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\n\tThe Medina Triennial, a new recurring art exhibition set to launch in the titular Western New York village this summer, has revealed the artist list for its inaugural edition, due to open on June 6 in close proximity to the Erie Canal. The 39 participants include a range of artists well-known on the biennial circuit. <\/p>\n
\n\tLina Lapelyt\u0117, one of the artist\u2019s behind the Golden Lion\u2013winning Lithuanian Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale, is taking part, staging Faithfully Recording<\/em>, through which local singers and construction workers will build a sculpture together. <\/p>\n \n\tTaysir Batniji, a Palestinian photographer, will count the Medina Triennial as his third biennial this year, after appearances in ones held in Saudi Arabia and Sydney, and Tania Candiani, a Mexican artist, will stage a new commission called Two Waters<\/em>, one of many works here dealing with bodies of water.<\/p>\n \n\tArtist with local ties are also taking part. Asad Raza, a Berlin-based artist born in nearby Buffalo, will stage a new work in which he will redirect water from the Erie Canal to one of the show\u2019s venues, and Jay Carrier (Onondaga\/Tuscarora Nations, Wolf Clan), a Niagara Falls\u2013based painter who died in 2025, will also appear here.<\/p>\n \n\tKari Conte and Karin Laansoo are serving as co-artistic director of the Medina Triennial, which this year takes the theme \u201cAll That Sustains Us.\u201d They attributed its focus on ecology and sustainability to Mierle Laderman Ukeles, one of the exhibition\u2019s participants.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWhat excites us most about this inaugural edition is that more than a year of conversations with artists and Medina residents will finally take public form. The exhibition has grown out of those exchanges and out of the village itself,\u201d Conte and Laansoo said in an email to ARTnews<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tMoreover, they said, \u201cWe hope visitors will feel what the artists have felt: that Medina is not simply the setting for the Triennial, but its central animating force.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe full artist list follows below.<\/p>\n Ash Arder <\/strong>(she\/they) b. 1988, Flint, MI; lives in Detroit, MI<\/p>\n Selva Aparicio <\/strong>(she\/her) b. 1987, Barcelona, Spain; lives in Alfred, NY, and Chicago, IL<\/p>\n James Beckett <\/strong>(he\/him) b. 1977, Harare, Zimbabwe; lives in New York, NY and Amsterdam, Netherlands<\/p>\n Taysir Batniji <\/strong>(he\/him) b. 1966, Gaza, Palestine; lives in Paris, France<\/p>\n Alice Bucknell <\/strong>(they\/them) b. 1993, London, UK; lives in Los Angeles, CA<\/p>\n Tania Candiani <\/strong>(she\/her) b.1974, Mexico City, Mexico; lives in Mexico City, Mexico<\/p>\n Jay Carrier <\/strong>(he\/him) Onondaga\/Tuscarora Nations, Wolf Clan; b. 1963, Six Nations reservation in Ontario, Canada; d. 2025, Niagara Falls, NY<\/p>\n FIBRA<\/strong> est. 2019, Lima, Peru; Lucia Monge, b. 1983; Gianine Tabja, b.1983; Gabriela Flores del Pozo, b. 1979<\/p>\n Harun Farocki <\/strong>(he\/him) b. 1944, Nov\u00fd Ji\u010d\u00edn, Czechoslovakia (present-day Czechia); d. 2014, Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n Futurefarmers<\/strong> est. 1994, San Francisco, CA; including Amy Franceschini, b. 1970, Patterson, CA; Michael Swaine, b. 1971, Buffalo, NY; and FS B\u00e0ss\u00efb\u00e9t, b. 1997, Elmina, Ghana<\/p>\n Jeneen Frei Njootli <\/strong>(they\/them) b. 