The Whitney has chosen an art curator and a stage director to shape its next Biennial. Meg Onli, a curator at the museum, and Zack Winokur, a director whose work spans opera, dance and theater, will organize the 2028 edition of New York’s long-running survey of contemporary American art, the museum announced Friday.

Onli is not new to the assignment. She co-organized the Whitney Biennial in 2024 and is currently a co-curator of the museum’s Roy Lichtenstein: Like New exhibition. Winokur is co-founder and artistic director of the American Modern Opera Company, known as AMOC*, and previously served as artistic director of Little Island.

The pairing suggests a Biennial that could move more freely between the gallery and the stage, although the museum has not yet announced its participating artists or exhibition program. In a statement, Whitney director Scott Rothkopf praised Onli’s curatorial work and Winokur’s programming across opera, theater, dance and visual art.

For Onli, the appointment is a return to one of the museum’s defining exhibitions. “I’m thrilled to be returning to the Whitney Biennial,” she said in the announcement. Winokur said he was excited by the chance to work in service of other artists alongside Onli.

The Whitney said the show will open in March 2028. Founded in 1932 as an exhibition series established by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the Biennial has long been a closely watched barometer of the contemporary art world. The new appointment puts two figures with distinctly different professional backgrounds at the center of its next chapter.