New York, NY — The New Museum recently announced the complete artist list for New Humans: Memories of the Future, the first exhibition to span the entirety of the expanded New Museum, opening on March 21, 2026. Across the New Museum’s SANAA-designed building and OMA-designed expansion, New Humans will trace a diagonal history of the past one hundred years through the work of more than two hundred international artists, writers, scientists, architects, and filmmakers, highlighting key moments when dramatic technological and societal changes spurred new conceptions of humanity and new visions for its possible futures. Continuing the New Museum’s long history of presenting provocative and timely group exhibitions, New Humans: Memories of the Future will explore artists’ enduring preoccupation with what it means to be humanin the face of sweeping technological changes.
The exhibition stretches across history and features artists from more than fifty countries, highlighting rarely seen works reaching back over a century while also premiering more than fifteen new commissions produced by some of today’s most exciting contemporary artists, including Ryan Gander, Camille Henrot, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Wangechi Mutu, Hito Steyerl, Alice Wang, and Santiago Yahuarcani, among many others. Canonical figures of twentieth-century art, like Constantin Brâncuși, André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, and August Sander, are brought into dialogue with overlooked and eccentric visionaries like Bruce Lacey, Rammellzee, Toyen, and Unica Zürn. The wide range of works on view captures individualized responses to moments of sweeping global change. Seen through the lens of today, these artists offer proposals that resonate with our contemporary moment, but also document dreams of futures that never arrived.
As with earlier thematic exhibitions at the New Museum, New Humans finds the roots of the contemporary in the layers of the past. In particular, the show highlights the recurrence of collective fears of and aspirations for new technologies as they arrive with the immense potential to shape, or even dominate, human life. Working against the idea of linear progress in both humanity and technology, the exhibition stages the relationship between the two as a series of leaps, returns, and reversals, placing artists and objects in critical dialogue across time. Most notably, New Humans establishes a symmetry between the 1920s and the present: The early decades of the twentieth century saw the first appearance of the term “robot” and the rise of automated factory labor, along with the emergence of mechanized warfare and the explosion of new media. All these phenomena are echoed by today’s disruptive diffusion of AI, the brutal efficiency of contemporary warfare, and the myriad apparatuses of misinformation that characterize communication in the digital age.
Highlighting these transhistorical correspondences, the show connects the medical devices invented for soldiers returning injured from World War I to contemporary imaginings of a transhumanist future, while the image of the “New Man”—and that of the “New Woman”—in the work of the early twentieth-century avant-garde presages the cyborgs and bioengineered bodies imagined by the artists and technologists of today. Broken and reassembled bodies in the work of artists like Hans Bellmer and Hannah Höch, for example, anticipate the transhuman bodies imagined by artists like Berenice Olmedo, Cao Fei, and Janiva Ellis. Similarly, the glut of AI-generated images and videos flooding our digital landscape and challenging our understanding of creativity finds its precedent in the machine-aided computer drawings and programmed art of the 1960s created by pioneering women like Analívia Cordeiro, Vera Molnár, and Lillian Schwartz.
New Humans considers how scientific advances have completely reconfigured representations of the human body, offering portraits of life from the embryonic stage to bodies that may inhabit post-human worlds yet to come. The exhibition features diagrams, models, and documentation of various scientific discoveries that revolutionized our understanding of humanity’s inner workings. Lennart Nilsson’s photographs of human embryos, Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s diagrams of the brain’s internal structures and pathways, Franz Tschakert’s Glass Man, and Wilder Graves Penfield’s model of the sensory homunculus, among many others, offer both anatomical insight and artistic inspiration, while artists like Yuri Ancarani, Lucy Beech, and Angela Su create works that mine the fields of surgical technology, bioengineering, and medical illustration with surreal effect. The characters that populate the exhibition range from sleek automatons to figures fractured by the machine of war to human-animal hybrids in states of transformation and evolution. Mechanical life forms by artists like Lee Bul, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Pamela Rosenkranz, and Andro Wekua appear alongside iconic artificial beings from popular culture, like Carlo Rambaldi’s E.T. and H.R. Giger’s biomechanical Necronom, made famous in the film Alien. Through this archive of evolving human forms, the exhibition highlights how machines have profoundly altered humanity’s understanding of labor, gender, collectivity, intelligence, and creativity.
