Whitney Biennial Announces Artists for 2026 Edition

Whitney Biennial Announces Artists for 2026 Edition

TheWhitney Museum of American Art, New York, has revealed the fifty-six artists and collectives slated to participate in the Eighty-SecondWhitney Biennial, opening March 8, 2026. This year’s iteration of the Biennial is curated by Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer. The 2026 cohort is geographically diverse and heavy on millennials, with roughly 60 precent of participants having been born after 1980; about 30 percent self-identify as queer. A number of artists have only infrequently seen their work shown in New York. Per a press release, the exhibition will examine “various forms of relationality, including interspecies kinships, familial relations, geopolitical entanglements, technological affinities, shared mythologies, and infrastructural supports.”

“What Marcela and Drew have put together doesn’t try to simplify the strangeness of our times,” Whitney director Scott Rothkopf told theNew York Times. “It allows visitors to encounter the world as artists are sensing it, structurally unstable and emotionally charged yet also full of possibility.”

Guerrero and Sawyer told the Times they conducted more than three hundred studio visits with artists around the world before assembling their final list. Among the participating artists are Iran-born painter Kamrooz Aram; blind New Orleans-born ceramicist Emilie Louise Gossiaux; and Vietnam-born multidisciplinary artist Sung Tieu.

A full list of participating artists and collectives is below.

Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme Basel Abbas (he/him)Born 1983 in Nicosia, CyprusRuanne Abou-Rahme (she/her)Born 1983 in BostonLive in Brooklyn, NY, and Palestine

Kelly AkashiBorn 1983 in Los AngelesLives in Altadena, CA

Kamrooz Aram (he/him)Born 1978 in Shiraz, IranLives in New York

Ash Arder (she/they)Born 1988 in Muscatawing (Flint, MI)Lives in Waawiyatanong (Detroit, MI)

Teresa Baker (she/her)Born 1985 in Mandan/HidatsaLives in Los Angeles

Sula Bermudez-Silverman (she/her)Born 1993 in New YorkLives in Los Angeles

Zach Blas (he/him)Born 1981 in Point Pleasant, WVLives in Toronto

Enzo Camacho & Ami LienEnzo Camacho (they/them)Born 1985 in ManilaAmi Lien (they/them)Born 1987 in DallasLive in Berlin and New York

Leo Castañeda (he/him)Born 1988 in Cali, ColombiaLives in Miami

CFGNY (Daniel Chew, Ten Izu, Kirsten Kilponen, and Tin Nguyen)Founded 2016Based in Brooklyn, NY

Nani Chacon (she/her)Born 1980 in Gallup, NMLives in Albuquerque, NMNavajo Nation

Maia Chao (she/her)Born 1991 in Providence, RILives in Philadelphia

Joshua Citarella  (he/him)Born 1987 in New YorkLives in New York

Mo Costello (she/her)Born 1989 in SeattleLives in Athens, GA

Taína H. Cruz (she/her)Born 1998 in New YorkLives in New Haven

Carmen de Monteflores (she/they)Born 1933 in San Juan, Puerto RicoLives in Berkeley, CA

Ali Eyal (he/him)Born 1994 in BaghdadLives in Los Angeles

Andrea Fraser (she/her)Born 1965 in Billings, MTLives in Los Angeles

Mariah Garnett (she/they)Born 1980 in Portland, MELives in Los Angeles

Ignacio GaticaBorn 1988 in Santiago, ChileLives in New York and Santiago, Chile

Jonathan González (they/them)Born 1991 in Queens, NYLives in New York and Philadelphia

Emilie Louise Gossiaux (they/them)Born 1989 in New OrleansLives in New York

Kainoa Gruspe (he/him)Born 1995 in Louisville, KYLives in Honolulu

Martine Gutierrez (she/her)Born 1989 in Berkeley, CALives in New York

Samia Halaby (she/her)Born 1936 in PalestineLives in New York

Raven Halfmoon (she/her)Born 1991 in Oklahoma CityLives in Norman, OKCaddo Nation

Nile Harris with Dyer RhoadsNile Harris (he/him)Born 1995 in MiamiDyer Rhoads (he/him)Born 1996 in Portland, MELive in Brooklyn, NY

Aziz Hazara (he/him)Born 1992 in Wardak, AfghanistanLives in Berlin

Margaret Honda (she/her)Born 1961 in San DiegoLives in Los Angeles

Akira Ikezoe (he/him)Born 1979 in Kochi, JapanLives in New York

Mao Ishikawa (she/her)Born 1953 in Okinawa under US AdministrationLives in Okinawa, Japan

Cooper Jacoby (he/him)Born 1989 in Princeton, NJLives in Miami and Paris

David L. Johnson (he/him)Born 1993 in New YorkLives in New York

kekahi wahi (Sancia Miala Shiba Nash and Drew K. Broderick)Founded 2020Based in Honolulu, Kona, Oʻahu, HI

Young Joon Kwak (they/them)Born 1984 in Queens, NYLives in Los Angeles

Michelle Lopez (she/her)Born 1970 in Bridgeport, CTLives in Philadelphia

José Maceda (he/him)Born 1917 in ManilaDied 2004 in Quezon City, Philippines

Agosto Machado (he/him)Born in New YorkLives in New York

Oswaldo Maciá (he/him)Born 1960 in Cartegena de Indias, ColombiaLives in Santa Fe, NM, and London

Emilio Martínez Poppe (he/him)Born 1993 in BaltimoreLives in New York

Isabelle Frances McGuire (she/her)Born 1994 in AustinLives in Chicago

Kimowan Metchewais (he/him)Born 1963 in Oxbow, SK, CanadaDied 2011 in Saint Paul, AB, CanadaCree, Cold Lake First Nations

Nour Mobarak (she/her)Born 1985 in CairoLives in Athens and Bainbridge Island, WA

Erin Jane Nelson (she/her)Born 1989 in Neenah, WILives in Santa Fe, NM

Precious Okoyomon (they/them)Born 1993 in London,Lives in Brooklyn, NY

Aki Onda (they/them)Born 1967 in Tenri, Nara, JapanLives in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan

Pat Oleszko (she/her)Born 1947 in DetroitLives in New York

Malcolm PeacockBorn 1994 in Raleigh, NCLives in Brooklyn, NY

Sarah M. RodriguezBorn 1984 in HonoluluLives in Ojo Caliente, NM

Gabriela Ruiz (she/her)Born 1991 in San Fernando Valley, CALives in Los Angeles

Jasmin Sian (she/her)Born 1969 in the PhilippinesLives in New York

Jordan Strafer (she/her)Born 1990 in MiamiLives in New York and Athens

Sung Tieu (she/her)Born 1987 in Hai Duong, VietnamLives in Berlin

Julio TorresBorn 1987 in San SalvadorLives in New York

Anna Tsouhlarakis (she/her)Born 1977 in Lawrence, KSLives in Boulder, CONavajo Nation and Creek

Johanna UnzuetaBorn 1974 in Santiago, ChileLives in Berlin and New York