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The Whitney Museum of American Art houses one of the world's foremost collections of modern and contemporary American art.
Location
New York, United States
Founded in
1930

Current events

Hiram Maristany, Hydrant, in the air, 1963. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Shifting landscapes
1 Nov 2024 — 1 Jan 2026
Fred Fehl, Dancers in choral dances, 1971. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Edges of Ailey
25 Sep 2024 — 9 Feb 2025
Ana Mendieta, Alma, silueta en fuego, 1975. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
What it becomes
24 Aug 2024 — 12 Jan 2025
Mark Armijo McKnight, Without a song (solo ii), 2024. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Decreation
24 Aug 2024 — 12 Jan 2025
Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, Survival piece #5, portable orchard, exhibition view. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Survival piece #5, portable orchard
29 Jun 2024 — 5 Jan 2025

Permanent events

Installation view of The Whitney’s Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 28, 2019- ). Left wall: Six photographs by Charles Sheeler, (No title), 1933. Center of room: Gaston Lachaise, Standing Woman, 1912-27. Right wall, left to right, top to bottom: Madeline Shiff, Wiltz at Work, 1932; Anne Goldthwaite, Rebecca, c. 1925; John Steuart Curry, Baptism in Kansas, 1928; John D. Graham, Head of a Woman, 1926; Thomas Hart Benton, The Lord is my Shepherd, 1926; George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo, 1924; Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Landscape, 1924; Katherine Schmidt, The Snake, 1932; Oscar Bluemner, Last Evening of the Year, c. 1929; Stuart Davis, Early American Landscape, 1925; Rockwell Kent, The Trapper, 1921; George C. Ault, Hudson Street, 1932; Charles Burchfield, Winter Twilight, 1930. Photograph by Ron Amstutz
The Whitney’s collection
Permanent event
Christine Sun Kim (b. 1980), Too Much Future, 2017. Charcoal on paper, 17 1/8 x 29 1/8 in. (43.5 x 74 cm). Collection of the artist. Image courtesy Sirio Magnabosco
Christine Sun Kim
Permanent event
An Incomplete History of Protest. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
An Incomplete History of Protest
Permanent event
Derek Fordjour. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Derek Fordjour
Permanent event
Where We Are. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Where We Are
Permanent event

