Whitney Biennale 2022 Time and Artists Participating
After a year's delay caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Whitney Museum of American Art has announced the name of 63 artists and collectors who will participate in Whitney Biennial 2022. The Whitney Museum will be hosting the exhibition entitled "Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It's Kept" beginning April 6, and continuing until September 5. Artists working today will participate in this event, including Daniel Joseph Martinez, Coco Fusco, Renée Green, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Nayland Blake, Raven Chacon, Tony Cokes, Alex Da Corte, Ellen Gallagher, EJ Hill, Alfredo Jaar, Julie Tolentino, Rick Lowe, Rodney McMillian, Adam Pendleton, Lucy Raven, Guadalupe Rosales, and Kandis Williams.
This exhibition will be held by two curators of Whitney Museum named David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards. David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards, curators at Whitney Museum, are organizing this exhibition. The curators noted in a statement the planning for the biennale began a year before the America 2020 election, the pandemic, and the racial demonstrations that were held across the country after George Floyd's murder. It is also stated in the statement: "The Whitney Biennial is an ongoing experiment, the result of a shared commitment to artists and the work they do,… While many of these underlying conditions are not new, their overlapping, intensity and sheer ubiquity created a context in which past, present, and future folded into one another. We’ve organized the exhibition to reflect these precarious and improvised times. The Biennial primarily serves as a forum for artists, and the works that will be presented reflect their enigmas, the things that perplex them, the important questions they are asking."
Since its first edition in 1932, Whitney Biennial is regarded as the most visited and most multilateral exhibition in the U.S. by both enthusiasts and detractors. Its most notorious edition was the 1993 edition, which was widely panned for its focus on identity politics. Recent years have seen the show reevaluated for its groundbreaking approach to dealing with the realities that people of color face in the United States as well as the realities that artists of color face within the art world.
Andrew Roberts, born in 1995 in Tijuana, Mexico, is the youngest artist participating in the biennial, while Awilda Sterling-Duprey, born in 1947 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is the oldest.
Additionally, the works of deceased artists including Steve Cannon, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Denyse Thomasos, and Jason Rhoades will also be on display. Participants also will include artists who work outside of the United States, like artists based in two cities on the U.S.-Mexico border as well as First Nation artists in Canada an this is a way to explore the "dynamics of borders and what constitutes 'American.'"
