Studio Museum in Harlem Appoints Ade Omotosho as Associate Curator
HARLEM, NEW YORK, NY, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2026 — The Studio Museum in Harlem today announced the appointment of Ade Omotosho as Associate Curator. Omotosho will take up his new role on Monday, November 16, 2026, reporting to Chief Program Officer Natasha Logan. He will lead the long-term planning and oversight of the Museum’s permanent collection, which currently represents more than eight hundred artists, spans the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries, and contains approximately nine thousand objects.
Omotosho was a 2025 participant in the Museum’s Arts Leadership Praxis and arrives at the institution as it celebrates the end of its first year in its new purpose-built home, which affords the Museum expanded exhibition, education, and public programming space. Since opening to the public on November 15, 2025, the Museum has leveraged its amplified exhibition capabilities by spotlighting a diverse selection of works from its permanent collection. By the end of 2026, nearly five hundred works from its collection will have been displayed. Omotosho will continue the execution of the Museum’s strategy for its permanent collection, which affirms the Museum’s mission as the nexus for local, national, and international artists of African descent through the preservation, presentation, and interpretation of works by these very same artists.
Omotosho said, “I’m thrilled to be joining the Studio Museum in Harlem at a pivotal moment in the institution’s history. From its inception, the Museum has championed the range of practices of artists of African descent, supplying a way of seeing that remains vital and necessary in our cultural landscape.”
Natasha Logan, Chief Program Officer of the Studio Museum in Harlem, said, “The Studio Museum in Harlem is delighted to welcome Ade Omotosho, an accomplished and adept curator whose thoughtful approach and breadth of experience will greatly enhance our mission to support and amplify artists of African descent through the care and growth of our permanent collection.”
Omotosho is a curator, writer, and art historian from Dallas. He joins the Studio Museum from the Dallas Museum of Art, where he served as the Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art. He previously worked in the curatorial departments at Pérez Art Museum Miami and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He received a BA in art history from the University of Texas at Austin with a certificate in African studies, and an MA from the Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art. He has contributed writing to exhibition catalogues at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the 2024 Venice Biennale, Made in LA 2023, and Prospect.5, among others.
About the Studio Museum in Harlem
Founded in 1968 by a diverse group of artists, community activists, and philanthropists, the Studio Museum in Harlem is internationally known for its catalytic role in promoting the work of artists of African descent. The Studio Museum’s new home, situated at its longtime location on West 125th Street, opened to the public on November 15, 2025. Designed by Adjaye Associates, with Corgan (formerly Cooper Robertson) serving as executive architect, the building—the first created expressly for the institution’s program—enables the Studio Museum to better serve a growing and diverse audience, provide additional educational opportunities for people of all ages, expand its program of world-renowned exhibitions, effectively display its singular collection, and strengthen its trailblazing Artist-in-Residence program.
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Visitor Information
The Studio Museum in Harlem is located at 144 West 125th Street, between Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox Avenue) and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard (Seventh Avenue).
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