List of Whitney Biennial curators

This is a complete list of Whitney Biennial curators who have curated or are scheduled to curate the Whitney Biennial exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, United States. The Whitney Biennial began as an annual exhibition in 1932, the first biennial was in 1973.^[1]

History

The Whitney Museum had a long history beginning in 1932 of having a large group exhibition of invited American artists every year called the 'Whitney Annual'. In the late sixties, it was decided to alternate between painting and sculpture, although by the 1970s the decision was to combine both together in a biennial.^[2] The first biennial was curated by a curatorial committee under direction of director John I. H. Baur.^[3] The 1975 Whitney Biennial, the first to credit curators with the show curation, acknowledged the five person curatorial team of John Hanhardt, Barbara Haskell, James Monte, Elke Solomon, and Marcia Tucker. The catalog additionally acknowledges how the curators' work was co-supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.^[4]

Whitney Biennial Curators

Year	Curator/Organizers	Affiliated Curator/s & Advisor/s
2026	Marcela Guerrero Drew Sawyer
2024	Chrissie Iles Meg Onli
2022	David Breslin Adrienne Edwards	Gabriel Almeida Baroja - Curatorial Project Assistant Margaret Kross - former Senior Curatorial Assistant
2019	Jane Panetta Rujeko Hockley[5]	film program guest curated by Maori Karmael Holmes, Matt Wolf, and Sky Hopinka.[6]
2017	Christopher Y. Lew Mia Locks[7]	co-curated film program with Aily Nash
2014	Stuart Comer Anthony Elms Michelle Grabner[8]
2012	Elisabeth Sussman Jay Sanders	co-curated film program with Thomas Beard and Ed Halter, co-founders of Light Industry[9]
2010	Francesco Bonami Gary Carrion-Murayari[10]
2008	Henriette Huldisch Shamim M. Momin[11]	overseen by Donna De Salvo, advisors: Thelma Golden, Bill Horrigan, Linda Norden
2006	Philippe Vergne Chrissie Iles[12]
2004	Chrissie Iles Shamim M. Momin Debra Singer[13]
2002	Lawrence Rinder[14]	Chrissie Iles, curator of film and video Christiane Paul, curator of Internet-based art works Debra Singer, curator of performance and sound art[15]
2000	Maxwell L. Anderson Michael Auping Valerie Cassel Hugh M. Davies Jane Farver Andrea Miller-Keller Lawrence R. Rinder[16]
1997	Lisa Phillips Louise Neri[17]
1995	Klaus Kertess[18]
1993	Elisabeth Sussman[19]	Associate Curators - Lisa Phillips, John Hanhardt and Thelma Golden
1991	Richard Armstrong Richard D. Marshall Lisa Phillips John Hanhardt[20]
1989	Richard Armstrong Richard D. Marshall Lisa Phillips	with John Hanhardt choosing the artists in the film and video section.[21]
1987	Richard Armstrong Richard D. Marshall Lisa Phillips[22]
1985	John Hanhardt Barbara Haskell Richard D. Marshall Lisa Phillips Patterson Sims[23]	Richard Armstrong (museum director)
1983	John Hanhardt Barbara Haskell Richard D. Marshall Lisa Phillips Patterson Sims[24]
1981	John Hanhardt Barbara Haskell Richard D. Marshall Lisa Phillips Patterson Sims[25]
1979	John Hanhardt Barbara Haskell Richard D. Marshall Mark Segal Patterson Sims[26]
1977	Barbara Haskell Marcia Tucker[27]	Patterson Sims, Associate Curator
1975	John Hanhardt Barbara Haskell James Monte Elke Solomon Marcia Tucker[4]
1973	Curatorial Committee	under direction of director John I. H. Baur[3]

See also

• List of Whitney Biennial artists