The 2019 edition of the Whitney Biennial, on view May 17 through September 22, was curated by Whitney Museum Associate Curator Jane Panetta and Assistant Curator Rujeko Hockley. Each has experience curating painting into group exhibitions, which means we should see some work on canvas (or related material). Hockley came to the Whitney in 2017 from the Brooklyn Museum, and she has co-curated “Toyin Ojih Odutola: To Wander Determined” and “An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940–2017.”  Panetta, who has worked at at the Whitney since 2010, helped organize “America Is Hard to See,” “Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s,” and a solo for Njideka Akunyili Crosby. 

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