The Biennale of Sydney, Australia’s top biennial, has revealed the full artist list for its 2026 edition, which is due to open on March 14, 2026.
The exhibition is closely watched by curators and has accordingly brought on as its organizer a curator who is herself widely acclaimed: Hoor Al Qasimi, the president and director of the Sharjah Art Foundation. It is her second biennial-style show in the past year, after the Aichi Triennale in Japan.
Al Qasimi’s Biennale of Sydney is called “Rememory,” a term from Toni Morrison’s legendary 1987 novel Beloved. Morrison used the word to refer to states in which traumatic past events are recalled piecemeal by groups of people fighting erasure.
“Working with artists to bring ‘Rememory’ to life, I am struck by the profound timeliness of this edition. The Biennale has always been a site for the most vital, urgent, and resonant art of its moment,” Al Qasimi said in a statement. “Yet this edition feels especially present, even insistent—an irony, perhaps, as ‘Rememory’ turns to the written, visual, and oral histories of culture, context, family, and country.”
While the Biennale of Sydney usually places an emphasis on Indigenous art, her show will increase its focus in that area, partnering with the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain to facilitate 15 commissions by First Nations artists. Those artists include Edgar Calel, Warraba Weatherall, and Gabriel Chaile.
Included alongside them in this biennial will be artists who regularly appear in recurring shows such as this one, including Emily Jacir, who won the Golden Lion at the 2007 Venice Biennale, and Tuan Andrew Nguyen, who recently won a MacArthur “genius” fellowship.
The full artist list follows below.
Abdul Abdullah (Australia / Thailand)
Ángel Poyón (Maya Kaqchikel, Guatemala)
Angélica Serech (Maya Kaqchikel, Guatemala)
Behrouz Boochani (Kurdistan / Iran / Aotearoa (New Zealand), Hoda Afshar (Iran / Australia) and Vernon Ah Kee (Kuku Yalandji, Waanji, Yidinji and Gugu Yimithirr, Australia)
Benjamin Work (Tonga / Aotearoa New Zealand)
Bouchra Khalili (Morocco / Austria)
CAMP (India)
Cannupa Hanska Luger (Standing Rock Indian Reservation, North Dakota / New Mexico, USA)
Carmen Glynn-Braun (Kaytetye, Arrernte, Anmatyerr, Australia)
Chang En Man (Paiwan, Taiwan)
Chen Chieh-jen (Taiwan R.O.C.)
Daisy Quezada Ureña (USA)
DAAR (DECOLONIZING ARCHITECTURE ART RESEARCH) (Palestine)
Deirdre O’Mahony (Ireland)
Dennis Golding (Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay, Australia)
Dread Scott (USA)
Edgar Calel (Kaqchikel, Guatemala)
Elverina Johnson (Yarrabah, Australia)
Ema Shin (Japan / Australia)
Emily Jacir (Palestine / Italy)
Fernando Poyón (Maya Kaqchikel, Guatemala)
Frank Young & The Kulata Tjuta Project (Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, Australia)
Gabriel Chaile (Argentina / Lisbon)
Gunybi Ganambarr (Yolŋu (Ŋaymil) people, Australia)
Helen Grace (Australia)
Hou I-Ting (Taiwan)
John Harvey (Kalaw Kawaw Ya/Saibai Island, Torres Strait, Australia) & Walter Waia (Kalaw Kawaw Ya/Saibai Island, Torres Strait, Australia)
John Prince Siddon (Walmajarri, Australia)
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige (Lebanon / France)
Joe Namy (USA / UK/ Lebanon)
Kapwani Kiwanga (Canada / France)
Kiri Dalena (Philippines)
Kuba Dorabialski (Poland / Australia)
Lamia Joreige (Lebanon)
Marian Abboud (Australia)
Maritea Dæhlin (Norway / Mexico)
Massinissa Selmani (Algeria / France)
Merilyn Fairskye (Australia) & Michiel Dolk (Netherlands / Australia)
Michael Rakowitz (USA)
Monica Rani Rudhar (Australia)
Nahom Teklehaimanot (Ethiopia / Kenya)
Nancy Yukuwal McDinny (Garrwa / Yanyuwa, Australia)
Natalie Davey (Australia)
Nikesha Breeze (United States)
Richard Bell (Kamilaroi/Kooma/Jiman/Gurang Gurang, Australia)
Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo, USA)
Sandra Monterroso (Maya Q’qchi’, Guatemala)
Tania Willard (Secwepemcúlecw, Canada)
Taysir Batniji (Gaza, Palestine / France)
Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn (Vietnam / USA)
Warraba Weatherall (Kamilaroi, Australia)
Wendy Hubert (Yindjibarndi Country, Australia)
Yaritji Young (Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, Australia)
