Counterpublic has named the 47 artists and collectives that will take part in the triennial’s upcoming third edition, scheduled to run September 12–December 12 in St. Louis, Missouri.
In February, the five-person curatorial team—Jordan Carter, Raphael Fonseca, Stefanie Hessler, Nora N. Khan, and Wanda Nanibush—announced that their exhibition would be titled “Coyote Time,” which takes its name from a commission by Alice Bucknell.
In a statement, the curators said that the list features “artists working across material practice, time-based media, and emergent technologies” who together “address contested questions of our historical moment around the terms of civic life, displacement, ecological crisis, and the accelerating entanglements of computation and lived experience.”
Bucknell will be joined by several high-profile artists including Glenn Ligon, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch, Petrit Halilaj, Rebecca Belmore, Tom Burr, Tony Cokes, Nicholas Galanin, and Max Hooper Schneider. Two deceased artists will also have their work on view as part of the triennial: painter Juanita McNeely, who died in 2023, and Benjamin Patterson, a founding member of Fluxus who died in 2016.
A number of the artists showing in Counterpublic are also participating in other major biennials this year. The Whitney Biennial includes Cooper Jacoby, Malcolm Peacock, Margaret Honda, and Ali Eyal, who also featured in last year’s Made in L.A. biennial. Guadalupe Rosales and Carolina Caycedo will be showing in the Venice Biennale next month, while Li Yi-Fan will exhibit at the Carnegie International. Additionally, as part of an institution collaboration with Counterpublic, Frieze New York, running in May, will host an installation and performance by Kite.
Kite, Opening, opening, opening, opening, opening, opening, opening, opening, opening, 2025.
Photo Rik Sferra/Courtesy of the artist and Counterpublic
Ligon and Belmore’s commissions will serve as anchors on opposite ends of the Mississippi Riverfront, which will host more than a dozen works. Another major site for the triennial is The Ville, a historically Black neighborhood in the city’s north, which will feature works by Cokes, Honda, Dail Chambers, the People’s Art and Recreation Center, and Timmy Simmonds, who has made a series that looks at the history of the local Sumner High School.
“The Coyote Time artist list is decidedly diasporic in scope, reflecting a global outlook while remaining rooted in St. Louis at a moment marked by renewed borders and divisions,” James McAnally, Counterpublic’s executive and artistic director, said in a statement. “Artists and collectives are drawn equally from the exhibition’s immediate neighborhoods and the Global South, bringing multilingual and multifaceted perspectives to questions of civic structures, migration, identity, and technology. Across nearly fifty commissions, Coyote Time takes a speculative and socially oriented approach to the moment.”
The full artist list follows below.
Alice Bucknell, Coyote Time (production still), 2026.
Courtesy the artist and Counterpublic
Alan Nakagawa
Born in 1964 in Los Angeles, CA
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Ali Eyal
Born in 1994 in The Forest, Small Farm
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Alice Bucknell
Born in 1993 in London, United Kingdom
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Anika Todd
Born in 1992 in Boston, MA
Lives in St. Louis, MO
Benjamin Patterson
1934–2016
Born in Pittsburgh, PA
Brianna Leatherbury
Born in 1995 in Woodbridge, VA
Lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Carolina Caycedo
Born in 1978 in London, UK (Colombian)
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Chris Carl
Born in 1976 in Portsmouth, VA
Lives in Belleville, IL
Chris Curreri
Born in 1978
Lives in Toronto, Canada
Cooper Jacoby
Born in 1989 in Princeton, NJ
Lives in Paris, France
Dail Chambers
Lives in St. Louis, MO
Emma McCormick-Goodhart
Born in 1990, Alexandria, VA
Lives in London, United Kingdom
Glenn Ligon
Born in 1960 in The Bronx, NY
Lives in New York, NY
Guadalupe Rosales
Born in 1980 in Redwood City, CA
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Inès Kivimäki
Born in 1990 in Paris, France
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Jamie Lee Harris
Born 1987 in Notasulga, AL
Lives in St. Louis, MO
Jean-Marc Bullet and Céline Semaan
Jean-Marc Bullet
Born in 1980
Lives in Martinique
Céline Semaan
Born in 1982 in Beirut, Lebanon
Lives in New York, NY
Juanita McNeely
1936–2023
Born in Ferguson, MO
Kite
Born in 1990 in Sylmar, CA
Lives in Catskill, NY
Li Yi-Fan
Born in 1989 in Taipei, Taiwan
Lives in Taipei, Taiwan and
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Lisa Alvarado and Joshua Abrams
Lisa Alvarado
Born in 1982 in San Antonio, TX
Joshua Abrams
Born in 1973 in Boston, MA
Live in Chicago, IL
Lynne Smith
Born in 1969 in Dallas, TX
Live in St. Louis, MO
Malcolm Peacock
Born in 1994 in Raleigh, NC
Lives in Brooklyn, NY
Margaret Honda
Born in 1961 in San Diego, CA
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Max Hooper Schneider
Born in 1982 in Los Angeles, CA
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Mee Jey
Born in 1987 in New Delhi, India
Lives in St. Louis, MO
Nicholas Galanin
Born in 1979 in Sitka, AK
Lives in Sitka, AK
Occupy Vacancy
Brianna McIntyre
Born in 1992 in St. Louis, MO
André Fuqua
Born in 1993 in St. Louis, MO
Lives in St. Louis, MO
People’s Art and Recreation Center (PARC)
Christopher C. Loss
Born in 1982 in Carbondale, IL
Lives in St. Louis, MO
Petrit Halilaj
Born in 1986 in Kostërrc, Kosovo
Lives in Berlin, Germany
Rachel Youn
Born in 1994 in Abington, PA
Lives in North Haven, CT
Rebecca Belmore
Born in 1960 in Upsala, Canada
Lives in Toronto, Canada
Rirkrit Tiravanija with Soph Anderson and CB Roman
Born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lives in New York, NY
Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch
Ryan Trecartin
Born in 1981 in Webster, TX
Lizzie Fitch
Born in 1981 in Bloomington, IN
Live in Athens, OH
Sandra Brewster
Born in 1973 in Toronto, Canada
Lives in Toronto, Canada
Sebastián Llovera
Born in 1992 in Valera, Venezuela
Lives in St. Louis, MO
Sissel Tolaas
Born in 1965 in Stavanger, Norway
Lives in Berlin, Germany
Stephen Andrews
Born in 1956 in Sarnia, Canada
Lives in Toronto, Canada
Timmy Simonds
Born in 1989 in New York, NY
Lives in New York, NY
Tom Burr
Born in 1963 in New Haven, CT
Lives in New York, NY
Tony Cokes
Born in 1956 in Richmond, VA
Lives in Providence, RI
Tromarama
Febie Babyrose
Born in 1985 in Jakarta, Indonesia
Herbert Hans
Born in 1984 in Jakarta, Indonesia
Ruddy Hatumena
Born in 1984 in Manama, Bahrain
Live in Jakarta and Bandung, Indonesia
Won Ju Lim
Born in 1968 in Gwangju, South Korea
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Ximena Garrido-Lecca
Born in 1980 in Lima, Peru
Lives in Mexico City, Mexico and Lima, Peru
Yatika Fields
Born in 1980 in Tulsa, OK
Lives in Tulsa, OK
Vaughn Davis Jr.
Born in 1995 in St. Louis, MO
Lives in St. Louis, MO
