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Current Exhibitions

Painting of a woman with a basket of calla lilies

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

Feb 17–May 17, 2020

Brightly-dressed women standing around and looking upward.

Cauleen Smith: Mutualities

Feb 17–May 17, 2020

Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist

Mar 13–June 28, 2020

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

Mar 20–July 5, 2020

An installation of artwork representing a kitchen.

Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019

Nov 22, 2019–Jan 2021

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

The Whitney's Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965

Jun 28, 2019–

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–Fall 2020

Upcoming Exhibitions

Nothing Is So Humble: Prints from Everyday Objects

Jun 12–Sept 2020

Julie Mehretu

June 26–Sept 20, 2020

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

July–Nov 2020

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

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

July–Oct 2020

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 

Coming Sept 2020

Three American flags on top of each other.

Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror

Oct 28, 2020–Feb 21, 2021

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An overhead shot of a hand painting.

Michael Mandiberg: Live Study

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–

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

Sam Lavigne and Tega Brain: New York Apartment

2020

Past Exhibitions

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A photo of various fruits and vegetables perched on wood plinths

fruits, vegetables; fruit and vegetable salad

Jan 15–Feb 17, 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–Mar 22, 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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Kristin Lucas, Speculative Habitat for Sponsored Seabirds

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