The subsequent version of essentially the most carefully watched modern artwork exhibition in North America, the Whitney Biennial, will characteristic works by 69 artists and two collectives spanning an unlimited vary of media and kinds.
The lineup of artists chosen by co-curators Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli (and the remainder of the curatorial crew) was introduced Thursday (25 January), round eight weeks forward of the exhibition’s 20 March opening. Titled Even Higher Than the Actual Factor, the 2024 Whitney Biennial will fill the museum’s galleries, auditoriums and extra areas with not solely work, sculptures, installations and different object-based works, but additionally in depth movie and efficiency artwork programmes.
Isaac Julien, Iolaus/Within the Life (As soon as Once more. . . Statues By no means Die), 2022. © Isaac Julien. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London
“We sought to create an exhibition within the type of what [participating] artist Ligia Lewis calls a ‘dissonant refrain’, unharmonious in its collectivity,” Iles and Onli stated in a joint assertion. “It’s putting what number of artists are contending with relationships between the psyche and the physique, and the precarity of the previous few years. Artists are persevering with to grapple with historical past and identification; we now have made an exhibition that unfolds as a set of relations, exploring the challenges of coming collectively in a fractured second.”
The exhibition will embrace works by artists who’ve been famend for many years in addition to extra lately established figures. Amongst them are the revered feminist artist Concord Hammond, the interdisciplinary abstractionist Torkwase Dyson, the artist and subversive designer Pippa Garner, the multimedia artist Sharon Hayes, the pathbreaking painter Suzanne Jackson, the artist and film-maker Tourmaline, the video artist Isaac Julien, the conceptual sculpture and set up artist Dora Budor, the Raqs Media Collective multimedia group and extra. The exhibition may even embrace two artists who’ve died: the Chicagoan film-maker Edward Owens (1949-2010) and the Jamaican American painter Mavis Pusey (1928-2019).
Mavis Pusey, Inside Manhattan, 1977. Assortment of Neil Lane. © Property of Mavis Pusey. {Photograph} by Elon Schoenholz
Because the exhibition’s title evokes, Iles and Onli’s focus in creating the exhibition has been on working with artists whose work offers with the slippery (typically outright illusory) notion of realness. Notably with the speedy unfold of synthetic intelligence over the previous two years, but additionally given varied developments and dynamics which have performed out for the reason that begin of the twenty first century, questions and disagreements about actuality abound, whether or not associated to identification, place, historical past, the physique, the panorama or different essential issues.
This yr’s Whitney Biennial would be the 81st iteration of the exhibition, which began out as an annual endeavour. The variety of individuals represents an uptick from the 63 who had been chosen by co-curators David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards for the 2022 version, which was nicely obtained by critics and featured the fewest controversies of any iteration in latest reminiscence. The exhibition’s 2019 version, curated by Jane Panetta and Rujeko Hockley, grew to become identified unofficially because the “teargas biennial” amid months of protests towards the museum’s vice chairman, Warren B. Kanders, whose enterprise holdings embrace firms that manufacture teargas and different tools utilized in battle zones and to suppress protest actions. After a number of artists within the 2019 biennial threatened to drag their works from the present, Kanders resigned.
Shuang Li, nonetheless from ÆTHER (Poor Objects), 2021. © Shuang Li. Courtesy Peres Initiatives
The 2017 version of the Whitney Biennial, curated by Christopher Y. Lew and Mia Locks, was dominated by the scandal over a portray by Dana Schutz, Open Casket (2016), which depicted the physique of Emmett Until, a 14-year-old who was lynched by a racist mob in 1955. The biennial’s 2014 version, the final one held within the Whitney’s former constructing on Madison Avenue, grew to become a flashpoint for debates about illustration and fairness when the Yams Collective withdrew its work amid objections to the inclusion of a conceptual work by artist Joe Scanlan, a white man, that consisted of hiring Black actors to play the position of a fictional artist named Donelle Woolford.
