Current Exhibitions

Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist

Mar 13–Nov 1, 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

A print of an architectural entablature.

Order and Ornament:
Roy Lichtenstein’s Entablatures

Sept 27, 2019–Nov 16, 2020

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

An installation of artwork representing a kitchen.

Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019

Nov 22, 2019–Feb 2022

A painting with a black background and white totem-like central figure

The Whitney's Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965

Jun 28, 2019–May 2022

Public Art

Engage with powerful site-specific artworks outside the Whitney's walls.

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 2021

Rendering of a sculpture by David Hammons, resembling the frame of a shed rising from the Hudson River, viewed at sunset

Public Art Project by David Hammons: Day's End

Dec 2020

A landscape with mountains in the background and two large purple hands, held open, in the center with red letters spelling "exit" above them

Andrea Carlson

Feb–Sept 2021

Martine Gutierrez

Sept 2021–Mar 2022

Upcoming Exhibitions

A painting of four men in a living room. Two are dancing and two are sitting on a sofa.

Salman Toor: How Will I Know

Nov 13, 2020–Apr 4, 2021

Nothing Is So Humble: Prints from Everyday Objects

Nov 20, 2020–Spring 2021

A group of African American artists who are part of the Kamoinge collective posing in front of a white backdrop.

Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop

Nov 21, 2020–Mar 28, 2021

Julie Mehretu

Mar 19–Aug 8, 2021

A close-up of orange leaves, brightly lit in the center, glowing yellow.

Madeline Hollander: Flatwing

Mar 19–Aug 8, 2021

Six polaroids combined to make an image of two women seated next to one another

Dawoud Bey: An American Project

Apr 17, 2021–

A grainy still of a man outside a supermarket with a shopping cart in view

Dave McKenzie: The Story I Tell Myself

May 1, 2021–

Three American flags on top of each other.

Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror

Sept 29, 2021–Feb 13, 2022

The three members of My Barbarian stand on steps each holding microphones with a band and dancers behind them

My Barbarian

Oct 22, 2021–

The Whitney Museum building with the High Line park in front of it

Whitney Biennial 2022

Apr–Aug 2022

Online

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A computer-generated image of apartment layouts stacked into the shape of a pyramid

Sam Lavigne and Tega Brain: New York Apartment

2020

An overhead shot of a hand painting.

Michael Mandiberg: Live Study

2019

Images of artworks on the online collection replaced with wooden boards, over a black background and greyed-out text

American Artist: Looted

July 21, 2020–

A photo of various fruits and vegetables perched on wood plinths

fruits, vegetables; fruit and vegetable salad

Jan 15–Feb 17, 2020

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

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

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A 30-second online art project:
American Artist, Looted