Exhibitions

An abstract painting with geometric shapes and swirls of color on a beige background.

Julie Mehretu

Mar 25–Aug 8, 2021

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

Madeline Hollander: Flatwing

Mar 25–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–Oct 3, 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–October 4, 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.

At the center of a kaleidoscopic seascape butterflying into mirrored sides, a loon spreads its wings below a red exit sign, infinity symbol, animal and human silhouettes, and stylized text.

Andrea Carlson:
Red Exit

Jan 25–Sept 2021

Birds-eye view of large steel sculpture in the shape of a building outline, extending from the Manhattan shoreline into the Hudson River, with a view of the New Jersey skyline in the background.

David Hammons: Day's End 

On Permanent View

Upcoming exhibitions

Martine Gutierrez

Sept 2021–Mar 2022

A seemingly melancholy man is sitting down and looking downward off in the distance.

Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing

Fall 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–Feb 27, 2022

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

Whitney Biennial 2022

Apr–Aug 2022

Online

artport is the Whitney Museum’s portal to net art and digital arts, and an online gallery space for commissioned net art projects.

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Overlaid gray digital text boxes against the background of a black circle with a design of white gears and red-orange swirls

UBERMORGEN, Leonardo Impett, Joasia Krysa: The Next Biennial Should Be Curated by a Machine

2021

A mirror overlaid on a screenshot of whitney.org containing an avatar standing at their desk viewed from behind

LaTurbo Avedon:  Morning Mirror / Evening Mirror

March 3, 2021–

An overhead shot of a hand painting.

Michael Mandiberg: Live Study

2019–

Past exhibitions

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Fourteen members of the Kamoinge Workshop—all Black photographers—pose in two rows for a group portrait

Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop

Nov 21, 2020–Mar 28, 2021

Nothing Is So Humble: Prints from Everyday Objects

Nov 20, 2020–Apr 18, 2021

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

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

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–Mar 2, 2021

Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist

Mar 13–Nov 1, 2020

Sunrise

Sunset

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

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