Curating the Whitney Biennial 2026
Wed, Apr 22, 2026
6:30 pm
Michelle Lopez, still from Pandemonium, 2017–2025. 360-degree animation, color, silent; 20 min. Collection of the artist. © Michelle Lopez Studio. Image courtesy of the artist. Photography by Michelle Lopez
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Floor 3 Theater and online, via Zoom
Join Whitney Biennial 2026 co-curators Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer for a conversation with scholar and critic Jill H. Casid about the process of organizing this edition of the Whitney’s signature exhibition.
Together they will share insights from their ongoing research and dialogues with artists to shed light on how contemporary art reflects the current moment. The discussion will also consider the various forms of relationality, including interspecies kinships, familial relations, geopolitical entanglements, technological affinities, shared mythologies, and infrastructural supports, that are woven into the work of the 56 artists on view.
Jill H. Casid is an artist-theorist and historian. They hold the position of Professor of Visual Studies with a cross-appointment in the Departments of Art History and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Casid pursues a research practice across writing, photography, and film that is dedicated to queer, crip, trans*feminist, and decolonial interventions.
Marcela Guerrero is the DeMartini Family Curator
Drew Sawyer is the Sondra Gillman Curator of Photography
