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.

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Lia Ouyang Rusli (she/they) is Brooklyn-based composer and artist who performs under the name OHYUNG.

She has scored numerous films, including Eva Victor’s Sorry Baby (A24), Neo Sora’s Happyend (Criterion Channel), Julio Torres’s Problemista (A24), and Shatara Michele Ford’s upcoming Dreams in Nightmares. Her scores for television include Fantasmas (HBO), Photographer (Hulu) and Your Attention Please (Hulu). She wrote the music for Celia Rowlson-Hall’s SISSY, which premiered at Baryshnikov Arts in 2025, and Julio Torres’s comedy special Color Theories (HBO), which originally premiered off-Broadway at Performance Space New York. As a composer, her innovative, genre-defying scores have been recognized by the New York Times, the Hollywood Reporter, Vanity Fair, the A.V. Club, Time Out and Variety.

Drawing on ambient soundscapes, harsh noise and euphoric pop, OHYUNG brings together disparate sounds and influences in her music. Her ambient records include IOWA, celebrated by Pitchfork as a “chilling, starkly beautiful ambient album,” and imagine naked!, a “masterful selection of muscular, shuddering, trembling ambient excursions” (The Quietus) that was hailed by NPR as one of the 50 Best Albums of 2022 and by PopMatters as the #1 Ambient Record of 2022. Her 2025 record You Are Always On My Mind was described by Paste Magazine as an “unpredictable masterpiece” that moves between “bantam electronic gestures, blow-out raptures, raver torrents, and light shifts.”

She has performed for SXSW, Boiler Room, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and you can find her performing in many clubs and venues in New York such as Nowadays, Market Hotel, LSD, Roulette, Elsewhere, Chaos Computer, and Trans Pecos. As a DJ, she is the host of Stray Dogs, a monthly radio show blending Asian diasporic music, techno, and experimental sounds for The Lot Radio, and has played venues in New York City and internationally.

Griffin Stoddard is a designer, director, and creative director with a career spanning theater, film, fashion, music and performance art. His practice combines scenography, sculpture, spatial design, and image-making.

Erik Bergrin is an interdisciplinary artist and textile specialist working across sculpture, fiber, costume, film, and material-based research. This work has been featured in galleries and museums such as Marlborough Contemporary, (NYC) Sotheby’s Gallery and auction,(NYC) The State Historical Museum (Moscow), The Morris Museum (NJ), The Jacques Marchais Museum (NYC), The Bakrushian Museum (Moscow), The Society of Arts and Crafts (Boston), Shelter Gallery (NYC), Fierman Gallery (NYC), and more.
His art videos have been featured on the big screens in Times Sq, NYShorts Film Festival (NYC), Bergen Kunsthall (Norway), A Shaded View on Fashion Film Festival, Billboards in Rio as part of ArtRio, USITT Prague Biannual, Here Arts Center, and won the best in film award at FashionClash Festival in the Netherlands.
He has designed costumes for shows and movies such as, “A Wounded Fawn,” on Shudder, “Namaka,”, “A Life to Come,” and has designed costumes for John Cameron Mitchell’s,”Origin of Love tour, Queen Bitch JCM does Bowie, and Cassette Roullette, as well as “Goodbar,” at the Public Theater and more . He has also worked as a costume textile artist on film and tv productions such as Black Adam, American Horror Story, A Quiet Place 3, Goosebumps, The Equalizer, Finch, Boardwalk Empire, Your Friends and Neighbors, The 4 Seasons, and many more. Alongside his artistic practice, Erik runs Spirit Body, an independent clothing line. His creations have been in publications such as Dazed and Confused, Laboratory Arts Collective, NYTimes, ODDA, Iris Covet Book, L’Official, Schon, Dust, NY Mag, King Kong, and more. His artwork can be seen at www.ErikBergrin.com

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/.

Off-Boadway (select): The Antiquities, Amusements (Playwrights Horizons),The Counter (Roundabout), Caroline, Table 17 (MCC), Six Characters (LCT3), Grangeville, A Bright New Boise, A Case For The Existence Of God (Signature NYC), The Apiary, Camp Siegfried, Patience (2ST), I’m Almost There (BAM) /(Audible @ Minetta Lane/Francesca Moody Productions @ Edinburgh Fringe), This Beautiful Future (Cherry Lane), the UNCLE VANYA in a loft, Heaux Church, PS, Heaux Church (Ars Nova), Black Exhibition, Demons (Bushwick Starr), Color Theories (PS NY), and work at Petzel Gallery, Indiana Rep, The Goodman Theater, The Alliance Theater, Philadelphia Theater Company, Indiana Repertory Theater, Playmakers Rep, The Brooklyn Museum, The Studio Museum and more.

André Azevedo Sweet (video & projection designer) is a designer and technologist based in Brooklyn & the Catskills, who blends art with engineering to create immersive visual experiences. With a background in projection design, A/V engineering, and programming, Andre has created experiences for projects like Succession, Past Lives, MIX Festival, Problemista, Color Theories and numerous more. Building everything from large-scale media installations to detailed motion graphics and video systems for film, TV, theater, museums and galleries and live events.

Nina Carelli is a New York City based makeup and SFX artist, specializing in beauty and transformative custom prosthetics. With a focus in story telling, she creates characters between the entertainment, fashion, and art industries.

LINDSAY JONES (Production Stage Manager) is a New York–based stage manager. She previously stage-managed Julio Torres’ Color Theories (PSNY) Kate Berlant’s eponymous one-woman show, KATE, in New York and London (The Connelly Theater; Soho Theatre) and produced its Pasadena Playhouse run in Los Angeles. Other credits include Fiddler on the Roof (Stage 42), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Manhattan Concert Productions, Lincoln Center), and Is Anyone Alive Out There? (Audible Original, Minetta Lane). Lindsay also works as a commercial producer, with credits including spots for The Last of Us, LinkBuds S x Olivia Rodrigo, and the Sony podcast Creator to Creator.

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.

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.