The show identifies pivotal historical moments like the birth of the myth of the “New Man,” as envisioned by the early twentieth-century avant-garde in works by artists from El Lissitzky to Francis Picabia, and the appearance of the “New Woman” in the context of the Bauhaus, through works from Marianne Brandt, Karla Grosch, and Florence Henri. The Futurists, Dadaists, and Surrealists all imagined their own varieties of mechanical offspring—children born without mothers—that reflect both a wonder at the technological revolutions taking place in the early decades of the twentieth century and the looming specter of fascism that would overtake Europe before World War II. From the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s industrial readymade God, created in collaboration with Morton Livingston Schamberg, to Dalí’s Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man, the children of the machine inaugurated a terrifying new world where technological and political upheavals would prompt the birth of even more surprising new humans to come.
The post–World War II period saw the emergence of a more monstrous form of figuration in response to the horrors of the Holocaust and the devastation of the atomic bomb, uniting artists as varied as Francis Bacon, Jacqueline de Jong, Alberto Giacometti, Eva Hesse, Alina Szapocznikow, and Tatsuo Ikeda. At the same time, a wide range of international figures, like F.N. Souza, Demas Nwoko, and Uche Okeke, imagined a new postcolonial body that extended beyond that imagined by European modernism—new humans for new nations. These moments highlight the tension between a pristine, engineered human of the future and the kinds of bodies warped and broken by technologically amplified violence, as well as the myriad bodies that fall outside of a techno-utopian vision, where aberration and an embrace of nonhuman relationships offer a radically liberatory potential. Many of these themes return in the work of contemporary artists such as Julien Creuzet, Jaider Esbell, Jana Euler, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Tau Lewis, and Portia Zvavahera, who reimagine speculative universes in which the definitions of the human are constantly renegotiated with both the animal and the natural world.
The exhibition offers prototypes of beings that may be able to navigate an uncertain future and visualizes the spaces—both natural and architectural—in which new forms of life may be able to thrive. The dreams of imaginary cities conceived by Sophia Al-Maria, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Gyula Kosice, Constant Nieuwenhuys, Hariton Pushwagner, and Albert Robida serve as habitats for chimeric beings like Anicka Yi’s hovering aerobes, which will be flying in the fourth-floor galleries of the new OMA-designed building. The shifting definitions of the human reflect the collective advances and upheavals of society at any given moment in time, and the artworks brought together by this exhibition offer myriad possibilities for the humans we may become.
New Humans: Memories of the Future is curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director; Gary Carrion-Murayari, Kraus Family Senior Curator; Vivian Crockett, Allen and Lola Goldring Curator; and Madeline Weisburg, Senior Assistant Curator; with Calvin Wang, Curatorial Assistant. With thanks to Lexington Davis, former Curatorial Fellow; Laura Hakel, former ISLAA Curatorial Fellow; Clara von Turkovich, former ISLAA Curatorial Fellow; and Ian Wallace, former Curatorial Assistant.
