Shea Hembrey

I thought, 'A biennial needs artists. I'm going to do an international biennial; I need artists from all around the world.' So what I did was I invented a hundred artists from around the world. I figured out their bios, their passions in life and their art styles, and I started making their work.

American Artist

Jerry Saltz

Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.

American Critic

Everett Dirksen

We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

American Politician

Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.

Used when describing events that occur with a two-year gap, not annually.

Event Frequency

Helpful for planning or discussing occurrences that are not part of a yearly schedule.

Non-Yearly Plans

Commonly refers to official, governmental, or formal events and activities.

Official Occasions

Describes plants that complete their life cycle over two growing seasons.

Plant Lifecycles

Important term for gardeners planning the layout and lifecycle of their garden.

Gardening Planning

Biennials are not to be mistaken for annuals, which live for a single season.

Not Annuals

 it without getting wet I'm using this sculpture material to trace the paths of subway trains above-ground in real time like an x-ray of the city circulatory system unfolding next challenge the biennial of the Americas in Denver asked could i represent the 35 nations of the

Taking imagination...

 So I started thinking and listing what all it was that I thought would make a perfect biennial. So I decided, I'm going to start my own biennial. I'm going to organize it and direct it and get it going in the world.