Whitney Biennial 2006:
Day for Night
Mar 2–May 28, 2006
The Whitney's signature panoramic survey of the latest in American art is the seventy-third in the series of Annuals and Biennials inaugurated by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in 1932. The 2006 Biennial examines contemporary art-making in America at a moment of profound global change. The exhibition, titled Day for Night after François Truffaut's 1973 film, conjures a mood of dark intensity, shifting between beauty and degradation, doubt and conformity, the seductive and the strange.
Artists
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Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla
1 exhibition -
Dawolu Jabari Anderson
1 exhibition -
Dominic Angerame
1 exhibition -
Kenneth Anger
5 works in the collection -
Christina Battle
1 exhibition -
James Benning
5 exhibitions -
Bernadette Corporation
8 works in the collection -
Amy Blakemore
1 exhibition -
Louise Bourque
1 exhibition -
Mark Bradford
18 works in the collection -
Troy Brauntuch
1 exhibition -
Anthony Burdin
1 exhibition -
George Butler
1 exhibition -
Carter
1 work in the collection -
Carolina Caycedo
3 works in the collection -
The Center For Land Use Interpretation
1 exhibition -
Paul Chan
3 works in the collection -
Lori Cheatle and Daisy Wright
1 exhibition -
Ira Cohen
1 exhibition -
Martha Colburn
1 exhibition -
Dan Colen
1 work in the collection -
Anne Collier
16 works in the collection -
Tony Conrad
8 works in the collection -
Critical Art Ensemble
1 exhibition -
Jamal Cyrus
1 exhibition -
Miles Davis
1 exhibition -
Deep Dish Television Network
1 exhibition -
Lucas DeGiulio
1 exhibition -
Mark di Suvero
7 works in the collection -
Peter Doig
1 exhibition -
Trisha Donnelly
2 works in the collection -
Jimmie Durham
2 works in the collection -
Kenya Evans
1 exhibition -
Urs Fischer
1 exhibition -
David Gatten
1 work in the collection -
Joe Gibbons
4 exhibitions -
Robert Gober
50 works in the collection -
Deva Graf
1 exhibition -
Dan Graham, Tony Oursler, Rodney Graham, Laurent P. Berger, and Japanther
1 exhibition -
Rodney Graham
5 works in the collection -
Hannah Greely
2 exhibitions -
Mark Grotjahn
5 works in the collection -
Jay Heikes
1 exhibition -
Doug Henry
1 exhibition -
Pierre Huyghe
2 works in the collection -
Dorothy Iannone
1 exhibition -
Matthew Day Jackson
3 works in the collection -
Cameron Jamie
3 works in the collection -
Natalie Jeremijenko/Bureau Of Inverse Technology
1 exhibition -
Daniel Johnston
1 exhibition -
Lewis Klahr
3 exhibitions -
Jutta Koether
2 works in the collection -
Andrew Lampert
1 work in the collection -
Lisa Lapinski
1 exhibition -
Liz Larner
4 works in the collection -
Hanna Liden
1 exhibition -
Jeanne Liotta
1 exhibition -
Marie Losier
1 exhibition -
Florian Maier-Aichen
4 works in the collection -
Monica Majoli
1 work in the collection -
Yuri Masnyj
1 work in the collection -
T. Kelly Mason
1 work in the collection -
T. Kelly Mason and Diana Thater
1 exhibition -
Adam McEwen
8 works in the collection -
Taylor Mead
1 exhibition -
Josephine Meckseper
7 works in the collection -
Marilyn Minter
10 works in the collection -
Momus
1 exhibition -
Matthew Monahan
1 exhibition -
JP Munro
1 exhibition -
Jesús “Bubu” Negrón
1 exhibition -
Kori Newkirk
1 exhibition -
Todd Norsten
1 exhibition -
Jim O’Rourke
2 exhibitions -
Otabenga Jones and Associates
1 exhibition -
Steven Parrino
11 works in the collection -
Ed Paschke
3 works in the collection -
Mathias Poledna
2 works in the collection -
Robert A. Pruitt
4 works in the collection -
Jennifer Revves
1 exhibition -
Richard Serra
24 works in the collection -
Gedi Sibony
5 works in the collection -
Jennie Smith
1 work in the collection -
Dash Snow
1 work in the collection -
Michael Snow
1 exhibition -
Reena Spaulings
8 works in the collection -
Rudolf Stingel
2 works in the collection -
Angela Strassheim
2 works in the collection -
Zoe Strauss
1 exhibition -
Studio Film Club
1 exhibition -
Sturtevant
2 works in the collection -
Billy Sullivan
1 exhibition -
Spencer Sweeney
1 exhibition -
Diana Thater
6 works in the collection -
Rirkrit Tiravanija
7 works in the collection -
Ryan Trecartin
5 works in the collection -
Chris Vasell
1 exhibition -
Francesco Vezzoli
1 exhibition -
Kelley Walker
3 works in the collection -
Nari Ward
3 works in the collection -
Christopher Williams
9 works in the collection -
Jordan Wolfson
6 works in the collection -
The Wrong Gallery
1 exhibition -
Aaron Young
1 exhibition
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In the News
“This [biennial] is partly about preaching to the converted. It is packaged—branded might be the better word—as a show long on collaboration and open-endedness: several shows under one roof. But it has other goals too. You wouldn’t say bliss is one of them.” —The New York Times
“Unlike most large group shows, [the Biennial] has a point of view. Because [it] is a frankly political exhibition, it demands to be judged within [the curators’] chosen political terms.” —The Burlington Magazine
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