ARTISTS ANNOUNCED FOR 2008 WHITNEY BIENNIAL
As the countdown to the 2008 Whitney Biennial begins, details are emerging about that giant survey of American art that takes over most of the museum’s Marcel Breuer building, reports Carol Vogel for the New York Times. The next one, opening on March 6, will briefly spill into the Seventh Regiment Armory, with performances, installations, and other events put on by the Whitney in collaboration with Art Production Fund. The Biennial is curated by Henriette Huldisch, assistant curator at the Whitney, and Shamim M. Momin, associate curator at the Whitney and branch director of the Whitney Museum at Altria, and overseen by Donna De Salvo, the museum’s chief curator. Three advisors worked with the team as well: Studio Museum director Thelma Golden, Wexner Center director of media arts Billl Horrigan, and independent curator Linda Norden. The eighty-one artists selected to participate are as follows:
Rita Ackermann, Natalia Almada, Edgar Arceneaux, Fia Backström, John Baldessari, Robert Bechtle, Walead Beshty, Carol Bove, Joe Bradley, Matthew Brannon, Bozidar Brazda, Olaf Breuning, Jedediah Caesar, William Cordova, Dexter Sinister, Harry (Harriet) Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Shannon Ebner, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Roe Ethridge, Kevin Jerome Everson, Omer Fast, Robert Fenz, Coco Fusco, Gang Gang Dance, Amy Granat and Drew Heitzler, Rashawn Griffin, Adler Guerrier, MK Guth, Fritz Haeg, Rachel Harrison, Ellen Harvey, Mary Heilmann, Leslie Hewitt, Patrick Hill, William E. Jones, Karen Kilimnik, Alice Könitz, Louise Lawler, Spike Lee, Sherrie Levine, Charles Long, Lucky Dragons, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Corey McCorkle, Rodney McMillian, Julia Meltzer and David Thorne, Jennifer Montgomery, Olivier Mosset, Matt Mullican, Neighborhood Public Radio (NPR), Ruben Ochoa, DJ Olive, Mitzi Pederson, Kembra Pfahler/The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, Seth Price, Stephen Prina, Adam Putnam, Michael Queenland, Jason Rhoades, Ry Rocklen, Bert Rodriguez, Marina Rosenfeld, Amanda Ross-Ho, Mika Rottenberg, Heather Rowe, Eduardo Sarabia. Melanie Schiff, Amie Siegel, Lisa Sigal, Gretchen Skogerson, Michael Smith, Agathe Snow, Frances Stark, Mika Tajima/New Humans, Javier Téllez, Cheyney Thompson, Mungo Thomson, Leslie Thornton, Phoebe Washburn, James Welling, and Mario Ybarra Jr.
