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

Twenty Five Years of Expanding the Walls

Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Expanding the Walls

A Shout, a Call, an Echo — Capturing the Echo: Expanding the Walls 2022

Expanding the Walls: Past, Present, and Future

Honoring a Teen Space

Viewfinders and Vinyl: An Interview with Photographer Sen Floyd

Spotlight on Education

Expanding the Walls & Devin Allen

ETW students experimenting with the mirrored set built by Simpson Photo: Wesley Coram

Points of Inspiration: A Day with Lorna Simpson

at an arm's length: Expanding the Walls 2025

Exhibition

Exhibitions

Studio Museum in Harlem

Making an Exhibition

Unpacking the Studio Museum: Our Museum

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

Unpacking the Studio Museum: Our Team

Unpacking the Studio Museum: Our Neighborhood

Unpacking the Studio Museum: Our History

To Be A Place

Christopher Myers: Harlem Is a Myth

Installation

Camille Norment: Untitled (heliotrope)

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

From Now: A Collection in Context

Glenn Ligon, Sketch for  Give Us a Poem, 2025

Collection in Context: Text-Based

Artist Installations

Qualeasha Wood. Photo: Jeremy Grier

Ideal Selfie

Kapwani Kiwanga: BLEED

Fade: A Roundtable with Curators Adria Gunter, Habiba Hopson, Yelena Keller, Jayson Overby Jr., and Kiki Teshome

Fade

The Stoop, Studio Museum in Harlem

Story Time

Kids and Family

Reading

Readings

Event

Events

Education Workshop, Studio Museum in Harlem

Drop-In Artmaking

Gallery Talks

Tour

Tours

Permanent Collection

Studio Museum In Harlem

Member Night: Pride Edition

Members

Museums as Systems 2026

Conversation

Conversations

Workshop

Workshops & Courses

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

Conserving Tom Lloyd

The Life and Legacy of Tom Lloyd

An Interview with  Timothy Stockton, Visitor Services Coordinator

Book Your Ticket

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

Celebrating One Hundred Years of Art at the Schomburg

Become a Member

Creating Space

New Additions: Derek Fordjour

New Additions: Nikita Gale

New Additions: Brandon Ndife

New Additions: Zora J Murff

New Additions: Vladimir Cybil Charlier

New Additions: Jadé Fadojutimi

New Additions: Tunji Adeniyi-Jones

A Collection is Born

Cassi Namoda

Jared Owens

Nikita Gale

Vladimir Cybil Charlier, Billie Zulie, 1997. Aluminum, fabric, acrylic, sequins, beads, and hardware. Open: 8 x 13 x 5 in. (20.3 x 33 x 12.7 cm). The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of the artist&nbsp; 2022.9. Photo: John Berens

New Additions

Collection in Context

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

Black Refractions

Lea K. Green Artist Talk featuring Carrie Mae Weems

The Studio Museum in Harlem 50 Years

Faith Ringgold

Echoes of Harlem

Tom Lloyd

Moussakoo

Lorraine O'Grady

Art Is…(Girlfriends Times Two)

Nubile

Houston E. Conwill

The Joyful Mysteries

Glenn Ligon

Give Us a Poem

James Van Der Zee

The Midnight Ramblers

Explore Works in the Collection

New Works in the Collection

See Exhibitions & Events

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.