Past events

Wanda Gág, Wanda Gág’s world’s, exhibition view. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Wanda Gág’s world
28 Mar — 2 Dec 2024
Rick Bartow, Autobiographical hawk, 1991. Cortesía de Whitney Museum
En lo que se convierte
24 Aug — 12 Jan 2024
Helen Mayer Harrison y Newton Harrison, Pieza de supervivencia #5, huerto portátil, vista de exhibición. Cortesía de Whitney Museum
Pieza de supervivencia #5, huerto portátil
29 Jun — 5 Jan 2024
Making Knowing. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Making Knowing
22 Nov 2019 — 22 Jan 2021
Rendering of the proposed project, Day's End. Courtesy Guy Nordenson and Associates
Day’s End
1 Sep — 1 Dec 2020
Julie Mehretu. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Julie Mehretu
26 Jun — 20 Sep 2020
Julie Mehretu. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Julie Mehretu
26 Jun 2019 — 20 Sep 2020
Order and Ornament. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Order and Ornament
27 Sep 2019 — 27 Apr 2020
Pope.L, Well (Whitney version), 2019 (installation view, Pope.L: Choir, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 10, 2019–February 2020). Wood, glass, water. Collection of the artist; courtesy Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. Photograph by Ron Amstutz. © Pope.L
Pope.L
10 Oct 2019 — 8 Mar 2020
Installation view of Rachel Harrison Life Hack (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 25, 2019–January 12, 2020). Should home windows or shutters be required to withstand a direct hit from an eight-foot-long two-by-four shot from a cannon at 34 miles an hour, without creating a hole big enough to let through a three-inch sphere?, 1996/2019. Photograph by Ron Amstutz
Rachel Harrison
25 Oct 2019 — 12 Jan 2020
Alan Michelson. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Alan Michelson
25 Oct 2019 — 12 Jan 2020
Jason Moran. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Jason Moran
20 Sep 2019 — 5 Jan 2020
Whitney Biennial 2019. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Whitney Biennial 2019
17 May — 22 Sep 2019
Spilling Over. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Spilling Over
29 Mar — 1 Aug 2019
Where We Are. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Where We Are
28 Apr — 2 Jun 2019
Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies
28 Sep 2018 — 14 Apr 2019
Andy Warhol. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Andy Warhol
12 Nov 2018 — 31 Mar 2019
Kevin Beasley. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Kevin Beasley
15 Dec 2018 — 10 Mar 2019
Eckhaus Latta: Possessed. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Eckhaus Latta: Possessed
3 Aug — 8 Oct 2018
David Wojnarowicz. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
David Wojnarowicz
13 Jul — 30 Sep 2018
Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay
13 Jul — 30 Sep 2018
David Wojnarowicz. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
David Wojnarowicz
13 Jul — 30 Sep 2018
An Incomplete History of Protest. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
An Incomplete History of Protest
18 — 27 Aug 2018
Installation view of Between the Waters (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 9, 2018-). From left to right: Erin Jane Nelson, Dolphin Island, 2017; Erin Jane Nelson, Whispering River, 2017; Cy Gavin, The Future of Tucker’s Point, 2016; Erin Jane Nelson, Live.leaky, 2016; Erin Jane Nelson, Manchac, 2018; Erin Jane Nelson, Jekyll, 2018; Erin Jane Nelson, Ocracoke, 2017; Ebos Landing, 2018; Erin Jane Nelson, Kill Devil Hills, 2018; Erin Jane Nelson, First Landing Mushrooms, 2018. Photograph by Ron Amstutz
Between the Waters
9 Mar — 22 Jul 2018
Juan Antonio Olivares, still from Moléculas, 2017. High-definition video, color, sound, 10 min. Whitney Museum of American Art; purchase with funds from the Film, Video, and New Media Committee. Image courtesy the artist
Juan Antonio Olivares
2 Mar — 10 Jun 2018
Grant Wood. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Grant Wood
2 Mar — 10 Jun 2018
Zoe Leonard. Courtesy of Whitney Museum of American Art
Zoe Leonard
2 Mar — 10 Jun 2018
Experiments in Electrostatics. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Experiments in Electrostatics
17 Nov 2017 — 1 Mar 2018
Toyin Ojih Odutola. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Toyin Ojih Odutola
20 Oct 2017 — 25 Feb 2018
Laura Owens. Courtesy of Whitney Museum of American Art
Laura Owens
10 Nov 2017 — 4 Feb 2018
Jimmie Durham. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Jimmie Durham
3 Nov 2017 — 28 Jan 2018
Do Ho Suh. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Do Ho Suh
26 Jun 2017 — 1 Jan 2018
Calder: Hypermobility. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Calder: Hypermobility
9 Jun — 23 Oct 2017
Hélio Oiticica. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Hélio Oiticica
14 Jul — 1 Oct 2017
Where We Are. Courtesy of Whitney Museum
Where We Are
28 Apr — 25 Aug 2017
Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection, Exhibition view. Courtesy of Whitney Museum of American Art
Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection
27 Apr 2016 — 12 Feb 2017 at Whitney Museum in New York, United States
Alex Da CorteJayson Musson, Easternsports, 2014. Courtesy of Whitney Museum of American Art
Dreamlands. Immersive Cinema and Art
28 Oct 2016 — 5 Feb 2017
Eva Hesse (1936 1970). No title, (1969 1970). Latex, rope, string, and wire, Dimensions variable, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Eli and Edythe L. Broad, the Mrs. Percy Uris Purchase Fund, and the Painting and Sculpture Committee 88.17a b © Estate of Eva Hesse; courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
A Retrospective
30 Sep 2015 — 7 Feb 2016
Archibald J. Motley Jr., Self-Portrait (Myself at Work), detail, 1933. Oil on canvas, 57.125 x 45.25 inches (145.1 x 114.9 cm). Collection of Mara Motley, MD, and Valerie Gerrard Browne. Image courtesy of the Chicago History Museum, Chicago, Illinois. © Valerie Gerrard Browne.
JAZZ AGE MODERNIST
2 Oct 2015 — 17 Jan 2016
Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887 1986 Music, Pink and Blue No. 2, 1918 Oil on canvas, 35 x 29 15/16in. (88.9 x 76 cm) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Emily Fisher Landau in honor of Tom Armstrong 91.90 ©2014 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society ( ARS), New York
America is hard to see
1 May — 27 Sep 2015
View from the West Side highway, August 2014. Photograph by Timothy Schenck.
America Is Hard to See
1 May — 27 Sep 2015
Jeff Koons, Poodle, 1991. Polychromed wood; 23 × 39 1⁄2 x 20 1⁄2 in. (58.4 × 100.3 × 52.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; promised gift of Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner P. 2011.212. © Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons. A Retrospective
27 Jun — 19 Oct 2014

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