Every two years, the Whitney Biennial takes its signature pulse on the state of American art. Today, they released the highly anticipated list of artists participating. Most of the artists included have recently featured in our pages, so we’ve compiled our coverage below for those looking to bone up before the show opens March 14.
Read the full list of 71 artists over at ARTnews.
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Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio
Image Credit: Courtesy Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles and Mexico City The LA-based sculptor captures the materiality of disappearance and resistance. Maximilíano Durón profiled the artist this spring. [READ HERE]
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Dora Budor
In a 2014 interview, Budor talked to A.i.A. about “‘importing’ Hong Kong directors, horror movie prosthetics and post-Fordist editing techniques.” [READ HERE]
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Demian DinéYazhi’
Image Credit: COURTESY THE ARTIST AND ARTISTS SPACE A 2017 profile by manuel arturo abreu describes the artist as embodying survivance in works that combine punk aesthetics and Indigenous culture. [READ HERE]
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Torkwase Dyson
Nicole Miller writes about how Dyson often uses abstract forms to address legacies of trans-Atlantic slavery and the African diaspora. [READ HERE]
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JJJJJerome Ellis
Image Credit: Courtesy Issue Project Room Ellis’s work, centering the poetic effects of his own stutter, figures in Nicole Kaack’s essay on language in works by Black performance artists. [READ HERE]
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Jes Fan
Image Credit: Courtesy the artist and Empty Gallery In a conversation with scientist Deboleena Roy, Fan—a sculptor and bio artist—discusses the biochemistry of race and gender. [READ HERE]
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Nikita Gale
Image Credit: Courtesy 52 Walker, New York Gale features in Walker Downey’s essay on a new generation of politically potent sound artists, who are privileging content over form. [READ MORE]
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ektor garcia
Image Credit: Courtesy Candice Madey. Photo Adam Reich. Glenn Adamson profiles the nomadic sculptor, centering the communal import of his work. [READ HERE]
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Pippa Garner
Image Credit: Christopher Garcia Valle Emily Watlington interviews the trailblazing trans artist, dubbing Garner “the kind of exuberant person for whom ‘artist’ is the safest catchall term.” [READ HERE]
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Eamon Ore-Giron
Image Credit: COURTESY THE ARTIST AND PEANA, MONTERREY, MEXICO When Ore-Giron was in the 2018 edition of Made in L.A., Leah Ollman described his abstraction as “referring, albeit obliquely, to colonialism’s erasure of Indigenous populations.” [READ MORE]
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Sharon Hayes
Image Credit: COURTESY PRIMARY INFORMATION A review of her 2012 show at the Whitney provocatively titled “There’s so much I want to say to you.” [READ HERE]
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Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst
Image Credit: Courtesy the artists and Foundation For our January 2020 issue on AI and art, Emily McDermott visited Herndon’s Berlin studio. [READ HERE]
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Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich
Image Credit: Courtesy the artist Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich is among the artists Yasmina Lee considers in her essay on the new wave of Afrosurrealist filmmakers. [READ MORE]
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Suzanne Jackson
Image Credit: Photo Peter Frank Edwards The Savannah-based painter figured on the cover of our 2023 Icons issue, where she was profiled by Sarah Douglas. [READ HERE]
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Isaac Julien
Image Credit: Photo Henrik Kam/Courtesy Isaac Julien and Victoria Miro, London/Venice Julien, who makes enchanting, thought-provoking films with historical subjects, wrote a piece about a muse of his for A.i.A.—the theorist Stuart Hall. [READ HERE]
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Lotus L. Kang
Image Credit: Photo Sebastian Bach/Courtesy Helen Anrather and Franz Kaka For our 2022 “New Talent“ issue, Emily Watlington profiled the Toronto-based artist—a photographer of sorts, but one who ditches the image. Kang created a limited edition print that came with each copy of that issue. [READ HERE]
