Zoe Strauss is in the 2006 Whitney Biennial!!! Here’s the artist’s email blast from the inbox last night, written in her inimitable deadpan style: 
UNBELIEVABLE NEWS.
I WILL BE IN THE 2006 WHITNEY BIENNIAL.
MORE LATER.
YOU HEARD ME.
WHITNEY BIENNIAL.
WWW.ZOESTRAUSS.BLOGSPOT.COM
WAIT, SERIOUSLY, THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL.
http://www.whitney.org/exhibition/biennial.shtml
YOU KNOW, THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL, AS IN THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL.
LOVE,
The full story on her blog is worth a read, too. It tells of the phone call that posed one question, (paraphrasing) “You want to be in the show?” and one answer, “Yes.”
As Rob Matthews put it when he shared the news and the joy and the list of names, “HOLY CRAP!” See today’s NY Times for the Carol Vogel story and in the left bar is a link to the list of names which I’m putting here just to save you the click. I really love some of the pairings which are totally surreal (Dan Graham and Rodney Graham?…Mark de Suvero and Rirkrit Tiravanija?)
Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla
Dawolu Jabari Anderson
Kenneth Anger
Dominic Angerame
Anonymous Collection
Christina Battle
James Benning
Bernadette Corporation
Amy Blakemore
Louise Bourque
Mark Bradford
Troy Brauntuch
Anthony Burdin
George Butler
Carter
Carolina Caycedo
The Center for Land Use Interpretation
Paul Chan
Lori Cheatle and Daisy Wright
Ira Cohen
Martha Colburn
Dan Colen
Anne Collier
Tony Conrad
Critical Art Ensemble
Jamal Cyrus
Deep Dish Television
Lucas DeGiulio
Mark di Suvero and Rirkrit Tiravanija
Peter Doig
Trisha Donnelly
Jimmie Durham
Kenya Evans
Urs Fischer
David Gatten
Joe Gibbons
Robert Gober
Deva Graf
Dan Graham and Tony Oursler with Rodney Graham, Laurent Berger, and Japanther
Rodney Graham
Hannah Greely
Mark Grotjahn
Jay Heikes
Doug Henry
Pierre Huyghe
Dorothy Ianonne
Matthew Day Jackson
Cameron Jamie
Natalie Jeremijenko
Daniel Johnston
Lewis Klahr
Jutta Koether
Andrew Lampert
Lisa Lapinski
Liz Larner
Hanna Liden
Jeanne Liotta
Marie Losier
Florian Maier-Aichen
Monica Majoli
Yuri Masnyj
T. Kelly Mason and Diana Thater
Adam McEwen
Taylor Mead
Josephine Meckseper
Marilyn Minter
Momus
Matthew Monahan
JP Munro
Jesús “Bubu” Negrón
Kori Newkirk
Todd Norsten
Jim O’Rourke
Otabenga Jones & Associates
Steve Parrino
Ed Paschke
Mathias Poledna
Robert A. Pruitt
Jennifer Reeves
Richard Serra
Gedi Sibony
Jennie Smith
Dash Snow
Michael Snow
Reena Spaulings
Rudolf Stingel
Angela Strassheim
Zoe Strauss
Studio Film Club
Sturtevant
Billy Sullivan
Spencer Sweeney
Ryan Trecartin
Chris Vasell
Francesco Vezzoli
Kelley Walker
Nari Ward
Christopher Williams
Jordan Wolfson
The Wrong Gallery
Aaron Young
