Installation view of What It Becomes (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, August 24, 2024-January 12, 2025). From left to right: clockwise from top left: Blythe Bohnen, Self Portrait: Horizontal Motion Bisected by Vertical Motion, 1974; Blythe Bohnen, Pivotal Motion From Chin, Large, 1974; Blythe Bohnen, Pivotal Motion, Small, Vertical Motion, Small, 1983; Blythe Bohnen, Horizontal Motion Large, Bisected by Vertical Motion, Large, 1974; Blythe Bohnen, Horizontal Circular Motion, Small, 1974; Blythe Bohnen, Square Motion, Small, 1974; Rick Bartow, Autobiographical Hawk, 1991; Maren Hassinger, Daily Mask, 1997-2004; Darrel Ellis, Self-Portrait after photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe, 1989; Jim Hodges, Untitled, 1992; David Hammons, Close Your Eyes and See Black, 1969; Catherine Opie, Self-Portrait/Cutting, 1993; Toyin Ojih Odutola, The Treatment 20, 2015; Wendy Red Star, Déaxitchish / Pretty Eagle, 2014. Photograph by Ron Amstutz