“Opening March 8, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents Whitney Biennial 2026, the 82nd edition of the Museum’s landmark exhibition series and the longest-running survey of American art. Featuring fifty-six artists, duos, and collectives across most of the Museum’s galleries, the Biennial is accompanied by a robust schedule of performance and public programs at the Museum and online. Co-organized by Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer, the exhibition brings together artists working across media and disciplines, reflecting evolving notions of American art. 

Whitney Biennial 2026 offers a vivid, atmospheric survey shaped by a moment of profound complexity. The work on view examines varied forms of relationality, from interspecies and familial kinships to geopolitical entanglements, technological affinities, shared mythologies, and the infrastructures that support and constrain contemporary life. Rather than offering a definitive answer to life today, the exhibition foregrounds mood and texture, inviting visitors into environments that evoke tension, tenderness, humor, and unease, while proposing imaginative, unruly, and unexpected forms of coexistence.”— Whitney Museum of American Art

Whitney Biennial 2026 is co-organized by Whitney curators Marcela Guerrero, DeMartini Family Curator, and Drew Sawyer, Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography, with Beatriz Cifuentes, Biennial Curatorial Assistant, and Carina Martinez, Rubio Butterfield Family Fellow.

Title image: Installation view of Whitney Biennial 2026 (Whitney Museum of American Art, March 8–August 2026). From left to right: Emilie Louise Gossiaux, Kong Play, 2026; Emilie Louise Gossiaux, Becoming Part of the Forest 2, 2025; Emilie Louise Gossiaux, The Marriage of Hand and Paw, 2025; Emilie Louise Gossiaux, In Dreams We’ll See Again, 2025; Andrea Fraser, Untitled (I-V), 2024; Carmen de Monteflores, Four Women, 1969. Photograph by Darian DiCanno/BFA.com. © BFA 2026 

Images courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art.