ARTIST LIST
A.C.M. (b. Alfred Corinne Marié, 1951, Hargicourt, France; d. 2023, Hargicourt, France)
Rebecca Allen (b. 1953, Marshall, MI)
Sophia Al-Maria (b. 1983, Tacoma, WA)
Monira Al Qadiri (b. 1983, Dakar, Senegal)
Yuri Ancarani (b. 1972, Ravenna, Italy)
Karel Appel (b. 1921, Amsterdam, Netherlands; d. 2006, Zurich, Switzerland)
Ayé A. Aton (b. Robert Underwood, 1940, Versailles, KY; d. 2017, Lexington, KY)
Francis Bacon (b. 1909, Dublin, Ireland; d. 1992, Madrid, Spain)
Nanni Balestrini (b. 1935, Milan, Italy; d. 2019, Rome, Italy)
Ivana Bašić (b. 1986, Belgrade, Yugoslavia [present-day Serbia])
Thomas Bayrle (b. 1937, Berlin, Germany)
Lucy Beech (b. 1985, Hull, UK)
Hans Bellmer (b. 1902, Kattowitz, German Empire [present-day Katowice, Poland]; d. 1975, Paris, France)
Benedetta (b. Benedetta Cappa, 1897, Rome, Italy; d. 1977, Venice, Italy)
Meriem Bennani (b. 1988, Rabat, Morocco)
Emery Blagdon (b. 1907, Callaway, NE; d. 1986, Callaway, NE)
Erwin Blumenfeld (b. 1897, Berlin, Germany; d. 1969, Rome, Italy)
Alexander “Skunder” Boghossian (b. 1937, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; d. 2003, Washington, DC)
F.W. Bogler (b. 1902, Hofgeismar, Germany; d. 1945, Zell am See, Austria); Kurt Schmidt (b. 1901, Limbach/Sachsen, Germany; d. 1991, Gera, Germany); and Georg Teltscher (b. 1904, Purkersdorf, Austro-Hungarian Empire [present-day Austria]; d. 1983, London, UK)
Martha Boto (b. 1925, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d. 2004, Paris, France)
Constantin Brâncuși (b. 1876, Hobiţa, Romania; d. 1957, Paris, France)
Marianne Brandt (b. 1893, Chemnitz, Germany; d. 1983, Kirchberg, Germany)
K.P. Brehmer (b. 1938, Berlin, Germany; d. 1997, Hamburg, Germany)
André Breton (b. 1896, Tinchebray, France; d. 1966, Paris, France)
Teresa Burga (b. 1935, Iquitos, Peru; d. 2021, Lima, Peru)
Miriam Cahn (b. 1949, Basel, Switzerland)
Cao Fei (b. 1978, Guangzhou, China)
Enrique Castro-Cid (b. 1937, Santiago, Chile; d. 1992, Santiago, Chile)
Giannina Censi (b. 1913, Milan, Italy; d. 1995, Voghera, Italy)
Barbara Chase-Riboud (b. 1939, Philadelphia, PA)
Iakov Chernikhov (b. 1889, Pavlohrad, Russian Empire [present-day Ukraine]; d. 1951, Moscow, USSR)
Thomas Chimes (b. 1921, Philadelphia, PA; d. 2009, Philadelphia, PA)
Anna Coleman Ladd (b. 1878, Philadelphia, PA; d. 1939, Santa Barbara, CA)
Constant (b. Constant Nieuwenhuys, 1920, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; d. 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Analívia Cordeiro (b. 1954, São Paulo, Brazil)
Magda Cordell McHale (b. Magda Lustigova, 1921, Nové Zámky, Hungary [present-day Slovakia]; d. 2008, Sloan, NY)
Henrique Alvim Corrêa (b. 1876, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d. 1910, Brussels, Belgium)
Beatriz Cortez (b. 1970, San Salvador, El Salvador)
Julien Creuzet (b. 1986, Paris, France)
Vitória Cribb (b. 1996, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Cui Jie (b. 1983, Shanghai, China)
Salvador Dalí (b. 1904, Figueres, Spain; d. 1989, Figueres, Spain)
Lenora de Barros (b. 1953, São Paulo, Brazil)
Jacqueline de Jong (b. 1939, Hengelo, The Netherlands; d. 2024, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Jorge de la Vega (b. 1930, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d. 1971, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Jeremy Deller (b. 1966, London, UK)
