Whitney Biennial 2017

Mar 17–June 11, 2017

Exhibition artists

Staircase between terraces at the Whitney

1

Zarouhie Abdalian

Born 1982 in New Orleans, LA
Lives in New Orleans, LA

White building and evergreen tree in arid landscape

2

Basma Alsharif

Born 1983 in Kuwait City, Kuwait
Lives in Los Angeles, CA

3

Jo Baer

Born 1929 in Seattle, WA
Lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands

View of sprawling city from a hill

4

Eric Baudelaire

Born 1973 in Salt Lake City, UT
Lives in Paris, France

5

Robert Beavers

Born 1949 in Brookline, MA
Lives in Berlin, Germany and Falmouth, MA

6

Larry Bell

Born 1939 in Chicago, IL
Lives in Taos, NM, and Los Angeles, CA

A grid made from wood

7

Matt Browning

Born 1984 in Redmond, WA
Lives in Seattle, WA

8

Susan Cianciolo

Born 1969 in Providence, RI
Lives in Brooklyn, NY

Hazy view of trees and a small flame along lakeshore

9

Mary Helena Clark

Born 1983 in Santee, SC
Lives in Hamilton, NY

Mannequin with cone shaped head covered in pieces of cloth

10

Raúl de Nieves

Born 1983 in Morelia, Mexico
Lives in Brooklyn, NY

Photograph of portrait hanging on an abandoned building wall

11

John Divola

Born 1949 in Santa Monica, CA
Lives in Riverside, CA

Man standing at desk point to computer

12

Celeste Dupuy-Spencer

Born 1979 in New York, NY
Lives in Los Angeles, CA

13

Rafa Esparza

Born 1981 in Los Angeles, CA
Lives in Los Angeles, CA

Woman taking hearing test

14

Kevin Jerome Everson

Born 1965 in Mansfield, OH
Lives in Charlottesville, VA

Large yellow gourd-shaped sculpture covered in black writing and nails

15

GCC

(Nanu Al-Hamad, Abdullah Al-Mutairi, Aziz Alqatami, Barrak Alzaid, Khalid al Gharaballi, Amal Khalaf, Fatima Al Qadiri, and Monira Al Qadiri)
Founded 2013

Oto

16

Oto Gillen

Born 1984 in New York, NY
Lives in New York, NY

17

Samara Golden

Born 1973 in Ann Arbor, MI
Lives in Los Angeles, CA

Sticker with white words and geometric shapes on window pane

18

Casey Gollan and Victoria Sobel

Casey Gollan
Born 1991 in Los Angeles, CA
Lives in New York, NY

Victoria Sobel
Born 1990 in Washington, DC
Lives in New York, NY

Word "Jugoexport" superimposed over image of snakes

19

Irena Haiduk in collaboration with jesus.d and Daniel Sauter

Biographical information not given

Photograph of Harris in bed with Caravaggio poster in background

20

Lyle Ashton Harris

Born 1965 in Bronx, NY
Lives in New York, NY

Figure with images projected on face standing against red background

21

Tommy Hartung

Born 1979 in Akron, OH
Lives in Queens, NY

Two tall pillars stand upright in a grassy field under a cloudy sky, with a large skull-like bone in the foreground.

22

Sky Hopinka

Born 1984 in Bellingham, WA
Lives in Milwaukee, WI

An abstract landscape in bright green, orange, and red.

23

Shara Hughes

Born 1981 in Atlanta, GA
Lives in Brooklyn, NY

Two rectangular metal boxes containing wooden sheets, mounted on the wall of a conference room

24

Aaron Flint Jamison

Born 1979 in Billings, MT
Lives in Portland, OR and Seattle, WA

abstract painted sculptural pieces hanging from black straps

25

KAYA

(Kerstin Brätsch and Debo Eilers)
Founded 2010

An installation of multimedia in a gallery.

26

Jon Kessler

Born 1957 in Yonkers, NY
Lives in New York, NY

Deformed mannequin-like figures climbing ropes hanging from ceiling

27

Ajay Kurian

Born 1984 in Baltimore, MD
Lives in Brooklyn, NY

Portrait of a woman and a young boy in a living room

28

Deana Lawson

Born 1979 in Rochester, NY
Lives in Brooklyn, NY

Film crew working in tornado-like storm

29

An-My Lê

Born 1960 in Saigon, Vietnam
Lives in Brooklyn, NY

Street crowded with people, woman in foreground smoking cigarette

30

Leigh Ledare

Born 1976 in Seattle, WA
Lives in New York, NY

A video still of person putting a rock in their mouth.

