Looking Back / The 16th White Columns Annual – Selected by Augusto Arbizo

White Columns is pleased to announce the 16th edition of its Annual exhibition Looking Back, which has been selected by the New York-based curator and advisor Augusto Arbizo. About this year's edition Arbizo has said, "New York art-viewing in 2025 felt unusually generous, shaped for me by a series of charged encounters across galleries, museums, artist studios, and art fairs. The works gathered here share an ethos of obsession and relentlessness—artists pressing their ideas and processes to the edge, testing what inherited forms can still hold. What lingers are moments of recognition and surprise: sustained encounters with artists such as Pacita Abad, Sylvia Sleigh, Atsuko Tanaka, and Jack Whitten, alongside quieter breakthroughs by younger artists including Hardy Hill, Brandon Morris, and Yu Nishimura." The 'Annual' exhibitions hope to reveal something of the complexities involved in trying to negotiate – and engage with – New York's constantly shifting cultural landscapes, encouraging highly subjective and personal responses to the realities of viewing art in New York City.