The 2024 Whitney Biennial artists:
Siku Allooloo (she/her)Born 1986 in Yellowknife, CanadaLives in Bowser, Canada
Holland Andrews (they/them)Born 1988 in Orange, CaliforniaLives in Brooklyn, New York
Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio (he/him)Born 1990 in Los Angeles, CaliforniaLives in Los Angeles, California
Dora BudorBorn 1984 in Zagreb, CroatiaLives in New York, New York
Seba Calfuqueo (she/her/they/them)Born 1991 in Santiago, ChileLives in Ngulumapu, Wallmapu (Chile)
Debit (she/her)Born 1986 in Monterrey, MexicoLives in New York, New York
Demian DinéYazhi’ (they/them)Born 1983 in Gallup, New Mexico (Diné Bikéyah [Navajo Nation])Lives in Portland, Oregon, and elsewhere
Torkwase Dyson (she/her)Born 1973 in Chicago, IllinoisLives in Beacon, New York
JJJJJerome Ellis (any/all)Born 1989 in Groton, ConnecticutLives in Norfolk, Virginia
Jes Fan (he/him/they/them)Born 1990 in Scarborough, CanadaLives in Brooklyn, NY, and Hong Kong
Nikita GaleBorn 1983 in Anchorage, Alaska, Dënéndeh and Dena’ina EłnenaLives in Los Angeles, California
ektor garciaBorn 1985 in Pink Bluff, CaliforniaLives in Mexico Metropolis, Mexico, and elsewhere
Pippa Garner (she/her)Born 1942 in Evanston, IllinoisLives in Lengthy Seashore, California
Concord Hammond (she/her)Born 1944 in Chicago, IllinoisLives in Galisteo, New Mexico
Christopher Harris (he/him)Born 1962 in St. Louis, MissouriLives in Coralville, Iowa
Sharon Hayes (she/her)Born 1970 in Baltimore, MarylandLives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Miranda HaymonBorn 1993 in Boston, MassachusettsLives in Brooklyn, New York
Sarah Hennies (she/her)Born 1979 in Louisville, KentuckyLives in Pink Hook, New York
Holly Herndon and Mat DryhurstHerndon (she/her): born 1980 in Johnson Metropolis, TennesseeDryhurst (he/him): born 1984 in Birmingham, UKLive in Berlin, Germany
Ho Tzu Nyen (he/him)Born 1976 in SingaporeLives in Singapore
Yasmine Anlan Huang (she/her)Born 1996 in Guangzhou, ChinaLives in London, UK, and New York, New York
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich (she/her)Born 1987 in New York, New YorkLives in New York, New York
Suzanne Jackson (she/her)Born 1944 in St. Louis, MissouriLives in Savannah, Georgia
Isaac JulienBorn 1960 in London, UKLives in London, UK, and Santa Cruz, California
Lotus L. Kang (she/her)Born 1985 in Toronto, CanadaLives in New York, New York
Aron Kantor (he/him/they/them)Born 1978 in San Francisco, CaliforniaLives in Los Angeles, California
Mary Kelly (she/her)Born 1941 in Fort Dodge, IowaLives in New York, New York
Kite (she/her)Born 1990 in Sylmar, CaliforniaLives in Ancram, New York
Gbenga Komolafe and Tee ParkKomolafe (they/them/he/him/she/her): born 2000 in Port-Harcourt, NigeriaPark (she/her): born 1999 in Seoul, South KoreaLive in Los Angeles, California
Jenni Laiti (she/her)Born 1981 in Anár, Sápmi (Inari, Finland)Lives in Jåhkåmåhkke, Sápmi (Jokkmokk, Sweden)
Carolyn Lazard (they/them)Born 1987 in San Bernardino, CaliforniaLives in New York, New York
Dionne LeeBorn 1988 in New York, New YorkLives in Columbus, Ohio
Ligia Lewis (she/her)Born 1983 in Santo Domingo, Dominican RepublicLives in Berlin, Germany
Shuang Li (she/her)Born 1990 in Wuyi Mountains, ChinaLives in Berlin, Germany, and Geneva, Switzerland
Simon Liu (he/him)Born 1987 in Hong KongLives in Brooklyn, New York
