The Whitney Museum of American Artwork has revealed the 56 artists, duos and collectives that can take part within the 2026 Whitney Biennial, the 82nd version of essentially the most closely-watched recurring exhibition of up to date artwork in the USA. The checklist of members consists of some names that might be acquainted to many on the worldwide artwork circuit—just like the conceptual artist Andrea Fraser, the abstractionist Kamrooz Aram, the multihyphenate artist and poet Valuable Okoyomon, the efficiency artist Pat Oleszko and the comic and former Saturday Evening Life author Julio Torres—and lots of extra that is probably not (full checklist beneath).
The exhibition’s co-curators, Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer (a curator and curator of pictures, respectively, on the Whitney), have opted to forego a thematic title for his or her exhibition (the final two Whitney Biennials had titles) and “let our conversations with artists information us”, Sawyer stated in an announcement.
“After greater than 300 visits, we discovered that most of the artists we gravitated towards had been exploring numerous types of relationality with a selected emphasis on infrastructures,” Sawyer added. “Along with artists from throughout 25 states, we additionally invited artists from Afghanistan, Chile, Iraq, Okinawa, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Vietnam and elsewhere—locations marked by the attain of US energy. Collectively, these artists’ work make area for types of relation which can be intimate, improvised and contested.”
Valuable Okoyomon, You’ve got to generally develop into the medication you need to take, 2025 (element). Non-public assortment © Valuable Okoyomon, Kunsthaus Bregenz. Picture courtesy the artist. Pictures by Markus Tretter
The exhibition, which opens 8 March 2026, will occupy many of the Whitney’s constructing in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District and embrace a full programme of performances, public occasions and on-line programming. Guerrero added in an announcement: “With this Biennial, we hope to foreground a community of kinships that gesture towards types of coexisting on this world.”
Along with some well-established figures and a slew of rising artists, subsequent 12 months’s Whitney Biennial will embrace works by numerous historic or missed figures, amongst them the painter, writer and poet Carmen de Monteflores (who can be Andrea Fraser’s mom), the Filipino composer José Maceda (1917-2004) and the photographer Kimowan Metchewais (1963-2011), who was a member of the Cree and Chilly Lake First Nations of Canada.
Carmen de Monteflores, 4 Girls, 1969. Assortment of the artist © Carmen de Monteflores. Picture courtesy the artist. Pictures by Philip Maisel
The Whitney Biennial may even kick off a busy 12 months for the worldwide calendar of -ennials that features the Biennale of Sydney (14 March-14 June), MoMA PS1’s newest quinquennial survey of the native artwork scene Better New York (16 April-18 August), the Venice Biennale (9 Might-22 November), Manifesta 16 (21 June-4 October), the Biennale de Lyon (19 September-December), the Toronto Biennial of Artwork (26 September-20 December) and the Gwangju Biennale (September-November).
The 2026 Whitney Biennial artists:
Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou RahmeBasel Abbas (he/him)Born 1983 in Nicosia, CyprusRuanne Abou-Rahme (she/her)Born 1983 in BostonLive in Brooklyn and Palestine
Kelly Akashi (no pronouns; identify most well-liked)Born 1983 in Los AngelesLives in Altadena, California
Kamrooz Aram (he/him)Born 1978 in Shiraz, IranLives in New York Metropolis
Ash Arder (she/they)Born 1988 in Muscatawing (Flint, Michigan)Lives in Waawiyatanong (Detroit)
Teresa Baker (she/her)Born 1985 in Mandan/HidatsaLives in Los Angeles
Sula Bermudez-Silverman (she/her)Born 1993 in New York CityLives in Los Angeles
Zach Blas (he/him)Born 1981 in Level Nice, West VirginiaLives in Toronto
Enzo Camacho & Ami LienEnzo Camacho (they/them)Born 1985 in Manila, PhilippinesAmi Lien (they/them)Born 1987 in DallasLive in Berlin and New York Metropolis
Leo Castañeda (he/him)Born 1988 in Cali, ColombiaLives in Miami
