Join us for an online discussion with 2021–22 Studio Museum artists in residence Cameron Granger, Jacob Mason-Macklin, and Qualeasha Wood moderated by Yelena Keller, Assistant Curator. In celebration of the opening of It’s time for me to go: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2021–22, hear the artists speak about the work they created over the course of the residency program. 

In addition to the discussion between Granger, Mason-Macklin, and Wood, there will be a special behind-the-scenes walk-through of the exhibition and an audience Q&A. 

It’s time for me to go opens to the public at MoMA PS1 on November 17, 2022, and closes on February 27, 2023. 

Live CART captioning and ASL interpretation will be provided.  

The title phrase, "It’s time for me to go," proposes the gallery as a site of both departure and arrival, and the act of making as an experience of release and embrace. With practices spanning new media, painting, and textiles, these artists explore the relationships and tensions among physical, digital, and psychic space. As the title suggests, the works in this exhibition grapple with the tenderness of loss, the expansiveness of change, and the weight of becoming. In turn, imagining the future becomes an invitation to remember.

Cameron Granger explores how architecture, geography, and community function as containers for memories. The installations on view honor his late grandmother and serve as a remembrance of the house she lived in, and the memories made in community within it. Jacob Mason- Macklin’s new series of paintings traces the subtle collapse of public versus private that occurs where sidewalks and streets become gathering sites charged with human interaction in a shared space. Drawing inspiration from the streets of Harlem, Mason-Macklin’s paintings wrestle with the boundaries between looking, surveilling, and seeing. Qualeasha Wood’s work confronts and reclaims the experience of navigating and existing on the internet as a Black femme. Her textile-based works explore the duality of being both celebrated and reviled by recognizing and amplifying the gaze cast upon her.

The Studio Museum in Harlem’s Artist-in-Residence program is supported by the Glenstone Foundation; The American Express Kenneth and Kathryn Chenault Sponsorship Fund; National Endowment for the Arts; Joy of Giving Something; Robert Lehman Foundation; New York State Council on the Arts; Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; Jerome Foundation; Anonymous; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; and by endowments established by the Andrea Frank Foundation; the Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Trust; and Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Support for It’s time for me to go at MoMA PS1 is generously provided by the Tom Slaughter Exhibition Fund and the MoMA PS1 Trustee Annual Fund.  

The Studio Museum in Harlem’s Learning and Engagement programs are supported by the Thompson Foundation Education Fund; Van Cleef & Arpels; William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust; Con Edison; Harlem Community Development Corporation; May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation; Sony Music Group; and Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts.  

Additional support provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts.