Whitney Museum Announces 2014 Biennial List

by Brian Boucher

New York's Whitney Museum of American Art has announced the list of 103 artists to be included in its 2014 biennial (Mar. 7-May 25). The 2014 edition is curated by Stuart Comer, chief curator of media and performance at New York's Museum of Modern Art; Anthony Elms, associate curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia; and Michelle Grabner, an artist and curator who teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at Yale University. Each curator will organize one floor of the museum. Whitney Anthony Elms, Stuart Comer, and curators Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders are Michelle Grabner, the 2014 Whitney serving as advisors. In a press release, Comer Biennial curators. Photo Filip Wolak points out that the exhibition includes "many types of cultural producers: editorial collectives, artist- curators, activists, musicians, poets, dancers, filmmakers, painters, sculptors, and photographers." Elms says that the show should "challenge the relationship between the past, the present, and histories yet to be written." Grabner states that the show "features artists who have

come to the fore as figures of influence, both inside and outside the geographic and commercial

The 2014 biennial will be the last edition held in the Whitney's current Madison centers of the art world." Avenue location before the museum moves to its dramatically larger new facility in the Meatpacking District.

The list of selected artists follows:

Academy Records and Matt Hanner Terry Adkins Etel Adnan Alma Allen Ei Arakawa and Carissa Rodriguez Uri Aran Robert Ashley and Alex Waterman Michel Auder Lisa Anne Auerbach Julie Ault Darren Bader Kevin Beasley Gretchen Bender Stephen Berens Dawoud Bey Jennifer Bornstein Andrew Bujalski Elijah Burgher Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel, and Sensory Ethnography Lab Sarah Charlesworth Yve Laris Cohen Critical Practices Inc. Matthew Deleget David Diao Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst Paul Druecke Jimmie Durham Rochelle Feinstein Radamés "Juni" Figueroa Morgan Fisher Louise Fishman Victoria Fu Gaylen Gerber with David Hammons, Sherrie Levine, and Trevor Shimizu Jeff Gibson Tony Greene curated by Richard Hawkins and Catherine Opie Joseph Grigely Miguel Gutierrez Karl Haendel Philip Hanson

Jonn Herschend Sheila Hicks Channa Horwitz HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? Susan Howe Jacqueline Humphries Gary Indiana Doug Ischar Carol Jackson Travis Jeppesen Alex Jovanovich Angie Keefer Ben Kinmont Shio Kusaka Chris Larson Diego Leclery Zoe Leonard Tony Lewis Pam Lins Fred Lonidier Ken Lum Shana Lutker Dashiell Manley John Mason Keith Mayerson Suzanne McClelland Dave McKenzie Bjarne Melgaard Rebecca Morris Joshua Mosley My Barbarian (Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon, and Alexandro Segade) Dona Nelson Ken Okiishi Pauline Oliveros Joel Otterson Laura Owens Paul P. taisha paggett Charlemagne Palestine Public Collectors Sara Greenberger Rafferty Steve Reinke with Jessie Mott David Robbins Sterling Ruby Miljohn Ruperto

Jacolby Satterwhite Peter Schuyff Allan Sekula Semiotext(e) Amy Sillman Valerie Snobeck and Catherine Sullivan A.L. Steiner Emily Sundblad Ricky Swallow Tony Tasset Sergei Tcherepnin Triple Canopy Philip Vanderhyden Pedro Vélez Charline von Heyl David Foster Wallace Dan Walsh Donelle Woolford Molly Zuckerman-Hartung

Boucher, Brian. “Whitney Museum Announces 2014 Biennial List” Art in America, 15 November 2013. [online]