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This is an incomplete '''list of Whitney Biennial artists''' selected for the [[Whitney Biennial]] exhibitions of contemporary American art, at the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]] in [[New York, New York|New York City]], United States. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1932, the first biennial was in 1973. The Whitney show is generally regarded as one of the leading shows in the art world, often setting or leading trends in [[contemporary art]].<ref name="whitney-2010">{{cite web|work=[[Whitney Museum of American Art]] |title=2010 WHITNEY BIENNIAL |url=http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2010Biennial |accessdate=4 November 2012 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6Bvbg88VI?url=http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2010Biennial |archivedate=4 November 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

*[[Malcolm C.W. Bailey]]

*[[Lester van Winkle]]

<ref>https://Archive.org/Details/1973biennialexhi</ref>

*[[John Wenger (artist)|John Wenger]]

*[[Richard Thompson (cartoonist)|Richard Thompson]]

*[[Dominick Guida]]

*[[Barbara Quinn Roth]]

*[[Maxine Cole]]

*[[Robert J. Warrens]]

*[[Elyn Zimmerman]]

*[[David Anderson (artist)|David Anderson]]

*[[Cheryle Bowers]]

*[[Scott Miller (artist)|Scott Miller]]

*[[Edwin Rothfarb]]

*[[Joseph Clower]]

*[[Virginia Johnson (artist)|Virginia Johnson]]

*[[Todd McKie]]

*[[Kim MacConnel]]

*[[Connie Zehr]]

*[[Roland Ginzel]]

*[[Barbara Rossi (artist)|Barbara Rossi]]

*[[Miyoko Ito]]

*[[Philip Mullen]]

*[[Larry Ray Camp]]

*[[Judy Pfaff]]

*[[George Bures Miller|George Miller]]

*[[Jan Lee McComas]]

*[[George Green (artist)|George Green]]

*[[Anthony Ramos (artist)|Anthony Ramos]]

*[[Donald Roller Wilson]]

*[[Bill Viola]]

*[[Allen Edward Bertoldi]]

*[[Rudolph Montanez]]

*[[Richard George (artist)|Richard George]]

*[[Carl Palazzolo]]

*[[Philip Renteria]]

*[[Earl Staley]]

*[[Domingo Barreres]]

*[[Carol Lindsley]]

*[[Leonard L. Hunter]]

*[[John Scott Roloff]]

*[[Paul Dillon (artist)|Paul Dillon]]

*[[Andrew Spence (artist)|Andrew Spence]]

*[[Judith Suzanne Miller]]

*[[Gary Beydler]]

*[[Ilene Segalove]]

*[[Andrew Wilf]]

*[[Thomas Chimes]]

*[[Salvatore J. La Rosa]]

*[[Robert Thiele]]

*[[Paula Nees]]

*[[Thomas M. Uttech]]

*[[Carole Fisher]]

*[[Jim Byrne (artist)|Jim Byrne]]

*[[Stuart Nielson]]

*[[Barry Buxkamper]]

*[[Frank Rivera (artist)|Frank Rivera]]

*[[Edward R. Whiteman]]

*[[Carolynn Umlauf]]

*[[Frank Faulkner (artist)|Frank Faulkner]]

*[[Charles F. Gaines]]

*[[Ken Tisa]]

*[[Barbara Schwartz (artist)|Barbara Schwartz]]

*[[Robin Bruch]]

*[[Allen Ruppersberg]]

*[[Kaare Rafoss]]

*[[Pamela Jenrette]]

*[[Mark Christian Wethli]]

*[[Joe Di Giorgio]]

*[[Tomaso Puliafito]]

*[[Hermine Freed]]

*[[John Nargolies]]

*[[Sibyl L. Weil]]

*[[Abigail Gerd]]

*[[Beryl Korot]]

*[[Charles Simonds (artist)|Charles Simonds]]

*[[Christopher Darton]]

*[[Andy Mann]]

*[[James Stewart Perry|James Perry]]

*[[Marilyn Lenkowsky]]

*[[Judy Rifka]]

*[[Alan Turner (artist)|Alan Turner]]

*[[Frank Gillette]]

*[[John Schnell]]

*[[Kent Floeter]]

*[[Susanna Tanger]]

*[[Hass Murphy]]

*[[Mary McLean Obering]]

*[[Jerry Jones (artist)|Jerry Jones]]

*[[Rob Roy Norton, Jr.]]

*[[Hiroshi Murata]]

*[[Dennis Ashbaugh]]

*[[James R. Anderson (artist)|James R. Anderson]]

*[[Ron Gorchov]]

*[[Kathleen Ferguson (artist)|Kathleen Ferguson]]

*[[Elizabeth ann Knox]]

*[[Alan Uglow]]

*[[Patricia Lay]]

*[[Don Hazlitt]]

*[[David Reed (artist)|David Reed]]

*[[John Arvanites]]

*[[Robert Kushner]]

*[[Fred N. Guyot]]

*[[W.B. Bearman]]

*[[Paul Rotterdam]]

*[[Scott Burton]]

*[[Gene Beery]]

*[[Bill Richards (artist)|Bill Richards]]

*[[John E. Dowell, Jr.]]

