ARTISTS ANNOUNCED FOR WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2024:
EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING

New York, NY, January 25, 2024 — The Whitney Museum of American Art announces that 69
artists and 2 collectives will participate in Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real
Thing. Opening March 20, this is the 81st edition of the Museum’s landmark exhibition series,
the longest-running survey of American art. A presentation of the most relevant art and ideas ofour time, the artists featured in the Whitney Biennial showcase work across most of theMuseum's gallery space as well as through a robust series of film and performance programs
available at the Museum and online. Co-organized by two Whitney curators, Chrissie Iles andMeg Onli, the Biennial presents the work of contemporary artists working across media anddisciplines, representing evolving notions of American art.
“We sought to create an exhibition in the form of what artist Ligia Lewis calls a ‘dissonant
chorus,’ unharmonious in its collectivity,” said Iles and Onli. “It is striking how many artists arecontending with relationships between the psyche and the body, and the precarity of the pastfew years. Artists are continuing to grapple with history and identity; we have made an exhibition
that unfolds as a set of relations, exploring the challenges of coming together in a fractured
moment. We are thrilled to be working with such a rigorous and thoughtful group of artists tocreate a space where ideas and the materiality of the world can be examined and engaged.”“The Biennial is an engine that powers the Whitney forward, by introducing new artists andideas to our community and beyond. It is both what we do and who we are,” said ScottRothkopf, Alice Pratt Brown Director at the Whitney Museum. “The 2024 Biennial has been led
with both rigor and empathy by our brilliant co-organizers Chrissie and Meg, and I look forward
to welcoming this incredible group of artists to the Whitney as we collectively reimagine thelandscape of contemporary American art.”
Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing is a thematic exhibition focusing on
ideas of “the real” to acknowledge that, today, society is at an inflection point, in part brought onby artificial intelligence challenging what we consider to be real, as well as critical discussions
about identity. Many of the artists presenting works explore the fluidity of identity and form,
historical and current land stewardship, and concepts of embodiment, among other urgent
throughlines.
The 2024 Whitney Biennial is co-organized by Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator
at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Meg Onli, Curator-at-Large at the Whitney, withMin Sun Jeon and Beatriz Cifuentes. The performance program is organized by Iles and Onli,with guest curator Taja Cheek. The film program is organized by Iles and Onli, with guest
curators Korakrit Arunanondchai, asinnajaq, Greg de Cuir Jr., and Zackary Drucker.
COMPLETE LIST OF ARTISTS
Gallery Artists:
Holland Andrews(they/them)
Born 1988 in Orange, CA
Lives in the United States

Torkwase Dyson(she/her)
Born 1973 in Chicago, IL
Lives in Beacon, NY

Pippa Garner(she/her)
Born 1942 in Evanston, IL
Lives in Long Beach, CA

Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio(he/him)
Born 1990 in Los Angeles, CA
Lives in Los Angeles, CA

JJJJJerome Ellis(any/all)Born 1989 in Groton, CTLives in Norfolk, VA

Harmony Hammond(she/her)Born 1944 in Chicago, IL
Lives in Galisteo, NM

Dora Budor
Born 1984 in Zagreb, Croatia
Lives in New York, NY

Jes Fan(he/him/they/them)
Born 1990 in Scarborough,CanadaLives in Brooklyn, NY, and Hong
Kong

Sharon Hayes(she/her)
Born 1970 in Baltimore, MD
Lives in Philadelphia, PA

Seba Calfuqueo(she/her/they/them)
Born 1991 in Santiago, Chile
Lives in Ngulumapu, Wallmapu(Chile)Demian DinéYazhi’(they/them)
Born 1983 in Gallup, NM, (DinéBikéyah [Navajo Nation])
Lives in Portland, OR, andelsewhere

Nikita Gale
Born 1983 in Anchorage, AK,Dënéndeh and Dena’ina Ełnena
Lives in Los Angeles, CAektor garcia
Born 1985 in Red Bluff, CA
Lives in Mexico City, Mexico, andelsewhere

Holly Herndon and Mat
Dryhurst
Holly Herndon(she/her)
Born 1980 in Johnson City, TN
Mat Dryhurst(he/him)
Born 1984 in Birmingham, UKLive in Berlin, Germany

Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich(she/her)Born 1987 in New York, NY
Lives in New York, NY

K.R.M. Mooney(he/him)
Born 1990 in Seattle, WALives in Brooklyn, NYSer Serpas(she/her)
Born 1995 in East Los Angeles, CA
Lives in New York, NY

Suzanne Jackson(she/her)Born 1944 in St. Louis, MO
Lives in Savannah, GA

Dala Nasser
Born 1990 in Tyre, Lebanon
Lives in Beirut, Lebanon, andLondon, UK

Rose B. Simpson(she/her)
Born 1983 in Santa Fe, NM
Lives in Santa Clara Pueblo, NM

