Julio Torres and Martine Gutierrez

Julio Torres is an award-winning Brooklyn-based writer, director, and comedian from El Salvador. His work on Saturday Night Live earned four Emmy® nominations and received wide acclaim. His first solo hour, My Favorite Shapes by Julio Torres, received rave reviews and was released as an HBO comedy special in 2019. Torres co-created and starred in HBO’s Peabody Award–winning series Los Espookys alongside Fred Armisen and Ana Fabrega, and created, wrote, directed, and starred in HBO’s Fantasmas. Most recently, his one-man show Color Theories was filmed during its sold-out Off-Broadway run and will be released as an HBO comedy special this spring. Torres made his feature directorial debut with A24’s Problemista, which he wrote and starred in alongside Tilda Swinton. His first book, I Want to Be a Vase, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2023.

Martine Gutierrez is an artist and muse.

Whitney Biennial 2026 is the 82nd edition of the Museum’s landmark exhibition series and the longest-running survey of American art. Featuring 56 artists, duos, and collectives across most of the Museum’s galleries, the Biennial is accompanied by a robust schedule of performance and public programs at the Museum and online. Co-organized by Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer, the exhibition brings together artists working across media and disciplines, reflecting evolving notions of American art.

Whitney Biennial 2026 offers a vivid, atmospheric survey shaped by a moment of profound complexity. The work on view examines varied forms of relationality, from interspecies and familial kinships to geopolitical entanglements, technological affinities, shared mythologies, and the infrastructures that support and constrain contemporary life. Rather than offering a definitive answer to life today, the exhibition foregrounds mood and texture, inviting visitors into environments that evoke tension, tenderness, humor, and unease, while proposing imaginative, unruly, and unexpected forms of coexistence.

Whitney Biennial 2026 is organized by Marcela Guerrero, DeMartini Family Curator, and Drew Sawyer, Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography, with Beatriz Cifuentes, Biennial Curatorial Assistant, and Carina Martinez, Rubio Butterfield Family Fellow.

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Yuki Nakase Link is an accomplished lighting designer for the performing arts, with a career spanning opera, theater, dance, art, and fashion. Over the past two decades, she has focused on innovative lighting design in collaboration with notable directors such as Matthew Ozawa, Yuval Sharon, Zack Winokur, Raja Feather Kelly, R.B. Schlather, and Mary Birnbaum. She has and continues to design lighting for notable companies, including: Pittsburgh Opera, San Francisco Opera, Detroit Opera, Canadian Opera Company, New World Symphony, Opera Philadelphia, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Baruch Performing Arts Center / Prototype Festival, Atlantic Theater Company, Steppenwolf Theater, and Alley Theatre. For more information about Yuki’s designs, please visit: https://yukinlink.com/.

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Broadway: King Lear with Glenda Jackson. Off Broadway/Regional: Hamlet (National Theater London at BAM); The Seat of Our Pants, Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp, The Vagrant Trilogy, The Outer Space, The Great Immensity, The Apple Family Plays (NYSF/Public Theater);  Grief Camp (Atlantic Theater Company);  We Are Your Robots (TFANA);  Find Me Here, Deep Blue Sound (Clubbed Thumb);  Helen (En Garde Arts);  Half-God of Rainfall (ART, NYTW);  The Jungle (St.Ann’s Warehouse, STC); Becky Nurse of Salem (LCT); Hamlet & Oresteia (Park Avenue Armory); runboyrun, In Old Age (NYTW); The Courtroom (Waterwell). BA: Barnard College.