biennial artists selected for the Whitney Biennial exhibitions of contemporary American art, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, United States. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1932, the first biennial was in 1973. The Whitney show is generally regarded as one of the leading shows in the art world, often setting or leading trends in contemporary art.[1]
1973
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1977
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1991
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1993
1995
1997
2000
The curators were Whitney museum director Maxwell L. Anderson, Michael Auping, Valerie Cassel, Hugh M. Davies, Jane Farver, Andrea Miller-Keller, and Lawrence R. Rinder.
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2002
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2004
The curators were Chrissie Iles, Shamim M. Momin, Debra Singer.
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2006
The 73rd Whitney Biennial. The curators were Philippe Vergne and Chrissie Iles.
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2008
The 74th Whitney Biennial.
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2010
The 75th Whitney Biennial/Annual ran February 25 to May 30, 2010.[1] The curators were Francesco Bonami and associate Gary Carrion-Murayari.
2012
The 76th Whitney Biennial/Annual ran March 1 through May 27, 2012.[10] It was curated by Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders.[10] They co-curated the film program with Thomas Beard and Ed Halter, co-founders of Light Industry, a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn.[10]
2014
The 77th Whitney Biennial was on view March 7 through May 25, 2014.[15] The exhibition was curated by Stuart Comer, Anthony Elms, and Michelle Grabner.[15]
2017
The 2017 Biennial is the first to take place in the museum's much larger new location in the Meatpacking District. With 63 participants the exhibition runs from March 17 until June 11, and is co-curated by Christopher Y. Lew and Mia Locks.[20][21]
- Zarouhie Abdalian
- Basma Alsharif
- Jo Baer
- Eric Baudelaire
- Robert Beavers
- Larry Bell
- Matt Browning
- Susan Cianciolo
- Mary Helena Clark
- John Divola
- Celeste Dupuy-Spencer
- Rafa Esparza
- Kevin Jerome Everson
- GCC (Nanu al-Hamad, Abdullah al-Mutairi, Aziz Alqatami, Barrak Alzaid, Khalid al-Gharaballi, Amal Khalaf, Fatima al-Qadiri, Monira al-Qadiri)
- Oto Gillen
- Samara Golden
- Casey Gollan and Victoria Sobel
- Irena Haiduk
- Lyle Ashton Harris
- Tommy Hartung
- Porpentine Charity Heartscape
- Sky Hopinka
- Shara Hughes
- Aaron Flint Jamison
- KAYA (Kerstin Brätsch and Debo Eilers)
- Jon Kessler
- James N. Kienitz Wilkins
- Ajay Kurian
- Deana Lawson
- An-My Lê
- Leigh Ledare
- Dani Leventhal
- Tala Madani
- Park McArthur
- Harold Mendez
- Carrie Moyer
- Ulrike Müller
- Julien Nguyen
- Tuan Andrew Nguyen
- Raúl de Nieves
- Aliza Nisenbaum
- Occupy Museums (Arthur Polendo, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Kenneth Pietrobono, Noah Fischer and Tal Beery)
- Pope.L
- Postcommodity (Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez, Kade L. Twist)
- Puppies Puppies
- Asad Raza
- Jessi Reaves
- John Riepenhoff
- Chemi Rosado-Seijo
- Cameron Rowland
- Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
- Dana Schutz
- Cauleen Smith
- Frances Stark
- Maya Stovall
- Henry Taylor
- Torey Thornton
- Leslie Thornton and James Richards[22]
- Kaari Upson
- Kamasi Washington
- Leilah Weinraub
- Jordan Wolfson
- Anicka Yi
2019
The Biennial participating artists were announced in February 2019. Curated by Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta, the show is open from May 17 to September 22, 2019.[23] One artist, Michael Rakowitz, turned down the invitation to participate in response to the presence of the Whitney's vice chair at the time, Warren Kanders, CEO of Safariland.[24] In mid-July 2019, eight artists requested for their work to be withdrawn from the 2019 Whitney Biennial in response to additional concerns over Safariland's manufacturing of tear gas and police equipment.[25] Kanders resigned from his position on the board July 25, 2019.[24]
2022
The 2021 Whitney Biennial was postponed till 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2022 Whitney Biennial is curated by David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards.[28]
See also
References
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- ^ https://Archive.org/Details/1973biennialexhi [dead link]
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- ^ "WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2000". www.leftmatrix.com.
- ^ "One Art World". One Art World.
- ^ "2004 Whitney Biennial Whitney Museum of American Art New York". 1995-2015.undo.net.
- ^ "Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night". Whitney Museum of American Art, Accessed 16 March 2017.
- ^ "Whitney Biennial 2006 Artists". Whitney Museum of American Art. Archived from the original on 7 April 2006. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
- ^ "Whitney Biennial 2008 Artists". Whitney Museum of American Art. Archived from the original on 15 August 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
- ^ a b c "Whitney Biennial 2012". Whitney Museum of American Art. Archived from the original on 1 November 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
- ^ "Michael Clark". whitney.org. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
- ^ "John Kelsey". whitney.org. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
- ^ "Richard Maxwell in Residence". whitney.org. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
- ^ "Michael Robinson". Creative Capital. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
- ^ a b "Whitney Biennial 2014". Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
- ^ "Jeff Gibson". whitney.org. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
- ^ "Public Collectors". whitney.org. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
- ^ "Sergei Tcherepnin". whitney.org. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
- ^ "Art and race at the Whitney: Rethinking the Donelle Woolford debate". Los Angeles Times. 2014-06-17. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
- ^ Pogrebin, Robin (17 November 2016). "Here Comes the Whitney Biennial, Reflecting the Tumult of the Times". The New York Times.
- ^ Freeman, Nate (17 November 2016). "Here Is the 2017 Whitney Biennial List!".
- ^ "Leslie Thornton and James Richards". whitney.org. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
- ^ "Whitney Biennial 2019". whitney.org. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
- ^ a b Pogrebin, Robin; Harris, Elizabeth A. (2019-07-25). "Warren Kanders Quits Whitney Board After Tear Gas Protests". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
- ^ "Artists Withdraw from Whitney Biennial as Backlash Builds Against Warren Kanders". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2019-07-20.
- ^ a b c Seven Artists Withdraw Their Work From 2019 Whitney Biennial
- ^ "Forensic Architecture Becomes Eighth Exhibitor to Withdraw from Whitney Biennial".
- ^ Durón, Maximilíano (2022-01-25). "Taking the Title 'Quiet as It's Kept,' 2022 Whitney Biennial Names 63 Participating Artists". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
External links
- 1973 Biennial, Whitney Archives
- 1969 Annual, Whitney Archives
- 1967 Annual, Whitney Archives