EXHIBITIONS

The 2024 Long Island Biennial is the 8th edition of the juried show and the first to be a themed competition. In this year of global elections, as some 60 countries representing half of the world’s populations hold regional and national leadership votes—The Heckscher Museum of Art invites Long Island artists to submit work that engages with contemporary social, cultural, or political issues. Works may address this theme in any fashion: from a personal, local, national, or global perspective, generally or specifically, literally or interpretively, and in any aesthetic genre and most media.

This year’s jurors are Ian Alteveer, Beal Family Chair of the Department of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Patricia Cronin, sculptor, Artistic Director of the LGBTQ+ VR Museum and Distinguished Professor of Art, Brooklyn College; and Grace Hong, Assistant Director, Galerie Lelong & Co.

The Heckscher Museum of Art inaugurated the Long Island Biennial in 2010 as a juried exhibition to feature work by contemporary artists from Suffolk and Nassau Counties. It offers Long Island’s artists an opportunity to show their work to a broad public, deepening the connections between artists and the communities in which they live.