Mary Lovelace O’Neal (she/her)Born 1942 in Jackson, MississippiLives in Oakland, California, and Merida, Mexico
Cannupa Hanska Luger (he/him)Born 1979 in Fort Yates, North Dakota (Standing Rock Reservation)Lives in Glorieta, New Mexico
Nyala Moon (she/her)Born 1992 in New York, New YorkLives in Brooklyn, New York
Okay.R.M. Mooney (he/him)Born 1990 in Seattle, WashingtonLives in Brooklyn, New York
Dala NasserBorn 1990 in Tyre, LebanonLives in Beirut, Lebanon, and London, UK
Diane Severin Nguyen (she/her)Born 1990 in Carson, CaliforniaLives in New York, New York
Niillasaš-Jovnna Máreha Juhani Sunná Máret–Sunna Nousuniemi (they/them)Born 1993 in Anár, SápmiLives in Anár, Sápmi
Karyn Olivier (she/her)Born 1968 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and TobagoLives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
B. Ingrid OlsonBorn 1987 in Denver, ColoradoLives in Chicago, Illinois
Eamon Ore-Giron (he/him)Born 1973 in Tucson, ArizonaLives in Los Angeles, California
Edward Owens (he/him)Born 1949 in Chicago, IllinoisDied 2010 in Chicago, Illinois
Sydney Frances Pascal (she/her)Born 1993 in Nanaimo, CanadaLives in Vancouver, Canada
Individuals Who Stutter CreateFounded 2023Jia Bin, Delicia Daniels, JJJJJerome Ellis, Conor Foran, Kristel Kubart
Julia Phillips (she/her)Born 1985 in Hamburg, GermanyLives in Chicago, Illinois
Mavis Pusey (she/her)Born 1928 in Retreat, JamaicaDied 2019 in Falmouth, Virginia
Raqs Media CollectiveFounded 1992 in Delhi, IndiaJeebesh Bachi, Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta
Riar Rizaldi (he/him)Born 1990 in Bandung, IndonesiaLives in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Maja Ruznic (she/her)Born 1983 in Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Yugoslavia)Lives in Placitas, New Mexico
Ser Serpas (she/her)Born 1995 in East Los Angeles, CaliforniaLives in New York, New York
Rose B. Simpson (she/her)Born 1983 in Santa Fe, New MexicoLives in Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico
Penelope Spheeris (she/her)Born 1945 in New Orleans, LouisianaLives in Los Angeles, California
P. Employees (they/them)Born 1987 within the UKLives in Los Angeles, California
Lada Suomenrinne (they/them)Born 1995 in Murmansk, RussiaLives in Espoo, Finland, and Njuorggán, Sápmi
Alex Tatarsky (they/them)Born 1989 in New York, New YorkLives in New York, NY, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Alisi Telengut (she/her)Born 1989 in Inside Mongolia (Telengut and Mongolian nations)Lives in Berlin, Germany, and Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Canada
Clarissa Tossin (she/her)Born 1973 in Porto Alegre, BrazilLives in Los Angeles, California
Tourmaline (she/her)Born 1983 in Boston, MassachusettsLives in New York, New York
Chanelle Tyson (they/them)Born 1989 in Greensboro, North CarolinaLives in Los Angeles, California
Zulaa Urchuud (she/her)Born 1991 in Ulaanbaatar, MongoliaLives in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Charisse Pearlina Weston (she/her)Born 1988 in Houston, TexasLives in New York, New York
Kiyan Williams (they/them)Born 1991 in Newark, New JerseyLives in Brooklyn, New York
Carmen Winant (she/her)Born 1983 in San Francisco, CaliforniaLives in Columbus, Ohio
Takako Yamaguchi (she/her)Born 1952 in Okayama, JapanLives in Santa Monica, California
Constantina Zavitsanos (any/all)Born 1977 in Studying, PennsylvaniaLives in New York, New York
