Past Exhibitions

2020

A photograph of a massive hole in a dilapidated building with sunlight streaming in

Around Day’s End: Downtown New York, 1970–1986

Sept 3–Nov 1, 2020

Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist

Mar 13–Nov 1, 2020

A two-panel painting. On the left side, three goat-like animals stand on their hind legs in a mountainous landscape. On the right panel, a series of lone figures and a couple inhabit a space with trees, rocks, and trash.

Jill Mulleady:
We Wither Time into a Coil of Fright

Mar 2, 2020–Jan 24, 2021

Painting of a woman with a basket of calla lilies

Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945

Feb 17, 2020–Jan 31, 2021

Brightly-dressed women standing around and looking upward.

Cauleen Smith: Mutualities

Feb 17, 2020–Jan 31, 2021

A photo of various fruits and vegetables perched on wood plinths

fruits, vegetables; fruit and vegetable salad

Jan 15–Feb 17, 2020

2019

A penguin and many flamingos on an ice flow next to a sign that says "the long and short of it" overlaying whitney.org.

Kristin Lucas: Speculative Habitat for Sponsored Seabirds

Nov 19, 2019–July 20, 2020

A TV, trash can, and a large colorful object.

Rachel Harrison Life Hack

Oct 25, 2019–Jan 12, 2020

A purple-tinted, pixellated image of two wolves

Alan Michelson: Wolf Nation

Oct 25, 2019–Jan 12, 2020

Reflections of water in test tank in the artist's studio

Pope.L: Choir

Oct 10, 2019–Mar 8, 2020

A print of an architectural entablature.

Order and Ornament:
Roy Lichtenstein’s Entablatures

Sept 27, 2019–Nov 16, 2020

5 men in hats in a circle, facing away from each other and playing 5 different pianos

Jason Moran

Sept 20, 2019–Jan 5, 2020

Text that says Whitney Biennial 2019 with a round clock in the middle.

Whitney Biennial 2019

May 17–Oct 27, 2019

Image of two people sitting on the ground with their eyes downcast

Moved by the Motion: Sudden Rise

Apr 26–Apr 27, 2019

Painting of a woman and legs in bright colors.

Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s

Mar 29–Aug 18, 2019

A laptop with whitney.org onscreen sits on a table by the water as the sun rises.

exonemo: 0 to 1 / 1 to 0

Feb 6–Nov 18, 2019

2018

A cotton gin motor

Kevin Beasley: A view of a landscape

Dec 15, 2018–Mar 10, 2019

A block of four, blue tinted self portraits, by Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol—
From A to B and
Back Again

Nov 12, 2018–Mar 31, 2019

TV screens stacked on top of each other with faces.

Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018

Sept 28, 2018–Apr 14, 2019

An installation image of a billboard artwork across from the Whitney Museum.

Derek Fordjour:
Half Mast

Sept 24, 2018–May 5, 2019

A model with a bag on her head.

Eckhaus Latta: Possessed

Aug 3–Oct 8, 2018

Sketch of elongated nude female bodies.

The Face in the Moon: Drawings and Prints by Louise Nevelson

July 20–Oct 8, 2018

Self portrait with collage.

David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night

July 13–Sept 30, 2018

A woman in a leopard suit scaling a wall

Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art

July 13–Sept 30, 2018

Glowing white artwork.

Mary Corse: A Survey in Light

June 8–Nov 25, 2018

An animated robot with cookie print skin and unicorns in their hair overlaying whitney.org.

Carla Gannis: Lady Ava Interface

Apr 10, 2018–Feb 6, 2019

Drop of milk against red background.

Flash: Photographs by Harold Edgerton from the Whitney's Collection

Mar 30–July 15, 2018

Slides.

Nick Mauss: Transmissions

Mar 16–May 14, 2018

Painting of person with fin.

Between the Waters

Mar 9–July 22, 2018

Painting of man holding a pitch fork and a woman in front of a house.

Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables

Mar 2–June 10, 2018

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A 30-second online art project:
LaTurbo Avedon, Morning Mirror / Evening Mirror