Rhea Nayyar (Hyperallergic) announced the artists included in the 81st edition of the 2024 Whitney Biennial, which will open on March 20, calling it a “historically controversial show.” We identified four gallery artists with Caribbean roots, which we have listed here with links to their art pages, followed by excerpts from the article. For full list of artists, go to Hyperallergic.
Isaac Julien (https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/isaac-julien-ra and https://www.isaacjulien.com/)
Born 1960 in London, UK
Lives in London, UK, and Santa Cruz, CA
Ligia Lewis (https://ligialewis.com/)
Born 1983 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Lives in Berlin, Germany
Karyn Olivier (https://karynolivier.com/)
Born 1968 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Lives in Philadelphia, PA
Mavis Pusey (https://pffcollection.com/artists/mavis-pusey/)
Born 1928 in Retreat, Jamaica
Died 2019 in Falmouth, VA
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York has released the list of artists in the 81st edition of the Whitney Biennial, opening to the public on March 20. Even Better Than the Real Thing, co-organized by Meg Onli and Chrissie Iles, will feature 69 artists and two collectives, listed at the end of this article.
The 2024 iteration, comprised of varying creators with diverse skillsets and perspectives as a nod to what participating artist Ligia Lewis called a “dissonant chorus,” presents a selection of work addressing themes such as defining reality in a realm overtaken by artificial intelligence, body and identity, history and contemporaneity, and land stewardship in the face of irreparable climate change.
[. . .] The 2024 Biennial includes work by five artists under the age of 30, and over half of the participants identify as women.
Historically, the Whitney Biennial has been an exhibition that draws controversy. In 2014, the Yams Collective dropped out of the Biennial over the inclusion of White artist Joe Scanlon’s “Donelle Woolford” (2005–) project, in which Scanlon impersonated a Black woman, and the boat rocked again during the 2017 Biennial over the display of painter Dana Schutz’s “Open Casket” (2016), her interpretation of the widely publicized photo of Emmett Till’s mutilated body that spawned outrage and protests. During the 2019 Biennial, various artists moved to withdraw their work in protest of the museum’s since-resigned vice chairman Warren Kanders, whose weapons manufacturing companies were tied to various instances of police violence around the world, as Hyperallergic first reported in 2018. [. . .]
See complete list of the 2024 Whitney Biennial’s participants, including artists in the upcoming edition’s exhibition, film, and performance programs at https://hyperallergic.com/867918/these-are-the-artists-in-the-2024-whitney-biennial/
[Image above: From Karyn Olivier’s “At the Intersection of Two Faults,” at https://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/artists/70-karyn-olivier/.]
Rhea Nayyar (Hyperallergic) announced the artists included in the 81st edition of the 2024 Whitney Biennial, which will open on March 20, calling it a “historically controversial show.” We identified four gallery artists with Caribbean roots, which we have listed here with links to their art pages, followed by excerpts from the article. For full
