Studio Museum in Harlem
museum · Harlem
The institutional center of contemporary Black art in NYC. Currently programming offsite while their new building is under construction.
On view
at an arm's length: Expanding the Walls 2025Fifteen teenage photographers from the Studio Museum's Expanding the Walls program explore cautious intimacy and adolescent reserve through soft-focus and black-and-white imagery.
From Now: A Collection in ContextA dynamic, rotating collection display featuring over 800 artists of African descent, from the 19th century to present, organized thematically throughout the museum building.
To Be A PlaceA visual timeline of the Studio Museum in Harlem's nearly sixty-year history, tracing the institution from its former Fifth Avenue location to its current home on 125th Street through archival documen
FadeSeventeen early-career artists of African and Afro-Latinx descent explore spirituality, surrealism, and nonlinear time to locate spaces of possibility.
Through Motion and Repose: Expanding the Walls 2026Seventeen teen photographers from the Studio Museum's Expanding the Walls program capture motion and repose in New York City streets and intimate domestic spaces.
Kapwani Kiwanga: BLEEDKapwani Kiwanga's site-specific installation transposes Underground Railroad quilt codes into naturally dyed fabric, layering histories of slavery, resistance, and botanical knowledge.
Artist InstallationsThree landmark installations by Houston E. Conwill, David Hammons, and Glenn Ligon exploring time, identity, and language through bronze capsules, flag imagery, and neon text.
Camille Norment: Untitled (heliotrope)Camille Norment's handwoven brass sculptural and sound installation, evoking both pipe organ and raft, explores migration and diasporic displacement on the Studio Museum's terrace staircase.
Christopher Myers: Harlem Is a MythA site-specific metal installation depicting mythic Harlem figures—Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as a centaur, jazz legends with wings, and young people with animal features—exploring inner stories and magic.