Roy Lichtenstein, one of Pop art’s defining figures, will be the focus of a major exhibit on the Whitney Museum’s Fall 2027 calendar that also features Minnie Evans, Coumba Samba, Farah Al Qasimi, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, and Juan Sánchez.
The Museum will present “Roy Lichtenstein: Like New,” a major exhibition examining one of the defining artists of the Pop art movement.
Alongside Roy Lichtenstein will be a focused presentation of rarely seen works from 1997, the final year of the artist’s life.
The season also includes The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans, marking the artist’s return to the Whitney more than fifty years after the Museum organized her first solo exhibition;.
The 25th anniversary exhibition artport: “A History of Internet Art” will include new presentations by Samba and Al Qasimi, and the first New York solo museum exhibition of Kelliher-Combs.
Here are the shows in the lineup.
The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans, August 22, 2026
The exhibit is a reexamination of one of the most extraordinary self-taught artists of the twentieth century, just over fifty years after the Whitney presented Evans’s groundbreaking first solo museum exhibition in 1975.
This touring exhibition, organized by the High Museum of Art, brings together works made between 1935 and 1981 and highlights Evans’s radiant drawings, paintings, and collages inspired by dreams, spiritual revelation, mythology, popular culture, and the natural world.
Through luminous color, dense patterning, and recurring motifs of flowers, birds, angels, and human faces, Evans envisioned a world that blurs the boundaries between the earthly and the divine.
Living in Wilmington, North Carolina during the Jim Crow era, Evans created visual images of an imagined “lost world” of harmony and spiritual unity. At once deeply personal and expansive, Evans’s work offers a powerful meditation on faith, imagination, transcendence, and the possibility of harmony amid a vulnerable world.
The exhibit is organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and curated by Katherine Jentleson, the High Museum’s Senior Curator of American Art and Merrie and Dan Boone ,Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art. The presentation at the Whitney Museum of American Art is organized by Barbara Haskell, Curator, with Caroline Webb, Curatorial Assistant.
Roy Lichtenstein: 1997, Sept. 5, 2026
“Roy Lichtenstein: 1997” is a focused exhibition highlighting rarely seen works from the last year of the pioneering Pop artist’s life.
This exhibition runs in conjunction with the major exhibition “Roy Lichtenstein: Like New,” presented on the Museum’s 5th floor. Echoing and expanding on key throughlines from the larger exhibition, Roy Lichtenstein: 1997 includes prints, photographs, and sculptural maquettes along with drawing and collage studies for a number of unrealized projects.
The exhibition demonstrates the incredible vitality of Lichtenstein’s vision and his continuing pursuit of new ideas five decades into his career. While often associated with his works of the 1960s and 1970s, Roy Lichtenstein: 1997 offers fresh insight into the range of the artist’s late experimentation and his response to the advent of the digital age.
Roy Lichtenstein: 1997 is organized by David Crane, Curatorial Research Associate, and Nakai Falcón, Curatorial Assistant.
Coumba Samba: Stars and Stripes, Sept. 19, 2026
Coumba Samba: Stars and Stripes is the first solo museum presentation devoted to the. A Senegalese American artist based in New York, Samba is known for her site-specific installations that draw on histories of modernist abstraction and minimalism, taking seemingly neutral non-objective forms from the global built environment and exposing the social, political, and economic structures embedded within.
For this lobby gallery exhibition, Samba is developing an immersive installation titled Stars and Stripes that critically examines the development of nuclear power and the African resource extraction that has sustained it. Titled after a common figure of speech to refer to the American flag, the installation continues Samba’s practice of deconstructing the symbols and forms that uphold the U.S. military-industrial complex.
Coumba Samba: Stars and Stripes is organized by Rujeko Hockley, Guest Curator, with Antonia Pocock, Curatorial Assistant.
artport: A History of Internet Art, Nov. 21, 2026
“artport: A History of Internet Art” marks the 25th anniversary of artport, the Whitney’s online gallery space for commissions of net art, which originally launched in 2001.
Since its inception, artport has presented a snapshot of the varied practices artists use to engage with an ever-evolving online environment.
Taking place online and in the gallery, the exhibition tells a history of the evolution of net art over a quarter century and features more than 100 works commissioned specifically for artport.
The exhibition presented on the Museum’s 6th Floor is structured around the three main commissioning categories of the artport website: the Gate Pages, created from 2001 to 2006 as portals to artists’ websites; the main Commissions, which have been ongoing since 2001; and the Sunrise/Sunset series, which ran from 2009 to 2024, along with its successor, On the Hour. In the galleries, the open floor plan creates the impression of floating browser windows, bringing the history of online art into physical space.
