Anna Tsouhlarakis and Native Visibility at the Whitney Biennial

Anna Tsouhlarakis’s SHE MUST BE A MATRIARCH (2023), a blanched horse sculpture topped with pointed arms and spears mounted on a bed of inflated condoms, is a uniquely humorous and loaded intervention among the six Indigenous artists in the 2026 Whitney Biennial. The sextet—Tsouhlarakis, Raven Halfmoon, Teresa Baker, Nani Chacon, Kimowan Metchewais, Kekahi Wahi—hail from diffuse tribal nations and Hawai‘i, and their display at the biennial coinciding with the 250th anniversary of the U.S. reflects...