EARLY CLOSURE: The Studio Museum in Harlem will close at 4:00pm on Sunday, February 22, 2026.

Studio Museum in Harlem

A sustained becoming: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2026

Artist-in-Residence

Tone

Exhibition

Exhibitions

Staff Pick: Dawoud Bey, Deas McNeil, the Barber (from the series "Harlem, U.S.A."), 1976

Staff Pick: Widline Cadet, Si Ou Ta Dwe Bliye Wout Lakay Ou (Lè Tout Limyè Yo Etenn) (Should You Forget Your Way Home (When All The Lights Go Off)), 2021

Staff Picks: Wangechi Mutu, Chocolate Nguva, 2015

Staff Picks: Leonardo Drew, Number 74, 1998

At MoMA: Jack Whitten, Dead Reckoning I and Khee I

Twenty Five Years of Expanding the Walls

Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Expanding the Walls

Diaspora

New Additions: Tunji Adeniyi-Jones

Black Refractions

The Studio Museum in Harlem 50 Years

Dreams of This Future: The Collection of Peggy Cooper Cafritz

Unpacking the Studio Museum: Our Team

Unpacking the Studio Museum: Our Neighborhood

From The Studio: Fifty-Eight Years of Artists in Residence

Conserving Tom Lloyd

The Life and Legacy of Tom Lloyd

Making an Exhibition

Unpacking the Studio Museum: Our Museum

From the Studio: Fifty-Eight Years of Artists in Residence

Spend a Day in Harlem

Kia Labeija
Born 1990, New York, NY
Lives and works in New York, NY
In Search of the Sweet Life // Kia Labeija on Sugar Hill, 2015

Harlem Postcards: Street, Stage, Sanctuary, Stoop

Unpacking the Studio Museum: Our History

Celebrating One Hundred Years of Art at the Schomburg

Become a member and experience the new Studio Museum in Harlem

Arts & Minds

Adults

Tour

Tours

Event

Events

Access Programs

October Member Night

Members

Obsidian: Soil, Soul, Song

Join Our Programs

An Interview with  Timothy Stockton, Visitor Services Coordinator

Glenn Ligon, Sketch for  Give Us a Poem, 2025

Dive deeper into our collection and current exhibitions on Bloomberg Connects.

Faith Ringgold

Echoes of Harlem

Al Loving

Variations on a Six Sided Object

Nina Chanel Abney

Untitled

Mavis Pusey

Impact on Vibration

Philip Kwame Apagya

Come on Board

Studio Museum in Harlem Announces Fall 2026 Season, Concluding Inaugural Year With Highlights From Its Unparalleled Permanent Collection and Showcase of Works from the 2026 Artists in Residence

Learn More About our Fall 2026 Season

Maren Hassinger
Monuments, 2018.
Photo: Adam Reich

Harlem Public Art Tour

Panel Installation in the New Building

inHarlem: A Look at Public Art in Harlem Then and Now

Brand Identity

Lea K. Green Artist Talk featuring Carrie Mae Weems

A Collection is Born

Explore Works in the Collection

Discover Where Black Art Lives

Studio Museum in Harlem is the nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally, and internationally and for work that has been inspired and influenced by Black culture. It is a site for the dynamic exchange of ideas about art and society.