"For the 2024 Biennial, artists Saj Issa, Basil Kincaid, and Ronald Young have proposed exhibitions that involve ceramics, paintings, video, textiles, and sculptural assemblage. The three award winners were unanimously chosen in summer 2023 by a distinguished panel of independent jurors: Rita Gonzalez, Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Jamillah James, Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; and Caroline Kent, a Chicago-based artist and Assistant Professor of Painting at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. The jurors made the selection after visiting the studios of ten semifinalist artists who were chosen from a pool of 96 applicants."

Pendulum was awarded Best Short Film in the 41st Edition of The International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) in March. It was exhibited during the New Orleans Film Festival in November 2023. The short film utilizes nonlinear storytelling and symbolic representations of freedom to demonstrate the collective, generational, and ongoing pursuit for liberation. It depicts the search for an equilibrium between the past and an uncertain future. A woman knowledge keeper carries the liberation of her soul—her most precious legacy—on her shoulders. According to the artist’s [Mathieu] description, “this legacy sets in motion a spiritual choreography in which a group of men master their own freedom as they confront the complexities of their humanity. In the midst of this perpetual exorcism, they assimilate their liberation under a shower of white comets. What will remain of our essence? A new day begins.” -SLAM

"This exhibition will create space for close looking and consideration of this monumental work and the experimental processes used to make it. It will further contextualize Mehretu’s active engagement with the description and meaning of place through a selection of other works depicting cities." -SLAM

Crystal Z Campbell’s Currents 124 is a multimedia exploration of lost histories and the politics of remembrance. Through repurposed archival materials, experimental film, and luminous paintings, Campbell interrogates the ways in which historical narratives are constructed and who gets to tell them. The exhibition considers how memory is shaped by gaps, absences, and distortions, inviting audiences to critically engage with the past and its impact on the present. Known for their innovative approach to storytelling, Campbell sheds light on erased or marginalized voices, sparking dialogue around history’s complexities and its ongoing effects.