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Mary Kelly
Image Credit: Photo AGO/©Mary Kelly In our special issue on artistic research from March 2022, the art historian Kavior Moon considers Kelly’s work as a progenitor to the current trend. [READ HERE]
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Carolyn Lazard
Image Credit: Photo Marissa Alper For our October 2022 Disability Culture issue, Emily Watlington wrote about Lazard’s work in the context of the disability arts movement they helped spearhead. [READ HERE]
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Dionne Lee
Image Credit: Courtesy the artist In our “New Talent” 2021 issue, Nkgopoleng Moloi writes about how Lee combines darkroom photography with survivalist techniques. [READ HERE]
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Ligia Lewis
Image Credit: Doro Tuch When Eric Sutphin reviewed the Eighth American Realness Festival in 2017, he considered the Dominican choreographer’s minor matter (2016) at length, calling it a standout work. [READ HERE]
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Cannupa Hanska Luger
Image Credit: Photo Rory Wakemup. The Indigenous artist-activist is best known for a series of interventions involving mirror-shields in Standing Rock. [READ HERE]
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Diane Severin Nguyen
Image Credit: Photo Charles Benton Hiji Nam reviewed Nguyen’s recent solo show at SculptureCenter, New York, which attempted to translate and restage various revolutions. [READ HERE]
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B. Ingrid Olson
In 2018, Natalie Bell wrote a “New Talent” profile on the experimental photographer. [READ HERE]
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Shaung Li
Image Credit: Courtesy Peres Projects, Berlin For last year’s “New Talent” Issue, Alex Greenberger profiled the artist exploring the “wrinkles” of technology.
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Simon Liu
Image Credit: Courtesy Simon Liu For our “New Talent” issue in 2022, Simon Wu penned an essay on opacity that featured Liu’s flims. [READ HERE]
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Mary Lovelace O’Neal
Image Credit: Photo: Tom Powel Imaging/Courtesy Mnuchin Gallery, New York The veteran painter featured in a review of a provocative 2023 exhibition that asked: who gets to be abstract? [READ HERE]
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Ser Serpas
Image Credit: Courtesy Swiss Institute Alex Greenberger reviews her recent Swiss Institute show, calling her a “major talent.” [READ HERE]
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Rose B. Simpson
Image Credit: Photo Mel Taing/Courtesy Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston In a moving essay on Simpson’s “droughtcore” sculptures, Lou Cornum describes them as resembling “an Indigenous retelling of Mad Max.” [READ HERE]
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P. Staff
Image Credit: Photo Philipp Hänger/Kunsthalle Basel In an interview with Staff about their 2023 Kunsthalle Basel show, Alex Greenberger warns the artist’s films “may burn images into your retina.” [READ HERE]
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Clarissa Tossin
Image Credit: Photo: Nash Baker In this interview, the LA-based Brazilian artist discusses the colonialist mentality of private space exploration. [READ HERE]
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Tourmaline
Image Credit: Portrait: june canedo for ARTnews; styling: Tess Herbert Kiyan Williams—another artist in this biennial—profiles the artist, filmmaker, and activist working to bring underacknowledged histories to the fore. [READ HERE]
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Kiyan Williams
Image Credit: Photo Dario Lasagni/Courtesy MIT List Visual Arts Center In a review of the recent MIT show “Symbionts: Art and the Biosphere,” Jenny Wu dubs Williams’s contributions—mycelium sculptures—“conceptually developed.“ [READ HERE]
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Charisse Pearlina Weston
Image Credit: Courtesy Charisse Pearlina Weston In a “New Talent” feature from 2022, Chris Murtha shows how Weston’s glass sculptures confront ideas about transparency and opacity. [READ HERE]
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Carmen Winant
Winant’s pictures of birth were a highlight of the 2018 MoMA “New Photography” exhibition. [READ HERE]
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Constantina Zavitsanos
Image Credit: Courtesy Constantina Zavitsanos Emily Watlington profiles the disabled artist, who uses lasers and holograms to comment on debt and dependency. [READ HERE]