The Whitney Biennial 2026 Opens Next Month With 56 Artists and a Sharp Digital Edge
Curators Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer have assembled a roster where fifteen of the fifty-six participants work at the intersection of art and technology.
The Whitney Biennial, the museum's flagship survey of contemporary American art, will open on March 8 with a roster of 56 artists and collectives curated by Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer. The 2026 edition carries a notably strong emphasis on digital and technology-based practices, with fifteen participants working at the intersection of art and technology.
Among the names announced are the New York-based digital artists Samia Halaby and Joshua Citarella, alongside artists working with poetry, performance, and installation. The inclusion of Halaby, a Palestinian-American pioneer of computer-generated art who has been working with algorithms since the 1980s, signals the curators' interest in digital art histories that predate the current AI moment.
Fifteen of the fifty-six participants work with art and technology. That is not a section. That is the show.
The Biennial arrives at a moment when the American art world is navigating both political turbulence and a recalibrating market. The curators appear to have responded not by retreating into safe institutional choices but by leaning into practices that are actively reshaping how art is made, distributed, and experienced.
The exhibition will be on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York through September 2026.