Agnes Denes (b. 1931, Budapest, Hungary)
Simon Denny (b. 1982, Auckland, New Zealand)
Sara Deraedt (b. 1984, Asse, Belgium)
Valentine de Saint-Point (b. 1875, Lyon, France; d. 1953, Cairo, Egypt)
Stephanie Dinkins (b. 1964, Perth Amboy, NJ)
Patricia Domínguez (b. 1984, Santiago, Chile)
Jean Dubuffet (b. 1901, Le Havre, France; d. 1985, Paris, France)
Marcel Duchamp (b. 1887, Blainville-Crevon, France; d. 1968, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)
Melvin Edwards (b. 1937, Houston, TX)
Janiva Ellis (b. 1987, Oakland, CA)
El Lissitzky (b. Lazar Markovich Lissitzky, 1890, Pochinok, Russian Empire [present-day Russia]; d. 1941, Moscow, USSR)
Ibrahim El-Salahi (b. 1930, Omdurman, Sudan)
Jacob Epstein (b. 1880, New York, NY; d. 1959, London, UK)
Max Ernst (b. 1891, Brühl, Germany; d. 1976, Paris, France)
Jaider Esbell (Macuxi; b. 1979, Normandia, State of Roraima, Brazil; d. 2021, São Paulo, Brazil)
Jana Euler (b. 1982, Friedberg, Germany)
Alexandra Exter (b. 1882, Białystok, Russian Empire [present-day Poland]; d. 1949, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France)
Harun Farocki (b. 1944, Nový Jičín, Czechoslovakia [present-day Czechia]; d. 2014, Berlin, Germany)
Jean Fautrier (b. 1898, Paris, France; d. 1964, Châtenay-Malabry, France)
Hugh Ferriss (b. 1889, St. Louis, MO; d. 1962, New York, NY)
William Fetter (b. 1928, Independence, MO; d. 2002, Bellevue, WA)
Raquel Forner (b. 1902, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d. 1988, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Otto Freundlich (b. 1878, Słupsk, Province of Pomerania [present-day Poland]; d. 1943, Majdanek Concentration Camp, Lublin, Poland)
Cyprien Gaillard (b. 1980, Paris, France)
Ryan Gander (b. 1976, Chester, UK)
Anna Bella Geiger (b. 1933, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Alberto Giacometti (b. 1901, Borgonovo, Switzerland; d. 1966, Chur, Switzerland)
H.R. Giger (b. 1940, Chur, Switzerland; d. 2014, Zurich, Switzerland)
Frank Gilbreth (b. 1868, Fairfield, ME; d. 1924, Montclair, NJ)
Leon Golub (b. 1922, Chicago, IL; d. 2004, New York, NY)
Milford Graves (b. 1941, Queens, NY; d. 2021, Queens, NY)
Karla Grosch (b. 1904, Weimar, Germany; d. 1933, Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine)
Aneta Grzeszykowska (b. 1974, Warsaw, Poland)
Brion Gysin (b. 1916, Taplow, UK; d. 1986, Paris, France)
Samia Halaby (b. 1936, Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine)
Joan Hall (b. 1952, Brooklyn, NY)
Richard Hamilton (b. 1922, London, UK; d. 2011, Northend, UK)
Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota; b. 1979, Standing Rock Indian Reservation, ND)
Matthew Angelo Harrison (b. 1989, Detroit, MI)
John Heartfield (b. 1891, Berlin, Germany; d. 1968, East Berlin, Germany) and George Grosz (b. 1893, Berlin, Germany; d. 1959, Berlin, Germany)
Nigel Henderson (b. 1917, London, UK; d. 1985, Thorpe-le-Soken, UK)
Tamara Henderson (b. 1982, New Brunswick, Canada)
Florence Henri (b. 1893, New York, NY; d. 1982, Compiègne, France)
Camille Henrot (b. 1978, Paris, France)
Lynn Hershman Leeson (b. 1941, Cleveland, OH)
Eva Hesse (b. 1936, Hamburg, Germany; d. 1970, New York, NY)
Hannah Höch (b. 1889, Gotha, Germany; d. 1978, West Berlin, Germany)
Wayne Hodge (b. 1976, Roanoke, VA)
Heinrich Hoerle (b. 1895, Cologne, Germany; d. 1936, Cologne, Germany)
Judith Hopf (b. 1969, Karlsruhe, Germany)