1988, Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada; lives in Old Crow, Yukon, Canada<\/p>\n Greg Halpern <\/strong>(he\/him) b. 1977, Buffalo, NY; lives in Rochester, NY<\/p>\n Terike Haapoja <\/strong>(she\/her) b. 1974, Helsinki, Finland; lives in Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n Carole Harris <\/strong>(she\/her) b. 1943, Detroit, MI; lives in Detroit, MI<\/p>\n Scott Hocking <\/strong>(he\/him) b. 1975, Detroit, MI; lives in Detroit, MI<\/p>\n G\u00f6zde \u0130lkin <\/strong>(they\/them) b. 1981, K\u00fctahya, T\u00fcrkiye; lives in \u0130stanbul, T\u00fcrkiye<\/p>\n AKI INOMATA <\/strong>(she\/her) b. 1983, Tokyo, Japan; lives in Tokyo, Japan<\/p>\n Richard Ibghy <\/strong>(he\/him) & Marilou Lemmens <\/strong>(she\/her) b. 1964, Montreal, Canada; lives in Durham-Sud, Canada b. 1976, Ascot Corner, Canada; lives in Durham-Sud, Canada<\/p>\n K\u00e4rt Ojavee <\/strong>(she\/her) b. 1982, Rakvere, Estonia; lives in Tallinn, Estonia<\/p>\n Anne Duk Hee Jordan <\/strong>(they\/them) b.1978, South Korea; lives in Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n Jane Jin Kaisen <\/strong>(she\/her) b. 1980, Jeju, South Korea; lives in Copenhagen, Denmark, and New York, NY<\/p>\n Matt Kenyon <\/strong>(he\/him) b. 1977, Baton Rouge, LA; lives in Buffalo, NY<\/p>\n Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge <\/strong>(she\/they) b. 1981, Maria, Quebec, Canada; lives in Rochester, NY<\/p>\n Dionne Lee <\/strong>(she\/her) b.1988, New York, NY; lives in Columbus, OH<\/p>\n Lina Lapelyt\u0117 <\/strong>(she\/her) b. 1984, Kaunas, Lithuania; lives in London, UK, and Vilnius, Lithuania<\/p>\n Matthew L\u00f3pez-Jensen <\/strong>(he\/him) b. 1980, CT; lives in Bronx, NY<\/p>\n Cathy Lu <\/strong>(she\/her) b. 1984, Miami, FL; lives in Richmond, CA<\/p>\n Mary Mattingly<\/strong> (she\/her) b. 1978, Rockville, CT; lives in New York, NY<\/p>\n Asad Raza <\/strong>(he\/him) b. 1974, Buffalo, NY; lives in Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n Gamaliel Rodriguez <\/strong>(he\/him) b.1977, Bayam\u00f3n, Puerto Rico; lives in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico<\/p>\n Deirdre O\u2019Mahony <\/strong>(she\/her) b. 1956, Limerick, Ireland; lives in Cork City, Ireland<\/p>\n Abraham O. Oghobase <\/strong>(he\/him) b.1979, Lagos, Nigeria; lives in Toronto, Canada<\/p>\n Selma Selman <\/strong>(she\/her) b. 1991, Biha\u0107, Bosnia and Herzegovina; lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands<\/p>\n Finnegan Shannon <\/strong>(they\/them) b. 1989, Berkeley, CA; lives in New York, NY<\/p>\n Jean Shin <\/strong>(she\/her) b. 1971, Seoul, South Korea; lives in Hurley, NY<\/p>\n SIDE CORE<\/strong> est. 2012, Tokyo, Japan; based in Tokyo, Japan<\/p>\n Victoria-Idongesit Udondian <\/strong>(she\/her) b. 1982, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria; lives in New York, NY, and Lagos, Nigeria<\/p>\n Mierle Laderman Ukeles <\/strong>(she\/her) b. 1939, Denver, CO; lives in New York, NY and Jerusalem, Israel<\/p>\n Michael Wang <\/strong>(he\/him) b. 1981, Olney, MD, USA; lives in Upper Grandview, NY<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/medina-triennial-2026-artist-list-1234780924\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Alice-Bucknell.png?w=1024″] The Medina Triennial, a new recurring art exhibition set to launch in the titular Western New York village this summer, has revealed the artist list for its inaugural edition, due to open on June 6 in close proximity to the Erie Canal. 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