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2022 Whitney Biennial
The 2022 Whitney Biennial, titled ''Quiet as It's Kept'', is the Whitney Museum's art biennial, hosted between April and September 2022. Described by Artnews as the "most closely watched contemporary art exhibition in the United States", the biennial is curated by David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards and hosts 63 artists and collectives. Artists The curators selected 63 artists for the biennial: * Lisa Alvarado * Harold Ancart * Mónica Arreola *Emily Barker *Yto Barrada *Rebecca Belmore *Jonathan Berger *Nayland Blake *Cassandra Press *Theresa Hak Kyung Cha *Raven Chacon * Leidy Churchman * Tony Cokes * Jacky Connolly * Matt Connors *Alex Da Corte *Aria Dean *Danielle Dean *Buck Ellison *Alia Farid *Coco Fusco *Ellen Gallagher *A Gathering of the Tribes/ Steve Cannon *Cy Gavin * Adam Gordon *Renée Green * Pao Houa Her *EJ Hill *Alfredo Jaar * Rindon Johnson * Ivy Kwan Arce and Julie Tolentino *Ralph Lemon *Duane Linklater *James Little *Rick Lowe *Daniel Joseph Martinez * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Exhibition
An art exhibition is traditionally the space in which art objects (in the most general sense) meet an audience. The exhibit is universally understood to be for some temporary period unless, as is rarely true, it is stated to be a "permanent exhibition". In American English, they may be called "exhibit", "exposition" (the French word) or "show". In UK English, they are always called "exhibitions" or "shows", and an individual item in the show is an "exhibit". Such expositions may present pictures, drawings, video, sound, installation, performance, interactive art, new media art or sculptures by individual artists, groups of artists or collections of a specific form of art. The art works may be presented in museums, art halls, art clubs or private art galleries, or at some place the principal business of which is not the display or sale of art, such as a coffeehouse. An important distinction is noted between those exhibits where some or all of the works are for sale, normally in pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raven Chacon
Raven Chacon (born 1977) is a Diné-American composer, musician and artist. Born in Fort Defiance, Arizona within the Navajo Nation, Chacon became the first Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music, for his '' Voiceless Mass'' in 2022. He has also been a solo performer of noise music and worked with groups such as Postcommodity. Life and career Raven Chacon was born in 1977 in Fort Defiance, Arizona, US within the Navajo Nation. He attended the University of New Mexico, where he obtained his BA in Fine Arts in 2001, then received an MFA in music composition from the California Institute of the Arts. He was a student of James Tenney, Morton Subotnick, Michael Pisaro and Wadada Leo Smith. Chacon's visual and sonic artwork has been exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad. His room-sized sound and text installation, ''Still Life, #3'' (2015), was exhibited in the ''Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound'' exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Cannon (writer)
Steve Cannon (April 10, 1935 – July 7, 2019) was an American writer and the founder of the cultural organization A Gathering of the Tribes. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and moved to New York City in 1962. Early life Steve Cannon was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on April 10, 1935, and was named Calvin Stanley Cannon. Arriving in the middle of the Great Depression, the eighth child of Eugene Charles Cannon (September 1, 1900–June ? 1992) and Lillie Victoria St Cyr Cannon (August 4, 1905 – July 1, 1935), he did not suffer financial deprivation because Eugene was a letter carrier, which was an excellent job for a black man in those days. Eugene was later also ordained a Baptist minister. Lillie had worked at James Lewis Elementary School before marrying, and at that time married women could not teach school. Calvin/Steve's mother, Lillie, died on July 1, 1935, from complications related to giving birth to him.1 After her death, Eugene's mother Patsy Payne Canno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Gallagher
Ellen Gallagher (born December 16, 1965) is an American artist. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is held in the permanent collections of many major museums. Her media include painting, works on paper, film and video. Some of her pieces refer to issues of Race (human categorization), race, and may combine formality with Ethnic stereotype, racial stereotypes and depict "ordering principles" society imposes. Background and education Gallagher was born on December 16, 1965, in Providence, Rhode Island. Referred to as African American, she is of Multiracial, biracial ethnicity; her father's heritage was from Cape Verde, in West Africa, Western Africa (but he was born in the United States), and her mother's background was Caucasian Irish Catholics, Irish Catholic. Gallagher's mother was a working-class Irish-American and her father was a professional boxer. In Rhode Island, Gallagher attended Moses Brown School, Moses Brown, an elite, Quaker college ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coco Fusco
Coco Fusco (born Juliana Emilia Fusco Miyares; June 18, 1960) is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator whose work has been exhibited and published internationally. Fusco's work explores gender, identity, race, and power through performance, video, interactive installations, and critical writing. Early life and education Fusco was born in 1960 in New York City. Her mother was a Cuban exile who had fled the Cuban revolution that year. Fusco received a B.A in Semiotics from Brown University in 1982, an M.A. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University in 1985 and a Ph.D. in Art and Visual Culture from Middlesex University in 2005."Coco Fusco" Alexander Gray Associates. Retrieved 2014-11-23. Career After finishing graduate school in 1985, Fusco met a group of Cuban artists, inclu ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alia Farid
