Whitney Biennial 1979
Feb 6–Apr 1, 1979
The Whitney Biennial 1979 was curated by John G. Hanhardt, Barbara Haskell, Richard Marshall, Mark Segal, and Patterson Sims.
View the full exhibition catalogue at the Internet Archive.
Artists
- Robert Arneson
- Alice Aycock
- Bruce Baillie
- John Baldessari
- Jennifer Bartlett
- William Beckley
- Billy Al Bengston
- James Benning
- Mel Bochner
- Jonathan Borofsky
- Stan Brakhage
- Robert Breer
- Jane Brettschneider
- Roger Brown
- Barbara Buckner
- Deborah Butterfield
- Chuck Close
- Bruce Conner
- Manuel De Landa
- Donna Dennis
- Dennis Evans
- Jackie Ferrara
- Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn
- Richard Foreman
- Hollis Frampton
- Mary Frank
- Howard Fried
- Gregory Gillespie
- Brenda Goodman
- Larry Gottheim
- Robert Graham
- Philip Guston
- Walter Gutman
- Martha Haslanger
- David Haxton
- Patrick Hogan
- Nancy Holt
- Ralph Humphrey
- Bryan Hunt
- Joan Jonas
- Alex Katz
- Craig Kauffman
- Ellsworth Kelly
- Joyce Kozloff
- Lois Lane
- Sol LeWitt
- Roy Lichtenstein
- Kim MacConnel
- Christa Maiwald
- Robert Mangold
- Brice Marden
- Jonas Mekas
- Robert Moskowitz
- Elizabeth Murray
- Judith Murray
- Rita Myers
- Robert Nelson
- Philip Pearlstein
- Jody Pinto
- Kenneth Price
- Martin Puryear
- Christina Ramberg
- Anthony Ramos
- Edda Renouf
- Rodney Ripps
- Dorothea Rockburne
- Martha Rosler
- Susan Rothenberg
- Lucas Samaras
- Barbara Schwartz
- Richard Serra
- Joel Shapiro
- Paul Sharits
- Stuart Sherman
- Michael Singer
- Alexis Smith
- Warren Sonbert
- Alan Sondheim
- Frank Stella
- Donald Sultan
- James Surls
- George Trakas
- Bill Viola
- H.C. Westermann
- Christopher Wilmarth
- Jackie Winsor
- Joe Zucker
In the News
“The Whitney Biennials have a perfect history of critical disapprobation. This 1979 version forestalls complaints as regards omissions at the outset since no unifying premises are declared.” —The Burlington Magazine
“. . . a potpourri of current work in a dizzying variety of styles and media.” —The New York Times
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