Kehinde Wiley, Rubin Singleton, 2008, Courtesy artist and Deitch Projects

The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar is Kehinde Wiley’s (b. 1977) first solo exhibition at The Studio Museum in Harlem and features ten new paintings from his multinational “The World Stage” series.

Tanea Richardson, In Protection of Our Bodies, 2008, Courtesy the artist, Photo: Marc Bernier

Leslie Hewitt, Riffs on Real Time (1 of 10), 2006-9, Courtesy the artist

Saya Woolfalk, Self (adolescent – pink) and Self (adolescent – blue), 2008, Courtesy the artist, Photo: Marc Bernier

The Studio Museum’s mezzanine galleries will be transformed by three bodies of new work and site-specific installations in New Intuitions. Leslie Hewitt, Tanea Richardson and Saya Woolfalk have markedly distinct practices, but each artist insists on raising questions about our accepted ways of seeing reality.

Senga Nengudi, R.S.V.P. V, fall 1976, Courtesy Thomas Erben Gallery, New York

Rashawn Griffin, Untitled (detail), 2008, Courtesy the artist, Photo: Collier Schorr

Senga Nengudi (b. 1943) is a truly multidisciplinary artist whose career has covered dance, sculpture, installation, video, text and performance.

Christeen Penon, Cognate Souls, 2008, Courtesy the artist

The young photographers in this year’s Expanding the Walls exhibition, Eye Notes, approach documentary art in a variety of ways as they present their work alongside a selection of James VanDerZee’s classic Harlem portraits.

Edgar Arceneaux, 1968, 1997, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Courtesy the artist

Nearly forty years ago, shortly after opening its doors to the public, The Studio Museum in Harlem established its permanent collection through the generosity of both artists and donors.

Miguel Calderón, Purple Haze/Purple Rain, 2008

The Studio Museum’s ongoing series, Harlem Postcards, invites contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds to reflect on Harlem as a site for artistic contemplation and production.