31

Dani Leventhal

Born 1972 in Columbus, OH
Lives in Columbus, OH

Figures emitting light from various orifices

32

Tala Madani

Born 1981 in Tehran, Iran
Lives in Los Angeles, CA

Cube-shaped steel sculpture

33

Park McArthur

Born 1984 in Raleigh, NC
Lives in New York, NY

Piece of tree trunk on a wrought-iron bar in gridded base

34

Harold Mendez

Born 1977 in Chicago, IL
Lives in Chicago, IL, and Los Angeles, CA

Abstract painting in black, blue, and shades of red.

35

Carrie Moyer

Born 1960 in Detroit, MI
Lives in Brooklyn, NY

Abstract piece in red, black, white, and gray

36

Ulrike Müller

Born 1971 in Brixlegg, Austria
Lives in Brooklyn, NY

Young man holding electronic device

37

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz

Born 1972 in San Juan, PR
Lives in San Juan, PR

38

Julien Nguyen

Born 1990 in Washington, DC
Lives in Los Angeles, CA

Large boat in tropical setting

39

Tuan Andrew Nguyen

Born 1976 in Saigon, Vietnam
Lives in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

A painting of two people lounging on a couch and reading the newspaper with a colorfully patterned background.

40

Aliza Nisenbaum

Born 1977 in Mexico City, Mexico
Lives in Brooklyn, NY

Various artworks inside wooden compartments

41

Occupy Museums

(Arthur Polendo, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Kenneth Pietrobono, Noah Fischer, and Tal Beery)
Founded 2011

Grid-like structure of objects hung on wall with framed document and liquor bottle

42

Pope.L aka William Pope.L

Born 1955 in Newark, NJ
Lives in Chicago, IL

List of twelve months with occult names

43

Porpentine Charity Heartscape

Born 1987
Lives in Oakland, CA

Fence obscuring view of field

44

Postcommodity

(Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez, and Kade L. Twist)
Founded 2007

Person standing on balcony dressed as the Statue of Liberty

45

Puppies Puppies

Born 1989 in Dallas, TX
Lives in Roswell, NM

Tree branch bathed in purple light

46

Asad Raza

Born 1974 in Buffalo, NY
Lives in New York, NY

sculptural chair

47

Jessi Reaves

Born 1986 in Portland, OR
Lives in Brooklyn, NY

Sculptures of legs supporting work of art

48

John Riepenhoff

Born 1982 in Milwaukee, WI
Lives in Milwaukee, WI

Classroom desks and chairs in a gallery.

49

Chemi Rosado-Seijo

Born 1973 in Vega Alta, PR
Lives in San Juan and Naranjito, PR

Typed document.

50

Cameron Rowland

Born 1988 in Philadelphia, PA
Lives in Queens, NY

Colorful abstract painting of people and insects

51

Dana Schutz

Born 1976 in Livonia, MI
Lives in Brooklyn, NY

Two banners. One that reads "I'm so black that I blind you," and another depicting a pencil stabbing an eye.

52

Cauleen Smith

Born 1967 in Riverside, CA
Lives in Chicago, IL

Painting of the book Censorship Now

53

Frances Stark

Born 1967 in Newport Beach, CA
Lives in Los Angeles, CA

54

Maya Stovall

Born 1982 in Detroit, MI
Lives in Detroit, MI

55

Henry Taylor

Born 1958 in Oxnard, CA
Lives in Los Angeles, CA

collage of black, white, grey, and metallic images

56

Leslie Thornton and James Richards

Leslie Thornton
Born 1951 in Oak Ridge, TN
Lives in Brooklyn, NY

James Richards
Born 1983 in Cardiff, United Kingdom
Lives in Berlin, Germany, and London, United Kingdom

Abstract painting in pink, brown, and black

57

Torey Thornton

Born 1990 in Macon, GA
Lives in Brooklyn, NY

58

Kaari Upson

Born 1972 in San Bernardino, CA
Lives in Los Angeles, CA

Dark gallery with abstract images on screens on either side of a doorway.

59

Kamasi Washington

Born 1981 in Los Angeles, CA
Lives in Los Angeles, CA

60

Leilah Weinraub

Born 1979 in Los Angeles, CA
Lives in Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY

Hooded figure with shadowed face

61

James N. Kienitz Wilkins

Born in 1983 in Boston, MA
Lives in Brooklyn, NY

62

Jordan Wolfson

Born 1980 in New York, NY
Lives in New York, NY

Gloved hands slicing flower petals in petri dish

63

Anicka Yi

Born 1971 in Seoul, South Korea
Lives in Queens, NY

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