These Are the Artists in the 2026 Whitney Biennial

"The Whitney Museum of American Art has named 56 participating artists, including duos and collectives, for its forthcoming Whitney Biennial 2026, organized by an in-house curatorial team including Marcela Guerrero, Drew Sawyer, Beatriz Cifuentes, and Carina Martinez. Among the most recognizable names on the 82nd edition of the exhibition's roster are Palestinian artist Samia Halaby, performance artist Andrea Fraser, and Okinawan photographer Mao Ishikawa."

"The Whitney's announcement of artists comes at the end of a tumultuous year for the institution, during which it suspended its prestigious Independent Study Program after cancelling a performance on Palestinian mourning. The suspension drew condemnation, including allegations of anti-Palestinian censorship, from alumni and faculty. Twenty-one artists on the biennial list were born outside of the United States, including in Vietnam, Cyprus, Afghanistan, Palestine, Japan, Iran, Iraq, and Puerto Rico."

The Whitney Museum of American Art named 56 artists, including duos and collectives, for the 2026 Whitney Biennial, selected by an in-house curatorial team including Marcela Guerrero, Drew Sawyer, Beatriz Cifuentes, and Carina Martinez. The roster includes figures such as Samia Halaby, Andrea Fraser, and Mao Ishikawa. The exhibition will address forms of relationality, including interspecies kinships, familial ties, geopolitical entanglements, technological affinities, shared mythologies, and infrastructural supports. The announcement follows a contentious period in which the museum suspended its Independent Study Program after cancelling a performance on Palestinian mourning, drawing allegations of anti-Palestinian censorship. Twenty-one participants were born outside the United States, including Baghdad-born Ali Eyal.

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