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

Studio Museum in Harlem

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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

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

Ideal Selfie

Kapwani Kiwanga: BLEED

Installation

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

Conserving Tom Lloyd

The Life and Legacy of Tom Lloyd

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 and experience the new Studio Museum in Harlem

Fall Member Preview

Members

Studio Museum in Harlem: The Stoop

Now Is the Time: Artists Go to Work

Adults

Conversation

Conversations

Harlem Library

Lil' Studio at Harlem Library

Kids and Family

Workshop

Workshops & Courses

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

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

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

Announcing 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

Qualeasha Wood. Photo: Jeremy Grier

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.