Portland Artists Selected for 2026 Whitney Biennial | Maine Arts Scene

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Two Portland-born artists were selected to participate in the upcoming Whitney Museum of American Art’s biennial exhibit in New York City, billed as the longest-running survey of American art.

Mariah Garnett is a filmmaker and installation artist who was born in Portland in 1980 and lives in Los Angeles. Garnett graduated from Brown University in Rhode Island with a bachelor’s degree, received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and is an assistant professor of media at the University of California/San Diego.

Garnett has had exhibitions recently at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and Sundance Film Festival. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker and Art Forum.

Dyer Rhoads is an artist, designer, writer and performer who was born in Portland in 1996 and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Rhoads is listed as collaborating in the biennial with artist Nile Harris, who also lives in Brooklyn. Rhoads graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Fine Arts in 2019.

Rhoads has worked in Maine with the Children’s Theatre of Maine in Portland, Celebration Barn Theater in South Paris and Figures of Speech Theatre, based in Freeport. In 2013, while a student at Waynflete School in Portland, Rhoads won the Maine Poetry Out Loud competition.

Fifty-six participants in the upcoming biennial, including duos and collectives, were revealed by the Whitney this week.

The exhibit, which got its start as an annual event in 1932, will open March 8, 2026. The work “reflects the current moment and examines various forms of relationality, including interspecies kinships, familial relations, geopolitical entanglements, technological affinities, shared mythologies, and infrastructural supports,” according to the Whitney website.

The website lists the participating artists, along with their birthplaces and residences but not the work they plan to show.

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Two Portland-born artists were selected to participate in the upcoming Whitney Museum of American Art’s biennial exhibit in New York City, billed as the longest-running survey of American art.

Mariah Garnett is a filmmaker and installation artist who was born in Portland in 1980 and lives in Los Angeles. Garnett graduated from Brown University in Rhode Island with a bachelor’s degree, received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and is an assistant professor of media at the University of California/San Diego.

Garnett has had exhibitions recently at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and Sundance Film Festival. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker and Art Forum.

Dyer Rhoads is an artist, designer, writer and performer who was born in Portland in 1996 and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Rhoads is listed as collaborating in the biennial with artist Nile Harris, who also lives in Brooklyn. Rhoads graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Fine Arts in 2019.

Rhoads has worked in Maine with the Children’s Theatre of Maine in Portland, Celebration Barn Theater in South Paris and Figures of Speech Theatre, based in Freeport. In 2013, while a student at Waynflete School in Portland, Rhoads won the Maine Poetry Out Loud competition.

Fifty-six participants in the upcoming biennial, including duos and collectives, were revealed by the Whitney this week.

The exhibit, which got its start as an annual event in 1932, will open March 8, 2026. The work “reflects the current moment and examines various forms of relationality, including interspecies kinships, familial relations, geopolitical entanglements, technological affinities, shared mythologies, and infrastructural supports,” according to the Whitney website.

The website lists the participating artists, along with their birthplaces and residences but not the work they plan to show.

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