The Whitney Museum of American Art has updated its exhibition schedule through summer 2025, showcasing its dedication to exhibiting diverse and representative American art. The schedule includes a variety of media such as painting, sculpture, photography, dance, performance, and digital art.
Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night
February 8–July 2025
All Day All Night is Christine Sun Kim‘s first major museum survey, co-organized with the Minneapolis-based Walker Art Center. The exhibition spans works from 2011 to the present, highlighting Kim’s use of sound, language, and communication through drawings, murals, paintings, video installations, and sculptures. This survey emphasizes her experimental and iterative approach to art, engaging audiences with perceptive, poetic, humorous, and political works. The exhibition title, All Day All Night, inspired by works created at various points in her career, reflects the dynamic energy Christine Sun Kim brings to her art. She is relentlessly experimental and iterative, committed to sharing her lived experiences with a diverse audience.
Amy Sherald: American Sublime
April 9–August 2025
American Sublime will feature around fifty paintings by Amy Sherald, including iconic portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor. This exhibition, Sherald’s first solo at a New York museum, presents works from 2007 onwards, showcasing her intentional focus on Black Americans and positioning her within the American realism and figuration tradition. Sherald’s portraits offer an expansive vision of interiority and selfhood, reflecting American identity’s multiple facets. Sherald views her paintings of everyday individuals as a broader vision of inner life and personal identity. Her work serves as a deeply resonant tribute to the diverse aspects of American identity, embodying her belief that “imagination is image in action.”
Edges of Ailey
September 25, 2024-February 2025
This is the first major museum exhibition to explore the life, work, and legacy of Alvin Ailey. Known for founding his influential dance company in 1958, Ailey created a platform for modern dance through his innovative choreography, interdisciplinary approach, and support for other dancers and choreographers. The exhibition, held in the Museum’s expansive fifth-floor galleries, will include a multimedia display, daily performances, and a scholarly catalog, providing a comprehensive look at Ailey’s contributions as well as new art inspired by him. Some artists featured include Lynette Yiadom Boakye, Lorna Simpson, and Kevin Beasley.
Mark Armijo McKnight: Decreation
August 24, 2024–January 5, 2025
Mark Armijo Mcknight’s exhibition includes new and recent black-and-white photographs exploring the concept of “decreation” from Simone Weil. McKnight’s images of bodies and landscapes in intermediate states convey ecstasy and affliction. The exhibition also features a 16mm film and limestone sculptures, emphasizing tumult and quietude. This exhibition is displayed in the Lobby gallery, accessible for free to the public.
What It Becomes
August 24, 2024–January 12, 2025
What It Becomes showcases new and rarely seen works from the Whitney’s collection, exploring the expansive possibilities of drawing. The exhibition includes 11 artists and examines how drawing can reveal the unseen and transform the familiar. Techniques like inscription and erasure, along with the tactility of the medium, explore the malleable nature of identity. Featured artists include Rick Bartow, Darrel Ellis, David Hammons, Ana Mendieta, Catherine Opie, and Wendy Red Star.
Raque Ford: A little space for you right under my shoe
August 26, 2024–March 2025
A little space for you right under my shoe is a newly commissioned work by Raque Ford on a building facade near the Whitney. Ford’s work is usually multimedia, featuring text and imagery from popular culture, and addresses social codes and private subjectivity. This site-specific project, part of a public art series, is Ford’s first entirely digital creation.
Shifting Landscapes
November 1, 2024–January 2026
Shifting Landscapes examines how political, ecological, and social issues shape artists’ representations of landscapes. Featuring 120 works by over 80 artists, this exhibition challenges traditional landscape interpretations and explores themes like industrialization, geopolitical borders, and imagined spaces. Most works are on view at the Museum for the first time, reflecting the dynamic concept of landscapes.
Current exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art include Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, on view through August 11, 2024; Wanda Gág’s World, on view through December 2, 2024; Survival Piece #5: Portable Orchard, on view through January 5, 2025; and the digital art commission Nancy Baker Cahill: CENTO.