Channa Horwitz (b. 1932, Los Angeles, CA; d. 2013, Santa Monica, CA)
Tishan Hsu (b. 1951, Boston, MA)
Valentine Hugo (b. 1887, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France; d. 1968, Paris, France)
Jacqueline Humphries (b. 1960, New Orleans, LA)
Pierre Huyghe (b. 1963, Paris, France)
Tatsuo Ikeda (b. 1928, Imari, Saga, Japan; d. 2020, Tokyo, Japan)
Imai Norio (b. 1946, Osaka, Japan)
Arata Isozaki (b. 1931, Oita, Japan; d. 2022, Okinawa, Japan)
Steffani Jemison (b. 1981, Berkeley, CA)
Alexandre Jihel (b./d. unknown)
Charlotte Johannesson (b. 1943, Malmö, Sweden)
Sargent Claude Johnson (b. 1888, Boston, MA; d. 1967, San Francisco, CA)
Asger Jorn (b. 1914, Jutland, Denmark; d. 1973, Aarhus, Denmark)
Jamian Juliano-Villani (b. 1987, Newark, NJ)
Akira Kanayama (b. 1924, Amagasaki, Japan; d. 2006, Yokkaichi, Japan)
Frederick Kiesler (b. 1890, Chernivtsi, Austro-Hungarian Empire [present-day Ukraine]; d. 1965, New York, NY)
Bodys Isek Kingelez (b. 1948, Kimbembele-Ihunga, Belgian Congo [present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo]; d. 2015, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Konrad Klapheck (b. 1935, Düsseldorf, Germany; d. 2023, Düsseldorf, Germany)
Alison Knowles (b. 1933, New York, NY; d. 2025, New York, NY)
Kenneth Knowlton (b. 1931, Springville, NY; d. 2022, Sarasota, FL) and Leon Harmon (b. 1922; d. 1983)
Kiki Kogelnik (b. 1935, Graz, Austria; d. 1997, Vienna, Austria)
Gyula Kosice (b. Ferdinand Fallik, 1924, Košice, Czechoslovakia [present-day Slovakia]; d. 2016, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Germaine Krull (b. 1897, Wilda-Poznań, East Prussia [present-day Poland]; d. 1985, Wetzlar, Germany)
Shigeko Kubota (b. 1937, Niigata, Japan; d. 2015, New York, NY)
Tetsumi Kudo (b. 1935, Hyōgo, Japan; d. 1990, Tokyo, Japan)
Christopher Kulendran Thomas (b. 1979, London, UK)
Rudolf Laban (b. 1879, Pozsony, Austro-Hungarian Empire [present-day Bratislava, Slovakia]; d. 1958, Weybridge, UK)
Bruce Lacey (b. 1927, London, UK; d. 2016, Norfolk, UK)
Greer Lankton (b. 1958, Flint, MI; d. 1996, Chicago, IL)
Benjamin Laposky (b. 1914, Cherokee, IA; d. 2000, Cherokee, IA)
Maria Lassnig (b. 1919, Kappel am Krappfeld, Austria; d. 2014, Vienna, Austria)
June Leaf (b. 1929, Chicago, IL; d. 2024, New York, NY)
Lee Bul (b. 1964, Yeongju-si, South Korea)
Fernand Léger (b. 1881, Argentan, France; d. 1955, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
Tau Lewis (b. 1993, Toronto, Canada)
Bertina Lopes (b. 1924, Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique [present-day Maputo, Mozambique]; d. 2012, Rome, Italy)
LuYang (b. 1984, Shanghai, China)
Goshka Macuga (b. 1967, Warsaw, Poland
Frank Malina (b. 1912, Brenham, TX; d. 1981, Paris, France)
Ernest Mancoba (b. 1904, Johannesburg, South Africa; d. 2002, Clamart, France)
Abu Bakarr Mansaray (b. 1970, Tongo, Sierra Leone)
Liliana Maresca (b. 1951, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d. 1994, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Daria Martin (b. 1973, San Francisco, CA)
James Tilly Matthews (b. 1770; d. 1815, London, UK)
John McHale (b. 1922, Glasgow, Scotland; d. 1978, Houston, TX)
Sidsel Meineche Hansen (b. 1981, Ry, Denmark)
Edward Meneeley (b. 1927, Wilkes-Barre, PA; d. 2012, Weatherly, PA)
Gustav Metzger (b. 1926, Nuremberg, Germany; d. 2017, London, UK)
Marvin Minsky (b. 1927, New York, NY; d. 2016, Boston, MA)