Alia Farid (born 1985) is a Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican visual artist. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from La Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, a Master of Science in Visual Studies from the Visual Arts Program at MIT, Cambridge, MA, and a Master of Arts in Museum Studies and Critical Theory from the Programa d’Estudis Independents at MACBA, Barcelona. Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include ''In Lieu of What Was'' at Portikus, Frankfurt and ''Alia Farid, a solo exhibition'' at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Recent and upcoming group shows include participation in the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, the 12th Gwangju Biennale, Sharjah Biennial 14, the 2nd Lahore Biennale, and ''Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991-2001'' at MoMA PS1. In Switzerland, she first exhibited her new three bodies of artwork from February 11- to May 2022. She installed dif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buck Ellison
Buck Ellison (born 1987) is an American visual artist, known for his photography. He lives and works in Los Angeles. Biography Buck Ellison was born in 1987 in San Francisco, California. He received a BA degree in German literature from Columbia University, in 2010; and an MFA degree from the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main in 2014. Through collages, films, photographs, he produces a deep network of inquiry into how whiteness and privilege are sustained and broadcast. Ellison has exhibited at the The Hammer Museum, and has been in group exhibitions including the 16th Lyon Biennial, 2022, the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2022, ''Made in L.A. 2020: a version'', The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The Huntington Libraries and Museum, Pasadena, 2020 (cat.), ''Antarctica'', Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2018 ''The Sun Placed In The Abyss'', Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, 2016 (cat.) among others. His work has been reviewed in ''Aperture'', ''Artforum'', ''ArtReview' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danielle Dean
Danielle Dean (born 1982) is a British-American visual artist. She works in drawing, installation, performance and video. She has exhibited in London and in the United States; her work was included in an exhibition at the Hammer Museum focusing on new or under-recognized artists working in Los Angeles. Early life and education Dean took a BA in fine arts from Central Saint Martins in London in 2006, and completed an MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in 2012. In 2012 she was an artist-in-residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, and in 2013 was part of the independent study program of the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City; between 2014 and 2016 she was an artist-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, Texas. Work Dean's work explores "the colonization of the mind and body through media and cultural production, engaging their relationship to capital accumulation." Dean participated in the 2022 Whitney Biennial titled "Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aria Dean
Aria Dean (born 1993) is an American artist, critic, and curator. Until 2021, Dean served as Curator and Editor of Rhizome (organization), Rhizome. Her writings have appeared in various art publications including ''Artforum'', ''e-flux publications, e-flux'', ''The New Inquiry'', ''Art in America'', and ''Topical Cream''. Dean has exhibited internationally at venues such as Foxy Production and American Medium in New York, Chateau Shatto in Los Angeles, and Arcadia Missa in London. Dean also co-directs As It Stands LA, an artists project space that opened in 2015. Dean lives and works in New York City and Los Angeles. She is represented by Greene Naftali Gallery, Greene Naftali. Early life and education Dean was born in 1993. Dean graduated from Oberlin College in 2015. Work After graduating from Oberlin College, Dean was appointed social media coordinator for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art. In September 2016, ''ARTnews'' announced tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Da Corte
Alex Da Corte (born 1980) is an American conceptual artist who works in painting, sculpture, installation, and video. Da Corte often uses surreal imagery and everyday objects in his practice and explores ideas of consumerism, pop culture, mythology, and literature. He has shown internationally at Bodega, Gió Marconi, Josh Lilley Gallery, Maccarone art gallery, Maccarone, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, and Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art. Da Corte has worked on a number of collaborative projects with other visual artists, writers, and musicians including Jayson Musson, Dev Hynes, Sam McKinniss, Sam Mckinniss, and St. Vincent (musician), Annie Clark. In February 2021, his works were selected for inclusion in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's roof garden collection. Early life and education Da Corte was born in Camden, New Jersey, in 1980. He spent his formative years growing up in Venezuela. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Connors (artist)
Matt Connors (born 1973, Chicago) is an artist working predominantly in abstract painting. He lives and works between New York and Los Angeles. His work is represented by Xavier Hufkens in BrusselsHerald St.in London, anOrtuzar Projectsin New York. Background Matt Connors studied Fine Art at Bennington College before completing his MFA at Yale University School of Art in New Haven, graduating in 2006. His work draws upon the history of painting and processes, particularly minimalism and abstraction, but is also influenced by design, poetry, writing and music. In 2012, Connors published the award-winning book A Bell is a Cup and in 2015 he was a resident at the hinati Foundation Marfa, Texas. Exhibitions Connors' work has been exhibited at MoMA PS1, New York, L'Almanach - Le Consortium - Dijon, Kunsmuseum Bonn, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Xavier Hufkens, The Modern Institute, Glasgow and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit. Collectio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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