Whitney Biennial 2012 (Contemporary Art Daily)

Whitney Biennial 2012

May 27th, 2012

Artists: Kai Althoff, Thom Andersen, Charles Atlas, Lutz Bacher, Forrest Bess (by Robert Gober), Michael Clark, Cameron Crawford, Moyra Davey, Liz Deschenes, Nathaniel Dorsky, Nicole Eisenman, Kevin Jerome Everson, Vincent Fecteau, Andrea Fraser, LaToya Ruby Frazier, K8 Hardy, Richard Hawkins, Werner Herzog, Jerome Hiler, Matt Hoyt, Dawn Kasper, Mike Kelley, John Kelsey, John Knight, Jutta Koether, George Kuchar, Laida Lertxundi, Kate Levant, Sam Lewitt, Joanna Malinowska, Andrew Masullo, Nick Mauss, Richard Maxwell, Sarah Michelson, Alicia Hall Moran, Jason Moran, Laura Poitras, Matt Porterfield, Luther Price, Lucy Raven, The Red Krayola, Kelly Reichardt, Elaine Reichek, Michael Robinson, Georgia Sagri, Michael E. Smith, Tom Thayer, Wu Tsang, Oscar Tuazon, Gisèle Vienne, Dennis Cooper, Stephen O’Malley, Peter Rehberg, Frederick Wiseman, Vincent Gallo

Venue: Whitney Museum, New York

Date: March 1 – May 27, 2012

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Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.

Images:

: Werner Herzog. Image courtesy of the Whitney Museum

: Kai Althoff. Photo by Sheldan C. Collins

: Charles Atlas. Image courtesy of Charles Atlas and Vilma Gold, London

: Moyra Davery. Image courtesy of Moyra Davery

: Jerome Hiler. Image courtesy of Jerome Hiler

: Mike Kelley. Photo by Corine Vermuelen

: Laida Lertxundi. Image courtesy of Laida Lertxundi.

: Sam Lewitt. Image courtesy of Sam Lewitt and Miguel Abreu Galley, New York.

: Andrew Masullo. Image courtesy of David Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles

: Nick Mauss. Image courtesy of Nick Mauss

: Michael Robinson. Image courtesy of Michael Robinson

: Wu Tsang. Image courtesy of Wu Tsang

: Frederick Wiseman. Image courtesy of Zipporah Films

: LaToya Ruby Frazier. Image courtesy of LaToya Ruby Frazier. Photo by Abigail DeVille

: Forrest Bess. Photo by Wilfred J. Jones

: Richard Hawkins. Photo by Sheldon C. Collins

: Sarah Michelson. Photo by Paula Court

Images courtesy of Whitney Museum, New York

Press Release:

Sculpture, painting, installations, and photography—as well as dance, theater, music, and film—will fill the galleries of the Whitney Museum of American Art in the latest edition of the Whitney Biennial. With a roster of artists at all points in their careers the Biennial provides a look at the current state of contemporary art in America. This is the seventy-sixth in the ongoing series of Biennials and Annuals presented by the Whitney since 1932, two years after the Museum was founded.

The 2012 Biennial takes over most of the Whitney from March 1 through May 27, with portions of the exhibition and some programs continuing through June 10. The participating artists were selected by Elisabeth Sussman, Curator/Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney, and Jay Sanders, a freelance curator and writer who has spent the past ten years working both in the gallery world and on independent curatorial projects. Sussman and Sanders co-curated the Biennial’s film program with Thomas Beard and Ed Halter, the co-founders of Light Industry, a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn.

For the exhibition, the Whitney’s fourth-floor Emily Fisher Landau Galleries are being used as a dynamic, 6,000-square-foot performance space for music, dance, theater, and other events. This is the first Biennial in which nearly a full floor of the Museum has been given over to a changing season of performances, events, and residencies.

Link: Whitney Biennial 2012