Jakob Mohr (b. 1884, Mannheim, Germany; d. 1940, Paris, France)
Manfred Mohr (b. 1938, Pforzheim, Germany)
Mole and Thomas: Arthur Mole (b. 1889, Lexden, UK; d. 1983, Fort Lauderdale, FL) and John Thomas (b. unknown, United States; d. 1947)
Vera Molnár (b. 1924, Budapest, Hungary; d. 2023, Paris, France)
Maina-Miriam Munsky (b. 1943, Wolfenbüttel, Germany; d. 1999, Berlin, Germany)
Zoran Mušič (b. 1909, Bukovica, Austro-Hungarian Empire [present-day Slovenia]; d. 2005, Venice, Italy)
Wangechi Mutu (b. 1972, Nairobi, Kenya)
Natsuyuki Nakanishi (b. 1935, Tokyo, Japan; d. 2016, Tokyo, Japan)
Malangatana Valente Ngwenya (b. 1936, Matanala, Portuguese Mozambique [present-day Mozambique]; d. 2011, Matosinhos, Portugal)
Lennart Nilsson (b. 1922, Strängnäs, Sweden; d. 2017, Stockholm, Sweden)
Richard Bruce Nugent (b. 1906, Washington, DC; d. 1987, Hoboken, NJ)
Demas Nwoko (b. 1935, Idumuje-Ugboko, Nigeria)
Toyin Ojih Odutola (b. 1985, Ile-Ife, Nigeria)
Uche Okeke (b. 1933, Nimo, Nigeria; d. 2016, Njikoka, Nigeria)
Precious Okoyomon (b. 1993, London, UK)
Henrik Olesen (b. 1967, Esbjerg, Denmark)
Berenice Olmedo (b. 1987, Oaxaca, Mexico)
John Outterbridge (b. 1933, Greenville, NC; d. 2020, Los Angeles, CA)
Cato Ouyang (b. 1993, Chicago, IL)
Ovartaci (b. 1894, Ebeltoft, Denmark; d. 1985, Risskov, Denmark)
Nam June Paik (b. 1932, Gyeongseong, Korea [present-day Seoul, South Korea]; d. 2006, Miami, FL)
Jean Painlevé (b. 1902, Paris, France; d. 1989, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)
Abraham Palatnik (b. 1928, Natal, Brazil; d. 2020, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Eduardo Paolozzi (b. 1924, Edinburgh, UK; d. 2005, London, UK)
Philippe Parreno (b. 1964, Oran, Algeria)
Wilder Graves Penfield (b. 1891, Spokane, WA; d. 1976, Montreal, Canada)
Valentine Penrose (b. 1898, Mont-de-Marsan, France; d. 1978, Chiddingly, UK)
Francis Picabia (b. 1879, Paris, France; d. 1953, Paris, France)
Seth Price (b. 1973, East Jerusalem, Palestine)
Hariton Pushwagner (b. Terje Brofos, 1940, Oslo, Norway; d. 2018, Oslo, Norway)
Carlo Rambaldi (b. 1925, Vigarano Mainarda, Italy; d. 2012, Lamezia Terme, Italy)
Rammellzee (b. 1960, Far Rockaway, NY; d. 2010, Far Rockaway, NY)
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (b. 1852, Petilla de Aragón, Spain; d. 1934, Madrid, Spain)
Man Ray (b. Emmanuel Radnitzky, 1890, Philadelphia, PA; d. 1976, Paris, France)
Regina (b. Regina Cassolo, 1894, Mede, Italy; d. 1974, Milan, Italy)
Paula Rego (b. 1935, Lisbon, Portugal; d. 2022, London, UK)
Lili Reynaud-Dewar (b. 1975, La Rochelle, France)
Germaine Richier (b. 1902, Grans, France; d. 1959, Montpellier, France)
Albert Robida (b. 1848, Compiègne, France; d. 1926, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)
Donald Rodney (b. 1961, West Bromwich, UK; d. 1998, London, UK)
Rosa Rosà (b. Edith von Haynau, 1884, Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire [present-day Austria]; d. 1978, Rome, Italy)
Pamela Rosenkranz (b. 1979, Altdorf, Switzerland)
Mika Rottenberg (b. 1976, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Hannah Ryggen (b. 1894, Malmö, Sweden; d. 1970, Trondheim, Norway)
August Sander (b. 1876, Herdorf, Germany; d. 1964, Cologne, Germany)
Xanti Schawinsky (b. 1904, Basel, Switzerland; d. 1979, Locarno, Switzerland)
Oskar Schlemmer (b. 1888, Stuttgart, Germany; d. 1943, Baden-Baden, Germany)
