Whitney Biennial 2006:
Day for Night
Mar 2–May 28, 2006
The Whitney's signature panoramic survey of the latest in American art is the seventy-third in the series of Annuals and Biennials inaugurated by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in 1932. The 2006 Biennial examines contemporary art-making in America at a moment of profound global change. The exhibition, titled Day for Night after François Truffaut's 1973 film, conjures a mood of dark intensity, shifting between beauty and degradation, doubt and conformity, the seductive and the strange.
Artists
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Steven Parrino
11 works in the collection
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Mathias Poledna
2 works in the collection
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Jennie Smith
1 work in the collection
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Rudolf Stingel
2 works in the collection
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Ryan Trecartin
5 works in the collection
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Jordan Wolfson
6 works in the collection
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Kenneth Anger
5 works in the collection
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Carter
1 work in the collection
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Paul Chan
3 works in the collection
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Dan Colen
1 work in the collection
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Anne Collier
16 works in the collection
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Trisha Donnelly
2 works in the collection
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Pierre Huyghe
2 works in the collection
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Andrew Lampert
1 work in the collection
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Josephine Meckseper
7 works in the collection
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Diana Thater
6 works in the collection
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Christopher Williams
9 works in the collection
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T. Kelly Mason
1 work in the collection
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George Butler
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Jay Heikes
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T. Kelly Mason and Diana Thater
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Francesco Vezzoli
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Critical Art Ensemble
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Troy Brauntuch
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Louise Bourque
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Natalie Jeremijenko/Bureau Of Inverse Technology
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Christina Battle
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Dominic Angerame
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Dawolu Jabari Anderson
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Dan Graham, Tony Oursler, Rodney Graham, Laurent P. Berger, and Japanther
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Rodney Graham
5 works in the collection
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Rirkrit Tiravanija
7 works in the collection
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Mark di Suvero
7 works in the collection
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Chris Vasell
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The Wrong Gallery
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The Center For Land Use Interpretation
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James Benning
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Bernadette Corporation
8 works in the collection
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Mark Bradford
18 works in the collection
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Carolina Caycedo
3 works in the collection
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Tony Conrad
8 works in the collection
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Jimmie Durham
2 works in the collection
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David Gatten
1 work in the collection
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Joe Gibbons
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Robert Gober
49 works in the collection
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Mark Grotjahn
5 works in the collection
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Matthew Day Jackson
3 works in the collection
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Cameron Jamie
3 works in the collection
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Lewis Klahr
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Jutta Koether
2 works in the collection
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Liz Larner
4 works in the collection
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Florian Maier-Aichen
4 works in the collection
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Monica Majoli
1 work in the collection
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Yuri Masnyj
1 work in the collection
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Adam McEwen
8 works in the collection
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Marilyn Minter
10 works in the collection
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Jim O’Rourke
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Ed Paschke
3 works in the collection
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Robert A. Pruitt
4 works in the collection
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Richard Serra
24 works in the collection
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Gedi Sibony
5 works in the collection
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Dash Snow
1 work in the collection
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Reena Spaulings
8 works in the collection
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Angela Strassheim
2 works in the collection
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Sturtevant
2 works in the collection
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Kelley Walker
3 works in the collection
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Nari Ward
3 works in the collection
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Aaron Young
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Spencer Sweeney
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Billy Sullivan
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Studio Film Club
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Zoe Strauss
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Michael Snow
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Jennifer Revves
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Todd Norsten
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Taylor Mead
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Dorothy Iannone
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Anthony Burdin
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Amy Blakemore
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Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla
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Otabenga Jones and Associates
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Kori Newkirk
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Jesús “Bubu” Negrón
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JP Munro
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Matthew Monahan
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Momus
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Marie Losier
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Jeanne Liotta
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Hanna Liden
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Lisa Lapinski
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Daniel Johnston
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Deva Graf
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Urs Fischer
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Kenya Evans
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Deep Dish Television Network
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Jamal Cyrus
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Martha Colburn
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Ira Cohen
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Lori Cheatle and Daisy Wright
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Doug Henry
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Hannah Greely
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Peter Doig
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Lucas DeGiulio
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Miles Davis
Installation Photography
In the News
“This [biennial] is partly about preaching to the converted. It is packaged—branded might be the better word—as a show long on collaboration and open-endedness: several shows under one roof. But it has other goals too. You wouldn’t say bliss is one of them.” —The New York Times
“Unlike most large group shows, [the Biennial] has a point of view. Because [it] is a frankly political exhibition, it demands to be judged within [the curators’] chosen political terms.” —The Burlington Magazine
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