noted that it was the first Whitney Biennial to treat video works with the same attention to space as sculpture, designating two entire galleries to them. She highlighted that text-heavy installations demanded attention and participation and that the artists made it difficult to take in the work as a passive viewer.

Since 2000, the Bucksbaum Award has been awarded to an artist exhibiting at the Biennial. The 2014 Whitney Biennial was also somewhat controversial for its lack of diversity, nine of