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Whitney Biennial 2026 Whitney Museum of American Art 8 March–23 August 2026 New York
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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.

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Installation Views

Exhibition view: Group Exhibition, Whitney Biennial 2026, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (8 March–23 August 2026). Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art.
Exhibition view: Group Exhibition, Whitney Biennial 2026, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (8 March–23 August 2026). Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art.
Exhibition view: Group Exhibition, Whitney Biennial 2026, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (8 March–23 August 2026). Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art.
Exhibition view: Group Exhibition, Whitney Biennial 2026, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (8 March–23 August 2026). Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art.
Exhibition view: Group Exhibition, Whitney Biennial 2026, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (8 March–23 August 2026). Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art.
Exhibition view: Group Exhibition, Whitney Biennial 2026, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (8 March–23 August 2026). Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art.
Exhibition view: Group Exhibition, Whitney Biennial 2026, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (8 March–23 August 2026). Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art.
Exhibition view: Group Exhibition, Whitney Biennial 2026, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (8 March–23 August 2026). Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art.
Exhibition view: Group Exhibition, Whitney Biennial 2026, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (8 March–23 August 2026). Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art.
Exhibition view: Group Exhibition, Whitney Biennial 2026, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (8 March–23 August 2026). Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art.
Exhibition view: Group Exhibition, Whitney Biennial 2026, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (8 March–23 August 2026). Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art.
Exhibition view: Group Exhibition, Whitney Biennial 2026, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (8 March–23 August 2026). Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art.
Exhibition view: Group Exhibition, Whitney Biennial 2026, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (8 March–23 August 2026). Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art.
Exhibition view: Group Exhibition, Whitney Biennial 2026, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (8 March–23 August 2026). Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Artists Exhibiting

Basel Abbas Ruanne Abou-rahme contemporary artist
Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-rahme b. 1983 Follow +
Kelly Akashi contemporary artist
Kelly Akashi b. 1983 Follow +
Kamrooz Aram contemporary artist
Kamrooz Aram b. 1978 Follow +
Teresa Baker contemporary artist
Teresa Baker b. 1985 Follow +
Sula Bermudez-Silverman contemporary artist
Sula Bermúdez-Silverman b. 1993 Follow +
Enzo Camacho Ami Lien contemporary artist
Enzo Camacho & Ami Lien Follow +
Ali Eyal contemporary artist
Ali Eyal b. 1994 Follow +
Andrea Fraser contemporary artist
Andrea Fraser b. 1965 Follow +
Young Joon Kwak contemporary artist
Young Joon Kwak b. 1984 Follow +
David L. Johnson contemporary artist
David L. Johnson b. 1993 Follow +
Johanna Unzueta contemporary artist
Johanna Unzueta b. 1974 Follow +
Anna Tsouhlarakis contemporary artist
Anna Tsouhlarakis b. 1977 Follow +
Sung Tieu contemporary artist
Sung Tieu b. 1987 Follow +
Jasmin Sian contemporary artist
Jasmin Sian b. 1969 Follow +
Akira Ikezoe contemporary artist
Akira Ikezoe Follow +
Gabriela Ruiz contemporary artist
Gabriela Ruiz b. 1991 Follow +
Aziz Hazara contemporary artist
Aziz Hazara b. 1992 Follow +
Aki Kondo contemporary artist
Aki Kondo b. 1987 Follow +
Precious Okoyomon contemporary artist
Precious Okoyomon b. 1993 Follow +
Raven Halfmoon contemporary artist
Raven Halfmoon b. 1991 Follow +
Nour Mobarak contemporary artist
Nour Mobarak b. 1985 Follow +
Erin Jane Nelson contemporary artist
Erin Jane Nelson b. 1989 Follow +
Martine Gutierrez contemporary artist
Martine Gutierrez b. 1989 Follow +
Samia Halaby contemporary artist
Samia Halaby b. 1936 Follow +
Agosto Machado contemporary artist
Agosto Machado b. 1965 Follow +
Isabelle Frances Mcguire contemporary artist
Isabelle Frances Mcguire Follow +
Taina H. Cruz contemporary artist
Taína H. Cruz b. 1998 Follow +

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