Whitney Museum Highlights the Talents of its Staff in Art Show at Westbeth Gallery

Whitney Staff Art Show. Photo courtesy the Whitney Museum

Beginning June 28, the Whitney Museum’s annual Staff Art Show is free and open to the public,
and all are welcome!

The Whitney Museum of American Art’s annual Staff Art Show returns this summer with STAFF ONLY, on view from June 29 through July 17. The exhibition will feature artworks from the Museum’s talented and creative staff on display at Westbeth Gallery, just a few blocks away from the Whitney.

From its origins in Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s Greenwich Village studio in 1914 to its relocation to the Meatpacking District in 2015, the Whitney Museum has always sought to support living artists at critical moments in their careers. Many of the Museum’s staff members, who make the Museum’s exhibitions, programs, publications, and day-to-day operations possible, are artists themselves and participate in the annual showcase.

For the seventh year in a row, the Whitney’s Staff Art Show will be held in a public space, offering staff an opportunity to share their work and deepen connections with one another as well as a wider audience. This year’s exhibition will include the work of over ninety artists, presenting a wide range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, printmaking, collage, and video, and reflecting the diversity of artistic practice among the Whitney’s talented staff.

STAFF ONLY is organized by colleagues from various departments throughout the Museum. The exhibition is free and open to the public, Wednesdays through Sundays from 1 to 6 p.m., and will be part of West Side Fest, a celebration of arts and culture on the West Side of Manhattan, July 12–14.

Participating Artists

alondra acevedo
Crystal Aguila Morales
Fidel Alleyne
Stephanie Alifano
Scarlet-Frances Alonzo
Alyssa Andrews
Max Bell
Anna Bida
Corey Braxton
Mitsuko Brooks
Natalee Cayton
Jaqueline Cedar
Viridiana Choy
Ramon Cintron
Aseeli Coleman
Spencer Compton
Heather Cox
Keira DiGaetano
Kasim Earl
Shanique Emelife
David Ertel
Sarah Fortini
Debora Francis
Melinda Freudenberger
Emma Gabel
Behrang Garakani
Karina B. García Labrana
John Gaudio
Jesse Gelaznik
Alana Giarrano Oula
Claire Golder Nora Gomez-Strauss
Abigail Hack
Felicia Huguley
Junichiro Ishida
Emily Jacoby
Armando Jaramillo Garcia
Jennifer Jhagroo
Caitlin Jones
Chris Ketchie
KIKIISUN
Tom Koehler
Tom Kotik
Denise Kupferschmidt
Caroline LaCava
Midrene Lamy
Meredith Lawhead
David Liburd
Rob Lomblad
Iris Ward Loughran
Eleanor Lovinsky
Jonita Luti
Doug Madill
Genevieve Martinez
Elissa Medina
Kristyna and Marek Milde
Victor Moscoso
Meer Musa
William Norton
Meg O’Brien
Justin Ortiz
Jason Phillips Anna Piwowar
Eliza Proctor
Greg Reynolds
Melissa Robles
Víctor Ignacio
Joshua Rosenblatt
Lynnette Therese Sauer
Lisa Saunders
Josephine Schoen
Laura Schwarz
Irene Shifman
Elisabeth Skjærvold
Jim SKULDT
Nathan J. Smith
Eve Soleil
Cree Solomon
Natalia Sterling
Josephine Tam
Adin Tannin
Sarika Tatineni
Doppalapudi
Joseph Teliha
Eva Tenby
David Tufino
Khaleiah Vasquez
YuYu Vega
Eric Vermilion
Cynthia Laureen Vogt
Josh Wertheimer
Christine Zheng

ABOUT THE WHITNEY

The Whitney Museum of American Art, founded in 1930 by the artist and philanthropist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), houses the foremost collection of American art from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Mrs. Whitney, an early and ardent supporter of modern American art, nurtured groundbreaking artists when audiences were still largely preoccupied with the Old Masters. From her vision arose the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has been championing the most innovative art of the United States for ninety years. The core of the Whitney’s mission is to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit American art of our time and serve a wide variety of audiences in celebration of the complexity and diversity of art and culture in the United States. Through this mission and a steadfast commitment to artists, the Whitney has long been a powerful force in support of modern and contemporary art and continues to help define what is innovative and influential in American art today.

Whitney Museum Land Acknowledgment
The Whitney is located in Lenapehoking, the ancestral homeland of the Lenape. The name Manhattan comes from their word Mannahatta, meaning “island of many hills.” The Museum’s current site is close to land that was a Lenape fishing and planting site called Sapponckanikan (“tobacco field”). The Whitney acknowledges the displacement of this region’s original inhabitants and the Lenape diaspora that exists today.

As a museum of American art in a city with vital and diverse communities of Indigenous people, the Whitney recognizes the historical exclusion of Indigenous artists from its collection and program. The Museum is committed to addressing these erasures and honoring the perspectives of Indigenous artists and communities as we work for a more equitable future. To read more about the Museum’s Land Acknowledgment, visit the Museum’s website.