Isaac Julien
Born 1960 in London, UK
Lives in London, UK, and SantaCruz, CA

Diane Severin Nguyen(she/her)
Born 1990 in Carson, CA
Lives in New York, NYP. Staff(they/them)
Born 1987 in the UK
Lives in Los Angeles, CALotus L. Kang(she/her)Born 1985 in Toronto, Canada
Lives in New York, NY

Karyn Olivier(she/her)
Born 1968 in Port of Spain,
Trinidad and Tobago
Lives in Philadelphia, PAClarissa Tossin(she/her)
Born 1973 in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Lives in Los Angeles, CA

Mary Kelly(she/her)Born 1941 in Fort Dodge, IA
Lives in Los Angeles, CA

B. Ingrid Olson
Born 1987 in Denver, CO
Lives in Chicago, IL

Tourmaline(she/her)
Born 1983 in Boston, MA
Lives in New York, NY

Carolyn Lazard(they/them)
Born 1987 in San Bernardino, CA
Lives in Philadelphia, PAEamon Ore-Giron(he/him)
Born 1973 in Tucson, AZ
Lives in Los Angeles, CA

Charisse Pearlina Weston(she/her)
Born 1988 in Houston, TX
Lives in New York, NYDionne Lee
Born 1988 in New York, NY
Lives in Columbus, OH

People Who Stutter Create
Founded 2023
Jia Bin, Delicia Daniels,
JJJJJerome Ellis, Conor Foran,
Kristel Kubart

Kiyan Williams(they/them)
Born 1991 in Newark, NJ
Lives in Brooklyn, NY

Ligia Lewis(she/her)
Born 1983 in Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic
Lives in Berlin, Germany

Carmen WinantJulia Phillips(she/her)(she/her)
Born 1983 in San Francisco, CABorn 1985 in Hamburg, Germany Lives in Columbus, OH
Lives in Chicago, IL
Mary Lovelace O’Neal
Takako Yamaguchi(she/her)
Mavis Pusey(she/her)
Born 1942 in Jackson, MS(she/her)Born 1952 in Okayama, Japan
Lives in Oakland, CA, and Merida, Born 1928 in Retreat, Jamaica
Lives in Santa Monica, CA
MexicoDied 2019 in Falmouth, VA
Constantina Zavitsanos
Cannupa Hanska Luger
Maja Ruznic(any/all)(he/him)(she/her)
Born 1977 in Reading, PA
Born 1979 in Fort Yates, ND
Born 1983 in Brčko, Bosnia andLives in New York, NY(Standing Rock Reservation)
Herzegovina (Yugoslavia)
Lives in Glorieta, NM
Lives in Placitas, NMFilm Program Artists:
Siku AlloolooGbenga Komolafe and Tee Park Sydney Frances Pascal(she/her)Gbenga Komolafe(she/her)
Born 1986 in Yellowknife, Canada (they/them/he/him/she/her)Born 1993 in Nanaimo, Canada
Lives in Bowser, Canada
Born 2000 in Port-Harcourt,
Lives in Vancouver, Canada
Nigeria
Seba Calfuqueo
Tee Park
Raqs Media Collective(she/her/they/them)(she/her)Founded 1992 in Delhi
Born 1991 in Santiago, Chile
Born 1999 in Seoul, South Korea Jeebesh Bachi, Monica Narula,
Lives in Ngulumapu, Wallmapu
Live in Los Angeles, CA
Shuddhabrata Sengupta(Chile)
Jenni Laiti
Riar Rizaldi
Christopher Harris (he/him)(she/her)(he/him)
Born 1962 in St. Louis, MO
Born 1981 in Anár, Sápmi (Inari, Born 1990 in Bandung, Indonesia
Lives in Coralville, IAFinland)
Lives in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Lives in Jåhkämåhkke, Sápmi
Miranda Haymon(Jokkmokk, Sweden)
Penelope Spheeris
Born 1993 in Boston, MA(she/her)Lives in Brooklyn, NY
Shuang LiBorn 1945 in New Orleans, LA(she/her)Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Ho Tzu Nyen
Born 1990 in Wuyi Mountains,(he/him)
China
Lada Suomenrinne
Born 1976 in Singapore
Lives in Berlin, Germany, and(they/them)Lives in Singapore
Geneva, Switzerland
Born 1995 in Murmansk, Russia
Lives in Espoo, Finland, andYasmine Anlan Huang
Simon Liu
Njuorggán, Sápmi(she/her)(he/him)
Born 1996 in Guangzhou, China Born 1987 in Hong Kong
Alisi Telengut
Lives in London, UK, andLives in Brooklyn, NY(she/her)
New York, NY
Born 1989 in Inner Mongolia
Nyala Moon
(Telengut and Mongolian nations)
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich(she/her)Lives in Berlin, Germany and(she/her)Born 1992 in New York, NY
Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, CanadaBorn 1987 in New York, NY
Lives in the Brooklyn, NY
Lives in New York, NY
Chanelle Tyson
Niillasaš-Jovnna Máreha Juhani (they/them)Aron Kantor
Sunná Máret – Sunna
Born 1989 in Greensboro, NC(he/him/they/them)Nousuniemi
Lives in Los Angeles, CABorn 1978 in San Francisco, CA (they/them)Lives in Los Angeles, CABorn 1993 in Anár, Sápmi
Zulaa Urchuud
Lives in Anár, Sápmi(she/her)
Kite
Born 1991 in Ulaanbaatar,(she/her)
Edward Owens
Mongolia
Born 1990 in Sylmar, CA(he/him)
Lives in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Lives in Ancram, NY
Born 1949 in Chicago, IL
Died 2010 in Chicago, IL