Working across code, data visualization, nonlinear narrative, worldbuilding, gaming environments, and AI-driven net art, the artists in the exhibition explore how the internet has reshaped privacy, identity, self-perception, surveillance, and the boundaries between online and offline life. Together, the works offer a wide-ranging look at how artists have used the internet as both a site and a medium for artistic production.
The artport anniversary exhibition will include the world premiere of the artist duo “Operator’s Human Unreadable Act III” — a live performance merging code and dance movements in a generative choreography. Act III will be performed in the Whitney’s Susan and John Hess Family Theater on November 19, 21, and 22.
artport: A History of Internet Art is organized by Christiane Paul, Curator of Digital Art, with David Lisbon, Curatorial Assistant, and Colin Brooks, Head of Digital Development.
Farah Al Qasimi: TAILSPIN, January 30, 2027
“Farah Al Qasimi: TAILSPIN” takes its title from the featured video work, “TAILSPIN.” Filmed in between Michigan, West Texas, and the East Coast, the work traces the long-standing relationship between American industry, oil, car culture, and Arab immigration.
Told from the perspective of a jinn, or spirit, the work combines fictionalized storytelling, documentary-style footage, and real testimony to explore the complexities of identity-building in post-9/11 America. The film unfolds through auto shops, living rooms, restaurants, and the swamplands of the Rouge River, revealing layered histories of migration, industry, community, and belonging.
Farah Al Qasimi: TAILSPIN is organized by Drew Sawyer, Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography, and Kelly Long, Assistant Curator.
Sonya Kelliher-Combs: TITIQ/MARK, Feb.y 6, 2027
“Sonya Kelliher-Combs: TITIQ/MARK” highlights nearly two decades of the artist’s explorations of history, cultural continuity, self-determination, and land use through her inventive approaches to artmaking.
An Iñupiaq and Koyukon artist based in Anchorage, Alaska, Kelliher-Combs (b. 1969) makes paintings, sculptures, and installations that are deeply informed by generational knowledge.
The Iñupiaq word “TITIQ,” which translates to “MARK” in English, carries multiple meanings, including the visible and invisible marks of colonialism, as well as the physical mark-making essential to Kelliher-Combs’s practice.
The exhibition, which is the artist’s first solo museum show in New York City, foregrounds her use of repetition and seriality and includes examples from ongoing bodies of work, such as Curls, Remnants, Idiot Strings, and Secrets.
Kelliher-Combs uses a wide range of artistic mediums, including marine mammal gut, paint, hair, fabric, animal hide, thread, and her own innovations with acrylic polymer. The exhibition will highlight the breadth of these experimentations while grounding her practice in traditional methods of production, like gut processing and sewing.
As the first mid-career survey of an Indigenous artist at the Whitney, TITIQ/MARK expands the Museum’s commitment to presenting a fuller picture of contemporary American art and is an unprecedented opportunity to share the material culture of the Bering Strait region with our audiences, underscoring its ongoing importance in Indigenous communities today.
Sonya Kelliher-Combs: TITIQ/MARK is co-organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Anchorage Museum.
The exhibition is co-curated by Jennie Goldstein, Marion Boulton “Kippy” Stroud Curator of the Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Julie Decker, Director/CEO, Anchorage Museum, with Rose Pallone, Curatorial Assistant, Whitney Museum of American Art.
Juan Sánchez: States of Liberation, Oct 2027
“Juan Sánchez, States of Liberation” will be the first traveling retrospective devoted to Sánchez, one of the founding figures of Latinx art in the United States.
For more than four decades, Sánchez has created a powerful and deeply personal body of work rooted in the histories, politics, and spiritual traditions of the working-class and Puerto Rican communities that shaped his upbringing in New York City.
Across more than 60 works, including paintings, works on paper, photography, and video, the exhibition weaves together the narrative threads of autobiography, community, nation, and utopia.
Together, these works offer a comprehensive look at Sánchez’s expansive practice and his sustained engagement with identity, collective memory, colonialism, resistance, and the possibility of social transformation.
“Juan Sánchez: States of Liberation” is co-organized by The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, in collaboration with the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico.
Curated by Marcela Guerrero, DeMartini Family Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art; Tie Jojima, Curator of Global Contemporary Art, The Phillips Collection; and Alejandro Anreus, PhD, Guest Curator, with Carina Martinez, Rubio Butterfield Family Fellow, Whitney Museum of American Art.
