Whitney Announces Exhibitions Through Summer 2025
View of the Whitney Museum from the southeast at dusk. Photo: Ben Gancsos.
New York's Whitney Museum of American Art has announced its forthcoming raft of exhibitions, beginning with two shows opening on 24 August 2024.
The exhibition Mark Armijo McKnight: Decreation in the Lobby gallery through 5 January 2025. The Los Angeles-born, New York-based photographer favours black and white images of naked bodies in nature. The exhibition will include a 16mm film shot in New Mexico and two limestone sculptures meant to suggest ancient sundials.
The group show What It Becomes will show at the Whitney through 12 January 2025. It gathers works from the museum's collection by 11 artists—including David Hammons, Ana Mendieta, and Catherine Opie—to consider how drawing can make the familiar unrecognisable.
From 1 November 2024 to January 2026, 120 works stretching back to the 1960s will feature in the exhibition Shifting Landscapes. The show aims to transcend the picturesque to see how artists use the landscape genre to engage with social, political, and ecological issues. Over 80 artists are represented, including Firelei Báez, Jane Dickson, and Gordon Matta-Clark.
Deaf sound artist Christine Sun Kim, who was born in Orange County and now lives in Berlin, will receive her first major museum survey from 8 February to July 2025.
The exhibition Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night takes its name from the artist's energy and ambition, which sees her utilise musical notation, infographics, and language in media including drawings, murals, paintings, video installations, and sculptures.
Painter Amy Sherald, best known for her portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, is the subject of her own survey show, Amy Sherald: American Sublime, from 9 April to August 2025. Around 50 paintings will feature, including the Obama and Taylor portraits, as well as rarely seen early works.
Whitney's previously announced Edges of Ailey, dedicated to Alvin Ailey, the founder of the eponymous Black dance company, opens on 25 September 2024. —[O]
Main image: View of the Whitney Museum from the southeast at dusk. Photo: Ben Gancsos.
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