CFGNY (Daniel Chew, Ten Izu, Kirsten Kilponen, and Tin Nguyen)Based 2016Based in Brooklyn, New York
Nani Chacon (she/her)Born 1980 in Gallup, New MexicoLives in AlbuquerqueNavajo Nation
Maia Chao (she/her)Born 1991 in Windfall, Rhode IslandLives in Philadelphia
Joshua Citarella (he/him)Born 1987 in New York CityLives in New York Metropolis
Mo Costello (she/her)Born 1989 in SeattleLives in Athens, Georgia
Taína H. Cruz (she/her)Born 1998 in New York CityLives in New Haven, Connecticut
Carmende Monteflores (she/they)Born 1933 in San Juan, Puerto RicoLives in Berkeley, California
Ali Eyal (he/him)Born 1994 in Baghdad, IraqLives in Los Angeles
Andrea Fraser (she/her)Born 1965 in Billings, MontanaLives in Los Angeles
Mariah Garnett (she/they)Born 1980 in Portland, MaineLives in Los Angeles
Ignacio Gatica (no pronouns; identify most well-liked)Born 1988 in Santiago, ChileLives in New York Metropolis and Santiago
Jonathan González (they/them)Born 1991 in Queens, New YorkLives in New York Metropolis and Philadelphia
Emilie Louise Gossiaux (they/them)Born 1989 in New OrleansLives in New York Metropolis
Kainoa Gruspe (he/him)Born 1995 in Louisville, KentuckyLives in Honolulu
Martine Gutierrez (she/her)Born 1989 in Berkeley, CaliforniaLives in New York Metropolis
Samia Halaby (she/her)Born 1936 in PalestineLives in New York Metropolis
Raven Halfmoon (she/her)Born 1991 in Oklahoma CityLives in Norman, OklahomaCaddo Nation
Nile Harris with Dyer RhoadsNile Harris (he/him)Born 1995 in MiamiDyer Rhoads (he/him)Born 1996 in Portland, MaineLive in Brooklyn, New York
Aziz Hazara (he/him)Born 1992 in Wardak, AfghanistanLives in Berlin
Margaret Honda (she/her)Born 1961 in San Diego, CaliforniaLives in Los Angeles
Akira Ikezoe (he/him)Born 1979 in Kochi, JapanLives in New York Metropolis
Mao Ishikawa (she/her)Born 1953 in Okinawa below US AdministrationLives in Okinawa, Japan
Cooper Jacoby (he/him)Born 1989 in Princeton, New JerseyLives in Miami and Paris
David L. Johnson (he/him)Born 1993 in New York CityLives in New York Metropolis
kekahi wahi (Sancia Miala Shiba Nash and Drew Okay. Broderick)Based 2020Based in Honolulu, Kona and Oʻahu, Hawaii
Younger Joon Kwak (they/them)Born 1984 in Queens, New YorkLives in Los Angeles
Michelle Lopez (she/her)Born 1970 in Bridgeport, ConnecticutLives in Philadelphia
José Maceda (he/him)Born 1917 in ManilaDied 2004 in Quezon Metropolis, Philippines
Agosto Machado (he/him)Born in New York CityLives in New York Metropolis
Oswaldo Maciá (he/him)Born 1960 in Cartegena de Indias, ColombiaLives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and London
Emilio Martínez Poppe (he/him)Born 1993 in BaltimoreLives in New York Metropolis
Isabelle Frances McGuire (she/her)Born 1994 in Austin, TexasLives in Chicago
Kimowan Metchewais (he/him)Born 1963 in Oxbow, SaskatchewanDied 2011 in Saint Paul, AlbertaCree, Chilly Lake First Nations
Nour Mobarak (she/her)Born 1985 in CairoLives in Athens and Bainbridge Island, Washington
Erin Jane Nelson (she/her)Born 1989 in Neenah, WisconsinLives in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Valuable Okoyomon (they/them)Born 1993 in LondonLives in Brooklyn, New York
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 Metropolis
Malcolm Peacock (no pronouns; identify most well-liked)Born 1994 in Raleigh, North CarolinaLives in Brooklyn, New York
Sarah M. Rodriguez (no pronouns; identify most well-liked)Born 1984 in HonoluluLives in Ojo Caliente, New Mexico
Gabriela Ruiz (she/her)Born 1991 in San Fernando Valley, CaliforniaLives in Los Angeles
Jasmin Sian (she/her)Born 1969 within the PhilippinesLives in New York Metropolis
Jordan Strafer (she/her)Born 1990 in MiamiLives in New York Metropolis and Athens
Sung Tieu (she/her)Born 1987 in Hai Duong, VietnamLives in Berlin
Julio Torres (no pronouns; identify most well-liked)Born 1987 in San Salvador, El SalvadorLives in New York Metropolis
Anna Tsouhlarakis (she/her)Born 1977 in Lawrence, KansasLives in Boulder, ColoradoNavajo Nation and Creek
Johanna Unzueta (no pronouns; identify most well-liked)Born 1974 in Santiago, ChileLives in Berlin and New York Metropolis
2026 Whitney Biennial, 8 March-August 2026, Whitney Museum of American Artwork, New York
