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Left to right, Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer, curators of the Whitney Biennial 2026, and some of the artists in the exhibition: Agosto Machado (standing); Kamrooz Aram (standing); Samia Halaby (seated), Jonathan González (standing), Precious Okoyomon (seated), Emilie Louise Gossiaux, who is blind.Credit...Marcus Maddox for The New York Times
There were beers in Honolulu and coffees in Vienna; lengthy drives across the southwestern United States and repeat visits to Los Angeles on a countrywide journey. Eventually, the airports to gain access to faraway cities like Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, and São Paulo, Brazil, started blurring together.
After a year of constant traveling and more than 300 studio visits, the curators Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer have assembled 56 individual artists and groups for the 2026 Whitney Biennial, a survey of American contemporary art scheduled to open on March 8. The exhibition — the 82nd biennial — will include a geographically diverse set of artists such as Gabriela Ruiz, born in Los Angeles; Kamrooz Aram, from Iran; Jasmin Sian, born in the Philippines; and Sung Tieu, originally from Vietnam. (You can find the full list of artists on the museum’s website.)
“There will be new discoveries, even for art-world insiders,” Sawyer said, noting that many of the artists have not frequently been shown in New York.
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