Performance Program Artists:
Holland Andrews(they/them)
Born 1988 in Orange, CA
Lives in the United States

JJJJJerome Ellis(any/all)Born 1989 in Groton, CT
Lives in Norfolk, VA

Debit(she/her)Born 1986 in Monterrey, Mexico
Lives in New York, NY

Sarah Hennies(she/her)
Born 1979 in Louisville, KY
Lives in Red Hook, NY

Alex Tatarsky(they/them)
Born 1989 in New York, NY
Lives in New York, NY, andPhiladelphia, PA

Artist information and headshots are also available online. Full details are available here.
Tickets On Sale
Starting January 25, visitors can purchase timed tickets for Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better
Than The Real Thing, which opens March 20, 2024. More ticketing information is available on
the Museum’s website.
Press Preview
The Whitney Museum will host a press preview on Tuesday, March 12, 10 am–1 pm. RSVP tothe press preview by filling out this form. A photography and broadcast hour will start at 9 am
and requires advance registration. Please reach out to pressoffice@whitney.org for anyquestions about the photography and broadcast hour. Remarks by Scott Rothkopf, the Alice
Pratt Brown Director; Chrissie Iles, the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator; and Meg Onli,
Curator-at-Large at the Whitney Museum of American Art, will begin at 10:30 am.
Catalogue
Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing is accompanied by a 284-pageexhibition catalogue published by the Whitney and distributed by Yale University Press. Editedby Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli, the catalogue features insightful essays by Iles, Onli, EvaHayward, and Amber Jamilla Musser, along with a conversation among Iles, Onli, and Gregg
Bordowitz and a foreword by Scott Rothkopf. Anaïs Duplan, Almudena Escobar López, Mariana
Fernandez, Mara Hassan, Josie Roland Hodson, Nolan Jimbo, Tausif Noor, and Yasmina Pricecontributed entries on the work of each artist in the exhibition. An innovative format allows
readers to engage with the book’s text from one side or immerse themselves in a generously
illustrated section of full-page reproductions from the other side. The catalogue was designed byRiver Jukes-Hudson and Stephen Serrato of ELLA in Los Angeles. Copies will be available forpurchase in the Whitney Shop, online, and at bookstores ($50).
Free Public Programs
A series of free virtual and in-person programs are offered in conjunction with Whitney Biennial
2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing. More information about these programs and how toregister will be available on the Museum’s website as details are confirmed.

ABOUT THE WHITNEY BIENNIALA constellation of the most relevant art and ideas of our time, the Whitney Biennial showcases
contemporary artists working across media and disciplines, representing evolving notions ofAmerican art. Established by the Museum’s founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, in 1932, theWhitney Biennial is the longest-running survey of American art. More than 3,600 artists haveparticipated to date, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, FrankBowling, Mark Bradford, Alexander Calder, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Raven Chacon, Ellen
Gallagher, Jeffrey Gibson, Nan Goldin, Renee Green, Wade Guyton, Rachel Harrison, JennyHolzer, Edward Hopper, Joan Jonas, Ellsworth Kelly, Mike Kelley, Willem de Kooning, BarbaraKruger, Pope. L, Jacob Lawrence, Carolyn Lazard, Zoe Leonard, Roy Lichtenstein, Glenn Ligon,
Agnes Martin, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Julie Mehretu, Sarah Michelson, Joan Mitchell, Tiona
Nekkia McClodden, Georgia O'Keeffe, Claes Oldenburg, Laura Owens, Jackson Pollock,
Postcommodity, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson,Martine Syms, Wu Tsang, Cy Twombly, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, and David Wojnarowicz.
The 2024 Whitney Biennial is organized by Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli, with Min Sun Jeon andBeatriz Cifuentes. The performance program is organized by Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli, withguest curator Taja Cheek. The film program is organized by Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli, withguest curators Korakrit Arunanondchai, asinnajaq, Greg de Cuir Jr, and Zackary Drucker.

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