Whitney Biennial 2026

The Biennial was co-curated by Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer and opened on March 8, 2026 as the Whitney Museum’s 82nd edition of the survey. (whitney.org)) Curators assembled 56 artists, duos, and collectives after more than 300 studio visits, with roughly 60% of participants born after 1980; the youngest listed artist is Taína H. Cruz (born 1998) and the oldest is Carmen de Monteflores. (news.artnet.com)) Works for the show are installed across the Whitney’s first, fifth and sixth floors, and the presentation includes a billboard opposite the museum on Gansevoort Street. (whitney.org)) Several featured works explicitly interrogate AI and data: Cooper Jacoby’s Estate (July 10, 2022) was made by scraping deceased creatives’ social-media text into a generative-AI voice and an LED counter, and Emilie Louise Gossiaux’s Kong Play (2025) — a ceramic tribute to a guide dog — anchors the entry sequence. (artnews.com)) The roster includes figures working across media such as Zach Blas, Joshua Citarella, Raven Halfmoon and Samia Halaby, and the Whitney notes that more than 20 participants identify New York as a home base. (whitney.org)) The curatorial framing is intentionally untitled and organized around the idea of “relationality,” which the museum’s press materials describe as spanning family ties, interspecies kinships, geopolitical entanglements and technological affinities. (whitneymedia.org)) Critical response has ranged from praise for the show’s focus on infrastructural and technological interventions in Art in America to a negative assessment from Frieze calling the edition “underwhelming,” with other outlets describing the exhibition as moody and sensory in early press reviews. (artnews.com)) The Biennial’s program includes museum and online public programming and performances, among them a new performance collaboration between comedian-writer Julio Torres and artist Martine Gutierrez listed in press coverage of the lineup. (news.artnet.com))