New Humans: Memories of the Future

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A.C.M., Rebecca Allen, Sophia Al-Maria, Monira Al Qadiri, Yuri Ancarani, Karel Appel, Ayé A. Aton, Francis Bacon, Nanni Balestrini, Ivana Bašić, Thomas Bayrle, Lucy Beech, Hans Bellmer, Benedetta, Meriem Bennani, Emery Blagdon, Erwin Blumenfeld, Alexander Skunder Boghossian, F.W. Bogler, Kurt Schmidt, Georg Teltscher, Martha Boto, Constantin Brâncuși, Marianne Brandt, K.P. Brehmer, André Breton, Teresa Burga, Miriam Cahn, Cao Fei, Enrique Castro-Cid, Giannina Censi, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Iakov Chernikhov, Thomas Chimes, Anna Coleman Ladd, Constant, Analívia Cordeiro, Magda Cordell McHale, Henrique Alvim Corrêa, Beatriz Cortez, Julien Creuzet, Vitória Cribb, Cui Jie, Salvador Dalí, Lenora de Barros, Jacqueline de Jong, Jorge de la Vega, Jeremy Deller, Agnes Denes, Simon Denny, Sara Deraedt, Valentine de Saint-Point, Stephanie Dinkins, Patricia Domínguez, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Melvin Edwards, Janiva Ellis, El Lissitzky, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Jacob Epstein, Max Ernst, Jaider Esbell, Jana Euler, Alexandra Exter, Harun Farocki, Jean Fautrier, Hugh Ferriss, William Fetter, Raquel Forner, Otto Freundlich, Cyprien Gaillard, Ryan Gander, Anna Bella Geiger, Alberto Giacometti, H.R. Giger, Frank Gilbreth, Leon Golub, Milford Graves, Karla Grosch, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Brion Gysin, Samia Halaby, Joan Hall, Richard Hamilton, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Matthew Angelo Harrison, John Heartfield, George Grosz, Nigel Henderson, Tamara Henderson, Florence Henri, Camille Henrot, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Eva Hesse, Hannah Höch, Wayne Hodge, Heinrich Hoerle, Judith Hopf, Channa Horwitz, Tishan Hsu, Valentine Hugo, Jacqueline Humphries, Pierre Huyghe, Tatsuo Ikeda, Imai Norio, Arata Isozaki, Steffani Jemison, Alexandre Jihel, Charlotte Johannesson, Sargent Claude Johnson, Asger Jorn, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Akira Kanayama, Frederick Kiesler, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Konrad Klapheck, Alison Knowles, Kenneth Knowlton, Leon Harmon, Kiki Kogelnik, Gyula Kosice, Germaine Krull, Shigeko Kubota, Tetsumi Kudo, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Rudolf Laban, Bruce Lacey, Greer Lankton, Benjamin Laposky, Maria Lassnig, June Leaf, Lee Bul, Fernand Léger, Tau Lewis, Bertina Lopes, LuYang, Goshka Macuga, Frank Malina, Ernest Mancoba, Abu Bakarr Mansaray, Liliana Maresca, Daria Martin, James Tilly Matthews, John McHale, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Edward Meneeley, Gustav Metzger, Marvin Minsky, Jakob Mohr, Manfred Mohr, Arthur Mole, John Thomas, Vera Molnár, Maina-Miriam Munsky, Zoran Mušič, Wangechi Mutu, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Malangatana Valente Ngwenya, Lennart Nilsson, Richard Bruce Nugent, Demas Nwoko, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Uche Okeke, Precious Okoyomon, Henrik Olesen, Berenice Olmedo, John Outterbridge, Cato Ouyang, Ovartaci, Nam June Paik, Jean Painlevé, Abraham Palatnik, Eduardo Paolozzi, Philippe Parreno, Wilder Graves Penfield, Valentine Penrose, Francis Picabia, Seth Price, Hariton Pushwagner, Carlo Rambaldi, Rammellzee, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Man Ray, Regina, Paula Rego, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Germaine Richier, Albert Robida, Donald Rodney, Rosa Rosà, Pamela Rosenkranz, Mika Rottenberg, Hannah Ryggen, August Sander, Xanti Schawinsky, Oskar Schlemmer, Nicolas Schöffer, Marilou Schultz, Lavinia Schulz, Walter Holdt, Lillian Schwartz, Seher Shah, F.N. Souza, Varvara Stepanova, Hito Steyerl, Sturtevant, Angela Su, Jenna Sutela, Alina Szapocznikow, Pol Taburet, Emma Talbot, Atsuko Tanaka, Paul Thek, Jean Tinguely, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Toyen, Franz Tschakert, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Morton Livingston Schamberg, Kristin Walsh, Alice Wang, WangShui, Andro Wekua, H.C. Westermann, Jack Whitten, Ulla Wiggen, Jordan Wolfson, Albert Wyndham, Santiago Yahuarcani, Anicka Yi, Leah Ke Yi Zheng, Unica Zürn, Portia Zvavahera

New Humans: Memories of the Future will inaugurate the New Museum’s expanded building with an exploration of artists’ enduring preoccupation with what it means to be human in the face of sweeping technological changes. New Humans will trace a diagonal history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through the work of more than 150 international artists, writers, scientists, architects, and filmmakers, highlighting key moments when dramatic technological and social changes spurred new conceptions of humanity and new visions for its possible futures.

New Humans illuminates artists’ evolving visions of the future. The exhibition surveys the myriad shapes that humanity might take, from robots and cyborgs to haunting, seemingly alien life forms, and moves beyond the field of art by bringing together utopian architects, sci-fi filmmakers, and eccentric writers who imagine physical, virtual, and even post-human worlds. In an age when technological advancements and their unintended consequences seem to be accelerating at uncontrollable rates, New Humans proposes art as a collective form of creative prognostication—a vital self-portrait of 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.