The 2014 Whitney Biennial opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art on March 7. Curated by Stuart Comer, Anthony Elms, and Michelle Grabner, it adopted an unusual structure in which three outside curators each oversaw a floor, producing distinct views of contemporary art in the United States. The exhibition included 103 participants across painting, sculpture, photography, film, dance, performance, publishing, and collective practice. It was also the final Biennial staged in the Whitney's Marcel Breuer building at 945 Madison Avenue before the museum moved downtown in 2015. As the 77th Annual/Biennial in a series begun in 1932, it became both a survey of its moment and a farewell to a defining site in the museum's history.
It closed the Breuer-building era of the Whitney Biennial before the museum's downtown relocation.
