Whitney Biennial Announces Artists for 2026 Edition

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, has revealed the fifty-six artists and collectives slated to participate in the Eighty-Second Whitney 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 the New 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.

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