*[[Edward Ross (artist)|Edward Ross]]

*[[Mary Warner (artist)|Mary Warner]]

*[[Mel Casas]]

*[[Barbara Strasen]]

*[[Paul Kos]]

*[[Ursula Schneider]]

*[[Joel Glassman]]

*[[Cristiano Camacho]]

*[[Lan Payne]]

*[[Cherie Raciti]]

*[[Carol Eckman]]

*[[Gregg Renfrow]]

*[[Rudy Serra]]

*[[George Bolling]]

*[[Samuel Scott (painter)|Samuel Scott]]

*[[Charles Garabedian]]

*[[John S. Gordon]]

*[[Wanda Westcoast]]

*[[Gene Sturman]]

*[[John Sturgeon (artist)|John Sturgeon]]

*[[Allan McCollum]]

*[[Phil Douglas Davis]]

*[[John Dickson (artist)|John Dickson]]

*[[Tom Green (artist)|Tom Green]]}}

*[[Jo ann Callis]]

*[[William H. Bailey|William Bailey]]

*[[Doug Anderson (photographer)|Doug Anderson]]

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*[[Willem De Kooning]]

*[[Doug and Mike Starn |The Starn Twins]]

*[[Michael J. Byron|Michael Byron]]

*[[William Jones (artist)|William Jones]]

The curators were Whitney museum director Maxwell L. Anderson, Michael Auping, Valerie Cassel, Hugh M. Davies, Jane Farver, Andrea Miller-Keller, and Lawrence R. Rinder.

*[[Rachel Harrison]]

The curators were Chrissie Iles, Shamim M. Momin, Debra Singer.

*[[Marina Abramovic]]

*[[Cameron Martin]]

The 73rd Whitney Biennial. The curators were [[Philippe Vergne]] and Chrissie Iles.

*[[Urs Fischer]]

<ref name="whitney-2006">{{cite web|work=[[Whitney Museum of American Art]] |title=Whitney Biennial 2006 Artists |url=http://whitney.org/www/2006biennial/artists.php |accessdate=4 November 2012 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6BvcZXeXH?url=http://whitney.org/www/2006biennial/artists.php |archivedate=4 November 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

*[[Rachel Harrison]]

*[[William E. Jones]]

<ref name="whitney-2008">{{cite web|work=[[Whitney Museum of American Art]] |title=Whitney Biennial 2008 Artists |url=http://whitney.org/www/2008biennial/www/?section=artists |accessdate=4 November 2012 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6Bvd2Xndq?url=http://whitney.org/www/2008biennial/www/?section=artists |archivedate=4 November 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The 75th Whitney Biennial/Annual ran February 25 to May 30, 2010.<ref name="whitney-2010" /> The curators were [[Francesco Bonami]] and associate Gary Carrion-Murayari.

The 76th Whitney Biennial/Annual ran March 1 through May 27, 2012.<ref name="whitney-2012">{{cite web|work=[[Whitney Museum of American Art]] |title=Whitney Biennial 2012 |url=http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2012Biennial |accessdate=4 November 2012 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6BvbKIiwc?url=http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2012Biennial |archivedate=4 November 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was curated by Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders.<ref name="whitney-2012" /> They co-curated the film program with Thomas Beard and [[Ed Halter]], co-founders of Light Industry, a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn.<ref name="whitney-2012" />

*[[Michael E. Smith]]

*[[Dan Walsh]]

The 2017 Biennial is the first to take place in the museum's much larger new location in the Meatpacking District. With 63 participants the exhibition runs from March 17 until June 11, and is co-curated by [[Christopher Y. Lew]] and [[Mia Locks]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/arts/design/here-comes-the-whitney-biennial-reflecting-the-tumult-of-the-times.html|title=Here Comes the Whitney Biennial, Reflecting the Tumult of the Times|first=Robin|last=Pogrebin|date=17 November 2016|publisher=|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artnews.com/2016/11/17/here-is-the-2017-whitney-biennial-list/|title=Here Is the 2017 Whitney Biennial List!|first=Nate|last=Freeman|date=17 November 2016|publisher=}}</ref>

* GCC (art collective) (Nanu al-Hamad, Abdullah al-Mutairi, Aziz Alqatami, Barrak Alzaid, Khalid al-Gharaballi, Amal Khalaf, Fatima al-Qadiri, Monira al-Qadiri)

*Oto Gillen

*KAYA (Kerstin Brätsch and Debo Eilers)

*Occupy Museums (Arthur Polendo, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Kenneth Pietrobono, Noah Fischer and Tal Beery)

*Pope.L a.k.a. [[William Pope.L]]

*Postcommodity (Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez, Kade L. Twist)

*Puppies Puppies

*Maya Stovall

*Torey Thornton

*Leslie Thornton and James Richards

The Biennial participating artists were announced in February 2019. Curated by [[Rujeko Hockley]] and [[Jane Panetta]], the show is open from May 17th to September 22nd, 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://whitney.org/exhibitions/2019-Biennial|title=Whitney Biennial 2019|website=whitney.org|language=en|access-date=2019-03-04}}</ref> One artist, [[Michael Rakowitz]], turned down the invitation to participate in response to the presence of the Whitney’s vice chair at the time, Warren Kanders, CEO of [[Safariland]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/arts/whitney-warren-kanders-resigns.html|title=Warren Kanders Quits Whitney Board After Tear Gas Protests|last=Pogrebin|first=Robin|date=2019-07-25|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-07-26|last2=Harris|first2=Elizabeth A.|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In mid-July 2019, eight artists requested for their work to be withdrawn from the 2019 Whitney Biennial in response to additional concerns over [[Safariland]]'s manufacturing of [[tear gas]] and police equipment.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/news/artists-withdraw-from-whitney-biennial-as-backlash-builds-against-warren-kanders-80360|title=Artists Withdraw from Whitney Biennial as Backlash Builds Against Warren Kanders|website=www.artforum.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-20}}</ref> Kanders resigned from his position on the board July 25th, 2019.<ref name=":0" />

*[[Alexandra Bell]]

*[[Forensic Architecture]] (withdrawn)<ref>https://www.artforum.com/news/forensic-architecture-becomes-eighth-exhibitor-to-withdraw-from-whitney-biennial-80366</ref>

*[[Las Nietas de Nonó (Lydela Nonó and Michel Nonó)]]

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[[Category:American art]]