New York
Exhibitions
David Hammons: Day's End
A monumental public art installation by David Hammons in Hudson River Park, directly across from the Whitney Museum, inspired by Gordon Matta-Clark's 1975 intervention.
Nancy Baker Cahill: CENTO
An augmented reality creature hovers over the Whitney Museum's terrace, inviting visitors to add feathers and witness its evolution through a participatory app experience.
Rashid Johnson: New Poetry
A site-specific steel-grid sculpture by Rashid Johnson extends from the Whitney's interior onto its plaza, combining ceramic vessels, poetry books, shea butter blocks, and video in an illuminated structure designed to mirror the function of a brain.
Dyani White Hawk: Nourish
A site-specific ceramic tile installation by Dyani White Hawk that draws from Lakota artistic traditions and engages with American Modernism. The work creates a space of rest and reflection through carefully chosen color palettes.
Untitled (America)
A sweeping survey of American art from 1900 to the early 1980s exploring how artists have engaged with landscape, memory, consumerism, and abstraction.
INFANT: BANNED SKILLS
A nonlinear digital experience by artist duo INFANT exploring xenoformalism through the bouba-kiki effect, combining science fiction, gaming, and cultural history.
Memo Akten & Katie Hofstadter: The Thinking Ocean
An immersive digital artwork that simulates a living ocean, blurring the boundaries between fluid dynamics and computational logic through procedurally generated underwater environments.
Mabel Dwight: Cool Head, Warm Heart
A retrospective of Mabel Dwight's lithographs celebrating the people and places of New York, from the early 20th century through the 1950s.
Leo Castañeda: Camoflux Recall Grotto
A web-based game commissioned for the 2026 Whitney Biennial where players cultivate gardens in a primordial landscape inspired by the Amazon and Everglades, blending organic and cybernetic worlds.
Hyundai Terrace Commission: Kelly Akashi
Los Angeles artist Kelly Akashi presents a site-specific sculptural installation on the Whitney's fifth-floor terrace, part of the 2026 Biennial. The work addresses loss and resilience following the Eaton Fire.
Taína H. Cruz: I Saw the Future and It Smiled Back
A monumental public artwork by Taína H. Cruz adorns the Gansevoort Street billboard across from the Whitney, part of the 82nd Whitney Biennial.
Andy Warhol Family Album
Rarely seen Polaroid photographs from 1972–1973 document Andy Warhol's inner circle and daily life, showcasing his obsessive documentation practice through the medium he favored.
Frank WANG Yefeng: The Levitating Perils #2
A series of five animations exploring identity and cultural displacement through a playful yet unsettling red dragon derived from historical 'Yellow Peril' imagery and anti-Asian propaganda.
Robert Nideffer: 12 Years in Azeroth – The Journey Begins
Robert Nideffer's 12 Years in Azeroth - The Journey Begins fuses autobiography, fiction, and game design to explore a twelve-year immersion into the online game World of…
Whitney Biennial 2026
The eighty-second Whitney Biennial gathers fifty-six international and intergenerational artists exploring what 'American' art means today through diverse media and urgent contemporary concerns.
Roy Lichtenstein
A retrospective of the Pop Art pioneer's bold graphic works, from comic-inspired paintings to monumental sculptures and prints.