Whitney Biennial 2004
Mar 11–May 30, 2004
The Whitney Biennial 2004 was curated by Chrissie Iles, Shamim M. Momin, and Debra Singer.
Artists
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Andrew Noren
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Marina Abramovic
1 work in the collection
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Laylah Ali
1 work in the collection
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David Altmejd
23 works in the collection
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Cory Arcangel
8 works in the collection
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assume vivid astro focus
10 works in the collection
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Hernan Bas
1 work in the collection
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Dike Blair
2 works in the collection
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Jeremy Blake
5 works in the collection
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Mel Bochner
15 works in the collection
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Andrea Bowers
4 works in the collection
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Slater Bradley
6 works in the collection
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Stan Brakhage
3 works in the collection
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Cecily Brown
3 works in the collection
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Tom Burr
2 works in the collection
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Ernesto Caivano
14 works in the collection
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Maurizio Cattelan
1 work in the collection
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Liz Craft
1 work in the collection
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Amy Cutler
4 works in the collection
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Taylor Davis
1 work in the collection
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Sue DeBeer
2 works in the collection
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Sam Durant
4 works in the collection
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Spencer Finch
2 works in the collection
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Robert Fischer
1 work in the collection
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Morgan Fisher
3 works in the collection
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Barnaby Furnas
4 works in the collection
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Sandra Gibson
1 work in the collection
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Jack Goldstein
24 works in the collection
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Katy Grannan
2 works in the collection
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Wade Guyton
14 works in the collection
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Mark Handforth
1 work in the collection
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Alex Hay
1 work in the collection
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David Hockney
1 work in the collection
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Jim Hodges
8 works in the collection
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Christian Holstad
1 work in the collection
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Roni Horn
8 works in the collection
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Craigie Horsfield
1 work in the collection
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Peter Hutton
1 work in the collection
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Emily Jacir
2 works in the collection
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Mary Kelly
2 works in the collection
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Terence Koh
1 work in the collection
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Yayoi Kusama
3 works in the collection
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Sharon Lockhart
2 works in the collection
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Robert Longo
10 works in the collection
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Robert Mangold
14 works in the collection
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Cameron Martin
3 works in the collection
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Anthony McCall
3 works in the collection
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Paul McCarthy
41 works in the collection
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Julie Mehretu
17 works in the collection
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Jonas Mekas
3 works in the collection
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Aleksandra Mir
1 work in the collection
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Dave Muller
4 works in the collection
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Julie Murray
1 work in the collection
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Lee Mingwei
1 work in the collection
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Robyn O'Neil
2 works in the collection
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Catherine Opie
11 works in the collection
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Laura Owens
9 works in the collection
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Raymond Pettibon
54 works in the collection
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Elizabeth Peyton
11 works in the collection
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Chloe Piene
3 works in the collection
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Jack Pierson
20 works in the collection
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Richard Prince
57 works in the collection
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Luis Recoder
2 works in the collection
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Liisa Roberts
3 works in the collection
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Dario Robleto
2 works in the collection
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Matthew Ronay
1 work in the collection
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Aïda Ruilova
1 work in the collection
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James Siena
11 works in the collection
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Amy Sillman
26 works in the collection
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Zak Smith
1 work in the collection
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Yutaka Sone
3 works in the collection
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Alec Soth
4 works in the collection
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Catherine Sullivan
1 work in the collection
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Eve Sussman
2 works in the collection
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Erick Swenson
1 work in the collection
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Fred Tomaselli
10 works in the collection
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Tam Van Tran
2 works in the collection
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Banks Violette
1 work in the collection
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T. J. Wilcox
25 works in the collection
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Andrea Zittel
4 works in the collection
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Sam Green and Bill Siegel
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Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July
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Tracy and the Plastics (Wynne Greenwood)
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Golan Levin
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Anne-Marie Schleiner, Brody Condon, and Joan Leandre (the "Velvet-Strike" team)
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SIMPARCH
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Pip Chodorov
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Santiago Cucullu
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Lecia Dole-Recio
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Kim Fisher
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James Fotopoulos
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Katie Grinnan
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Isaac Julien
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Glenn Kaino
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Noémie Lafrance
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Los Super Elegantes
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Virgil Marti
1 work in the collection
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Bruce McClure
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Julie Atlas Muz
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Jim O’Rourke
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Deborah Stratman
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Jim Trainor
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Eric Wesley
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Olav Westhalen
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Bradley Eros
10 works in the collection
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Harrell Fletcher
2 works in the collection
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Paul B. Davis
1 work in the collection
Installation Photography

Installation view of the Whitney Biennial 2004 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, May 11, 2004–May 30, 2004). Left to right: Tam Van Tran Beetle, Manifesto IV, 2002; Cameron Martin, Pure Phase Two, 2002; Cameron Martin, Untitled (100), 2001; Cameron Martin, Above the Salt, 2004. Floor: Erick Swenson, Untitled, 2001. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson


Installation view of the Whitney Biennial 2004 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, May 11, 2004–May 30, 2004). Left to Right: Julie Mehretu, Rise of the New Suprematists, 2001; Tam Van Tran, Beetle Manifesto IV, 2002; Tam Van Tran, Beetle Manifesto XI, 2004. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson


Installation view of the Whitney Biennial 2004 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, May 11, 2004–May 30, 2004). Left to right: Olav Westphalen, Statue(seated), 2003; Olav Westphalen, Statue (standing), 2003; Amy Cutler, Castoroide Colony, 2003; Amy Cutler, Tiger Mending, 2003; Amy Cutler, Saddleback, 2002; Amy Cutler, Camp Site, 2002. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson


Installation view of the Whitney Biennial 2004 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, May 11, 2004–May 30, 2004). Left to right: Glenn Kaino, Desktop Operation: There’s No Place Like Home (10th Example of Rapid Dominance: Em City), 2003; Fred Tomaselli, Breathing Head, 2002; Fred Tomaselli, Airborne Event, 2003. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson


Installation view of the Whitney Biennial 2004 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, May 11, 2004–May 30, 2004). Left to right: Glen Kaino, Desktop Operation: There’s No Place Like Home (10th Example of Rapid Dominance: Em City), 2003; Mel Bochner, Meaningless, 2003; Mel Bochner, Nothing, 2003. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson


Installation view of the Whitney Biennial 2004 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, May 11, 2004–May 30, 2004). Left to right: Robert Longo, Untitled (Hell’s Gate), 2001; Emily Jacir, Munir, 2001–3; Taylor Davis, Untitled (pink rosa), 2003; Wade Guyton, Untitled, 2003; Wade Guyton, Untitled (Gabo 28), 2002; Wade Guyton, Untitled, 2003; Wade Guyton, Untitled Action Sculpture (Breuer), 2003. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson


Installation view of the Whitney Biennial 2004 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, May 11, 2004–May 30, 2004). Left to right; David Hockney, Richard Schmidt, 2003; David Hockney, David Graves, 2003; David Hockney, Ann graves, 2003; David Hockney, Gregory Evans, 2003; (Bottom) David Hockney, Cactus Garden ISV, L.A. Studio, 2003; David Hockney, Interior with Lamp, 2003; David Hockney, Saturday Rain II, 2003; David Hockney, View from Terrace III, 2003. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson


Installation view of the Whitney Biennial 2004 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, May 11, 2004–May 30, 2004). Left to right: David Hockney, Gregory Evans, 2003; David Hockney, View from the Terrace III, 2003; Elizabeth Peyton, Walt, 2003; Elizabeth Peyton, Julian, 2003; Elizabeth Peyton, Maritime(E.P.), 2003; Elizabeth Peyton, Nick…, 2003; Elizabeth Peyton, September (Ben), 2001; Elizabeth Peyton, Live to Ride (E.P.), 2003. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson


Installation view of the Whitney Biennial 2004 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, May 11, 2004–May 30, 2004). Left to right: Jack Pierson, Self Portrait #4, 2003; Jack Pierson, Self Portrait #6, 2003; Jack Pierson, Self Portrait #1, 2003; Jack Pierson, Self Portrait #3, 2003. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson


Installation view of the Whitney Biennial 2004 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, May 11, 2004–May 30, 2004). Left to right: Matthew Ronay, Decoration Declaration, 2003; Matthew Ronay, The Impressions/Curtis Mayfield, 2003; Matthew Ronay, Infected Carrots, 2003; Matthew Ronay, Irreversible Algorithm, 2003; Matthew Ronay, Mandrill, 2003. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson


Installation view of the Whitney Biennial 2004 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, May 11, 2004–May 30, 2004). Left to right: Katie Grinnan, Dreamcatcher, 2003; Katie Grinnan, Midnight at Noon, 2003; Katie Grinnan, Hubcap Woman, 2003; Sam Durant, Legality Is Not Morality, 2003. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson

In the News
“When the 2004 Biennial opens this spring, the often controversial survey of contemporary art will extend well beyond the walls of the Whitney Museum of American Art. There will be art from one end of Central Park to the other . . .” —The New York Times
“This survey [. . .] remains upbeat and ingratiating, almost polite, on the surface at least, with a utopian streak and a youth-heavy emphasis on gloss and craft. Politics, while hardly ignored [. . .], exchange claims of affliction for a greater emphasis on formal allure.” —The New York Times
“In general, the show acknowledges the New York establishment taste that the last biennial, to its cost, ignored.” —The New York Times
“There is plenty of dross at the 2004 Whitney Biennial, but it’s the same dross that any thorough survey of the art world would reveal. Current trends correctly noted by the curators, and represented in this show, include sleepy abstraction, retro psychedelia and neoconservative figure painting.” —The Washington Post
“Extensive surveys of contemporary art are seldom as polished as was this year’s Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art [. . .], ensuring that its curators [. . .] generated lively debate around a show that was coherent and fluid.” —The Burlington Magazine
“. . . allowing for its essentially capricious nature, the 2004 Biennial seemed to be one of the better ones. The usual ‘ageism’ prevailed [. . .] but there was much less aggressive political art or designed-to-disgust sociological commentary than in other recent Biennials. The videos seemed less intrusive and less raucous, and the installation was generally clearer and less jam-packed with disparate works. This Biennial was polite.” —The Hudson Review
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