Nicolas Schöffer (b. 1912, Kalocsa, Austro-Hungarian Empire [present-day Hungary]; d. 1992, Paris, France)
Marilou Schultz (Diné; b. 1954, Safford, AZ)
Lavinia Schulz (b. 1896, Lübben [Spreewald], Germany; d. 1924, Hamburg, Germany) and Walter Holdt (b. 1899; d. 1924, Hamburg, Germany)
Lillian Schwartz (b. 1927, Cincinnati, OH; d. 2024, New York, NY)
Seher Shah (b. 1975, Karachi, Pakistan)
F.N. Souza (b. 1924, Saligao, Portuguese Goa [present-day India]; d. 2002, Mumbai, India)
Varvara Stepanova (b. 1894, Kovno, Russian Empire [present-day Kaunas, Lithuania]; d. 1958, Moscow, USSR)
Hito Steyerl (b. 1966, Munich, Germany)
Sturtevant (b. Elaine Horan, 1924, Lakewood, OH; d. 2014, Paris, France)
Angela Su (b. 1969, Hong Kong)
Jenna Sutela (b. 1983, Turku, Finland)
Alina Szapocznikow (b. 1926, Kalisz, Poland; d. 1973, Passy, France)
Pol Taburet (b. 1997, Paris, France)
Emma Talbot (b. 1969, Stourbridge, UK)
Atsuko Tanaka (b. 1932, Osaka, Japan; d. 2005, Nara, Japan)
Paul Thek (b. 1933, Brooklyn, NY; d. 1988, New York, NY)
Jean Tinguely (b. 1925, Fribourg, Switzerland; d. 1991, Bern, Switzerland)
Frieda Toranzo Jaeger (b. 1988, Mexico City, Mexico)
Toyen (b. Marie Čermínová, 1902, Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire [present-day Czechia]; d. 1980, Paris, France)
Franz Tschakert (b. 1887, Großräschen, Germany; d. 1958)
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (b. 1874, Swinemünde, German Empire [present-day Świnoujście, Poland]; d. 1927, Paris, France) and Morton Livingston Schamberg (b. 1881, Philadelphia, PA; d. 1918, Philadelphia, PA)
Kristin Walsh (b. 1989, Emerald Isle, NC)
Alice Wang (b. 1983, Xi’an, China)
WangShui (b. 1986, Dallas, TX)
Andro Wekua (b. 1977, Sokhumi, Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic [present-day Georgia])
H.C. Westermann (b. 1922, Los Angeles, CA; d. 1981, Danbury, CT)
Jack Whitten (b. 1939, Bessemer, AL; d. 2018, New York, NY)
Ulla Wiggen (b. 1942, Stockholm, Sweden)
Jordan Wolfson (b. 1980, New York, NY)
Albert Wyndham (b. ca. 1903, UK; d. ca. 1977)
Santiago Yahuarcani (Uitoto; b. 1960, Pebas, Peru)
Anicka Yi (b. 1971, Seoul, South Korea)
Leah Ke Yi Zheng (b. 1988, Wuyishan, China)
Unica Zürn (b. 1916, Berlin, Germany; d. 1970, Paris, France)
Portia Zvavahera (b. 1985, Harare, Zimbabwe)
PUBLICATION
New Humans: Memories of the Future is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog copublished by Phaidon and the New Museum, edited by Massimiliano Gioni, Gary Carrion-Murayari, and Madeline Weisburg, with Calvin Wang. The catalog features essays by Aaron Betsky, Gary Carrion-Murayari, Erin Christovale, Meghan Forbes, Hal Foster, Massimiliano Gioni, Sophie Lewis, Eric Michaud, Katy Siegel, McKenzie Wark, and Gary Zhexi Zhang, as well as monographic texts on all the featured artists.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
New Humans public programs will include conversations and workshops with exhibiting artists, including Cannupa Hanska Luger, Precious Okoyomon, Berenice Olmedo, WangShui, Hito Steyerl, and Anicka Yi, alongside other artists and thinkers, including Lou Cornum, Leslie Cuyjet, David Gissen, Trevor Paglen, and Ariel Yelen. The program series will culminate with a performance by Sun Ra Arkestra. Details about these programs and other special events celebrating the New Museum’s reopening will be announced in the coming weeks.