• Whitney Biennial 2017

    Date posted: March 11, 2017 Author: jolanta
    Biennial curators Christopher Lew and Mia Locks. | Photo by Scott Rudd, Courtesy Whitney Museum.

    Mar 17–June 11, 2017

    The formation of self and the individual’s place in a turbulent society are among the key themes reflected in the work of the artists selected for the 2017 Whitney Biennial. The exhibition includes sixty-three participants, ranging from emerging to well-established individuals and collectives working in painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, film and video, photography, activism, performance, music, and video game design.

    The Whitney Biennial is the longest running survey of contemporary art in the United States, with a history of exhibiting the most promising and influential artists and provoking lively debate. The 2017 Biennial is the Museum’s seventy-eighth in a continuous series of Annual and Biennial exhibitions initiated by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in 1932. It is the first to be held in the Whitney’s downtown home at 99 Gansevoort Street, and the largest ever in terms of gallery space.

    The 2017 Whitney Biennial is co-curated by Christopher Y. Lew and Mia Locks.

    The film program is organized by Christopher Y. Lew, Mia Locks, and Aily Nash.

    Read more about the 2017 Biennial curators and advisors.

    Left, HENRY TAYLOR, “He’s Hear, and He’s Thair,” 2008 (acrylic and collage on canvas), sold for $60,000 this week at a Phillips New York auction. Among the most prominent artists participating in the biennial, Los Angeles-based Taylor’s work was on view at Blum & Poe earlier this month. At right, The work of multidisciplinary artist Lyle Ashton Harris intersects the personal and the political. A 2014 recipient of the David Driskell Prize from the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, he lives and works in New York. Shown, LYLE ASHTON HARRIS, “Lyle, London,” 1992, 2015 (Chromogenic print). | Collection of the artist; courtesy the artist.

    Left, HENRY TAYLOR, “He’s Hear, and He’s Thair,” 2008 (acrylic and collage on canvas), sold for $60,000 this week at a Phillips New York auction. Among the most prominent artists participating in the biennial, Los Angeles-based Taylor’s work was on view at Blum & Poe earlier this month. At right, The work of multidisciplinary artist Lyle Ashton Harris intersects the personal and the political. A 2014 recipient of the David Driskell Prize from the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, he lives and works in New York. Shown, LYLE ASHTON HARRIS, “Lyle, London,” 1992, 2015 (Chromogenic print). | Collection of the artist; courtesy the artist.

    2017 Biennial Artists

     

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