The Studio Museum in Harlem - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for The Studio Museum in Harlem. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
Firelei Báez “Joy Out of Fire”
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[1]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2018-05-01 - 2018-11-24
Firelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire continues the artist’s longstanding interest in representations of women, particularly Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latina women in visual culture and history. In this exhibition,...More »
Jacob Lawrence “Their Own Harlems”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2017-07-20 - 2018-01-07
In honor of the centennial of the birth of Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000), Their Own Harlems examines the ways in which the urban landscape has influenced Lawrence’s artistic practice, as well as that of other...More »
“Harlem Postcards Summer 2017” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Illustration - Photography - Prints
- 2017-07-20 - 2017-09-10
Harlem Postcards is an ongoing project that invites contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds to reflect on Harlem as a site of cultural activity, political vitality, visual stimuli, artistic contemplation...More »
Derrick Adams “Patrick Kelly, The Journey”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2017-05-03 - 2017-10-20
Derrick Adams: Patrick Kelly, The Journey is an inHarlem project presented by The Studio Museum in Harlem in partnership with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the New York Public...More »
“Excerpt” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2017-01-26 - 2017-07-02
Exploring how artists challenge conventional histories by manipulating the principal medium through which received ideas are conveyed—printed texts—The Studio Museum in Harlem will present the exhibition...More »
“Black Cowboy” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Film
- 2016-11-17 - 2017-03-05
Mention the word “cowboy,” and the image that most often comes to mind—from American paintings, vintage films and television shows—is a lone ranger astride a noble white horse overlooking the plains of...More »
“Circa 1970” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Prints - Sculpture
- 2016-11-17 - 2017-03-05
Circa 1970 presents paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and sculpture from the Studio Museum’s collection. The featured works, all made between 1970 and 1979, reflect the historical, socio-political...More »
“VideoStudio: Meeting Points” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2016-11-17 - 2017-03-05
This new presentation in the VideoStudio series offers three videos that explore the formation of identity through cultural exchange. Works by Theo Eshetu, Ezra Wube and Zineb Sedira depict complex European...More »
“The Window and the Breaking of the Window” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2016-11-17 - 2017-03-05
Since its founding in 1968, the Studio Museum has exhibited work by black artists committed to bearing witness to acts of protest. Now, in an exhibition that takes its name from one of Pope.L’s “Skin Set”...More »
“Tenses” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2016-07-14 - 2016-10-30
Tenses presents recent works by 2015–16 artists in residence: painter Jordan Casteel (b. 1989), and multimedia artists EJ Hill (b. 1985) and Jibade-Khalil Huffman (b. 1981). The exhibition’s title suggests...More »
“Color in Shadow - Expanding the Walls 2016” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2016-07-14 - 2016-10-30
The Studio Museum’s Expanding the Walls program, founded in 2001, is a photography-based residency for young emerging artists enrolled in high schools or equivalent programs in New York City, providing...More »
“Harlem Postcards Summer 2016” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Illustration - Photography
- 2016-07-14 - 2016-10-30
Harlem Postcards is an ongoing project that invites contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds to reflect on Harlem as a site of cultural activity, political vitality, visual stimuli, artistic contemplation...More »
Alma Thomas Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2016-07-14 - 2016-10-30
Alma Thomas examines the evolution of an artist who created a highly personal style that expanded upon traditional Abstract Expressionist and Washington Color School practices through experimentations...More »
Richard Hunt “Framed and Extended”
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2016-07-14 - 2017-01-15
Chicago-based sculptor Richard Hunt (b. 1935) is best known for his public commissions sited in more than 125 parks, schools and public areas across the nation, including the intersection of 125th Street...More »
Ebony G. Patterson “…when they grow up…”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2016-03-24 - 2016-06-26
The Studio Museum’s Project Space will feature a new site-specific, mixed-media installation by Ebony G. Patterson on the subject of violence committed against young people of color (including deadly police...More »
Ariel Jackson “Focus”
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2016-03-24 - 2016-06-26
Focus: Ariel Jackson presents a trio of short videos related to what constitutes the “blues,” specifically the melancholic music of black American folk origin. Using samples of music and images from television,...More »
Rashaad Newsome “THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO SEE”
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2016-03-24 - 2016-06-26
Rashaad Newsome: THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO SEE spotlights multimedia artist Rashaad Newsome’s work about the dance form known as Vogue. For over a decade, Newsome has worked with members of the Vogue community,...More »
“Surface Area: Selections from the Permanent Collection” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2016-03-24 - 2016-06-26
Artists and critics have long explored different ways to think about the surface of an artwork, from making it seem to dissolve into a perspectival illusion to emphasizing its physical presence as a flat...More »
Rodney McMillian “Views of Main Street”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2016-03-24 - 2016-06-26
