Permanent Collection
Fall 2025
Jordan Casteel, Kevin the Kiteman, 2016
The Studio Museum’s permanent collection represents more than 800 artists, spans over 200 years of history, and includes nearly 9,000 works of art. A rotating thematic installation of works from the collection will explore the evolving artistic canon through the diverse interests, practices, and voices of artists of African descent. The exhibition will present a rich tapestry of Black artistic production and encourage a plurality of narratives through a display of iconic works alongside those newly acquired, rarely exhibited, and recently conserved.
Augmenting the installation will be a new collection handbook, Meaning Matter Memory: Selections from the Studio Museum in Harlem Collection, which highlights works by more than two hundred and sixty artists.
Bank of America is the Studio Museum in Harlem’s lead opening and inaugural exhibitions sponsor. Major support for the inaugural exhibitions and publications has been provided by the Henry Luce Foundation.
Support for the collection handbook, Meaning Matter Memory: Selections from the Studio Museum in Harlem Collection, is thanks in part to the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Additional funding is generously provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts.
Permanent Collection
Fall 2025
Jordan Casteel, Kevin the Kiteman, 2016
The Studio Museum’s permanent collection represents more than 800 artists, spans over 200 years of history, and includes nearly 9,000 works of art. A rotating thematic installation of works from the collection will explore the evolving artistic canon through the diverse interests, practices, and voices of artists of African descent. The exhibition will present a rich tapestry of Black artistic production and encourage a plurality of narratives through a display of iconic works alongside those newly acquired, rarely exhibited, and recently conserved.
Augmenting the installation will be a new collection handbook, Meaning Matter Memory: Selections from the Studio Museum in Harlem Collection, which highlights works by more than two hundred and sixty artists.
Bank of America is the Studio Museum in Harlem’s lead opening and inaugural exhibitions sponsor. Major support for the inaugural exhibitions and publications has been provided by the Henry Luce Foundation.
Support for the collection handbook, Meaning Matter Memory: Selections from the Studio Museum in Harlem Collection, is thanks in part to the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Additional funding is generously provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts.