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

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