“Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing features the work of 71 artists and collectives, working across media and disciplines, representing evolving notions of American art. The 2024 Biennial marks the 81st edition of the Museum’s landmark exhibition series, the longest-running survey of American art, and addresses many of the most relevant ideas of our time.

Organized thematically, the exhibition presents artwork across most of the Museum’s gallery spaces and through a robust series of film and performance programs available at the Museum and online. The 2024 Biennial focuses on notions of ‘the real.’ This examination of reality is highlighted through various throughlines and connections between artists, material, and ideas and acknowledges that today, society is at a critical inflection point. This apex has been brought on by the introduction of machine learning models to daily life and media, including the use of artificial intelligence, and society’s complex relationship to the body, the fluidity of identity, and the precariousness of the natural world.” — Whitney Museum of American Art

Installation views of Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better than the Real Thing at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 20–August 11, 2024. Photos by Corrado Serra.

Title image: Tourmaline. Pollinator, 2022. Video, black-and-white and color; 5:08 min. Courtesy the artist and Chapter NY. Photograph by Corrado Serra.

The 2024 Whitney Biennial is organized by Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator and Meg Onli, Curator at Large, with Min Sun Jeon and Beatriz Cifuentes.