Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer will cocurate the 82nd edition of the Whitney Biennial, set to open in the spring of 2026.
A member of the Whitney since 2017, Guerrero is currently the DeMartini Family Curator and was the museum’s first curator to specialise in Latinx art. In 2022 she presented the museum’s first major survey on Puerto Rican art no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria, which explored the storm’s impact on the local art scene. From 2014 to 2017, Guerrero served as a Curatorial Fellow at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, before which she was Research Coordinator in the Latin American and Latino art department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Sawyer is the Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney museum. Joining the museum last year, he oversees the museum’s collection of photography from 1900 to the present and leads its photography acquisition team. His first show at the Whitney Mark Armijo McKnight: Decreation, the artist’s first museum solo focusing on an new body of work, will open later this month. Prior to the Whitney, Sawyer served as the Phillip and Edith Leonian Curator at the Brooklyn Museum and has also taught at Columbia University, Yale School of Art and the Image Text Ithaca MFA Program.
