PCAI is happy to announce that the PCAI collection artists Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme are among the participating artists of the 82nd edition of the Whitney Museum of American Art landmark exhibition series, the longest-running survey of American art.
Co-organized by two Whitney curators, Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer, the Biennial presents the work of contemporary artists working across media and disciplines, representing evolving notions of American art.
Twenty-one artists on the biennial list were born outside of the United States and Puerto Rico, including in Vietnam, Cyprus, Afghanistan, Palestine, Japan, Iran, and Iraq. Among the artists born abroad is Baghdad-born, Los Angeles-based painter Ali Eyal, whose figurative works explore the impact of the American occupation of Iraq during his youth.
Whitney Biennial 2026 offers a vivid atmospheric survey of contemporary American art shaped by a moment of profound transition. Rather than offering a definitive answer to life today, this Whitney Biennial foregrounds mood and texture, inviting visitors into environments that evoke tension, tenderness, humor, and unease. Together, the works capture the complexity of the present and propose imaginative, unruly, and unexpected forms of coexistence.
Whitney Biennial 2026, Mar 8–Aug 23, 2026
More information here.
Activity aligned with Goals 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17