For more than a decade, Rodney McMillian has been exploring the domain of home as part of a larger examination of the intersection of race, class, gender and socioeconomic policy. Rodney McMillian: Views...More »
“Palatable: Food and Contemporary Art” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2016-03-24 - 2016-06-26
Palatable: Food and Contemporary Art examines how contemporary artists use food as a means to address issues of politics, memory, heritage, race and culture. Even within self-identified communities, variations...More »
“Harlem Postcards Spring 2016” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Illustration - Drawing - Photography
- 2016-03-24 - 2016-06-26
Harlem Postcards is an ongoing project that invites contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds to reflect on Harlem as a site of cultural activity, political vitality, visual stimuli, artistic contemplation...More »
“Black: Color, Material, Concept” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Prints - Sculpture
- 2015-11-12 - 2016-03-06
Black: Color, Material, Concept presents works that explore the ways that modern and contemporary artists of African descent consider the possibilities of “black” through their choice of media, their imagery...More »
Marc Andre Robinson “Twice Told”
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2015-11-12 - 2016-03-06
Brooklyn-based artist Marc Andre Robinson (b.1972) is known for sculptures that engage his long-standing interests in the history and culture of African Americans. Composed of the back legs of chairs and...More »
Danielle Dean “Focus”
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2015-11-12 - 2016-03-06
In 2003, Nike released a sneaker called “True Red,” which was marketed as the vampire sneaker. By turning True Red into the protagonist of an animation, Dean explores the capacity for objects to seemingly...More »
“A Constellation” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2015-11-12 - 2016-03-06
A Constellation traces connections among twenty-six artists of African descent: eight who emerged in the mid- to late twentieth century, and who are represented in the exhibition by works from the Studio...More »
“One Stop Down: Expanding the Walls 2015” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2015-07-16 - 2015-10-25
Expanding the Walls: Making Connections Between Photography, History and Community is an annual, eight-month residency in which New York–area high school students explore the history and techniques of...More »
Stanley Whitney “Dance the Orange”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2015-07-16 - 2015-10-25
The Studio Museum in Harlem presents Stanley Whitney: Dance the Orange, the first New York City solo museum exhibition of the work of a painter (born Philadelphia, 1946) whose intensely color-based abstractions...More »
“Harlem Postcards Summer 2015” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Graphics - Other
- 2015-07-16 - 2015-10-25
Harlem Postcards is an ongoing project that invites contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds to reflect on Harlem as a site of cultural activity, political vitality, visual stimuli, artistic contemplation...More »
Sadie Barnette, Lauren Halsey and Eric Mack “Everything, Everyday: Artists in Residence 2014–15”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2015-07-16 - 2015-10-25
Everything, Everyday presents three emerging artists whose innovative works, while diverse in form and subject matter, reflect overlapping affinities. Sadie Barnette, Lauren Halsey and Eric Mack explore...More »
Lorraine O’Grady “Art Is…”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Performance Art
- 2015-07-16 - 2016-03-06
Over the course of more than three decades, artist and cultural critic Lorraine O’Grady has won acclaim for her installations, performances and texts addressing the subjects of diaspora, hybridity and...More »
“Harlem Postcards Spring 2015” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Graphics - Photography - Prints - Other
- 2015-03-26 - 2015-06-28
Harlem Postcards is an ongoing project that invites contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds to reflect on Harlem as a site of cultural activity, political vitality, visual stimuli, artistic contemplation...More »
“Salon Style” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Fashion - Other
- 2015-03-26 - 2015-06-28
Hair and nails are universal sites of expression, sites where one’s identity and personhood can be asserted, however temporarily. Through an interdisciplinary examination, Salon Style looks at artists...More »
“In Profile: Portraits from the Permanent Collection” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture
- 2015-03-26 - 2015-06-28
In Profile brings together modern and contemporary works from the Studio Museum’s permanent collection that exemplify certain approaches to portraiture, with a specific focus on works that embody the concept...More »
Trenton Doyle Hancock “Skin and Bones, 20 Years of Drawing”
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Other
- 2015-03-26 - 2015-06-28
Trenton Doyle Hancock: Skin and Bones, 20 Years of Drawing chronicles the foundation and evolution of Hancock’s prolific career and is the first in-depth examination of the artist’s extensive body of drawings,...More »
Samuel Levi Jones “Unbound”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Other
- 2015-03-26 - 2015-06-28
Samuel Levi Jones (b. 1978) deconstructs and manipulates books such as encyclopedias and textbooks, to critically explore systems of knowledge and power. Samuel Levi Jones: Unbound, the artist’s first...More »
“Concealed: Selections from the Permanent Collection” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Fashion - Other
- 2015-03-26 - 2015-06-28
Concealed: Selections from the Permanent Collection includes works by modern and contemporary artists that address masking as art and performance. “Masking” is broadly defined in art history as the presence...More »
Titus Kaphar “The Jerome Project”
[0] [1]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2014-11-13 - 2015-03-08
Titus Kaphar (b. 1976) is celebrated for producing paintings, drawings and installations that initiate a contemporary dialogue with history. Marrying eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American portraiture...More »
“Harlem Postcards” Exhibition
[0] [1]- Media: Graphics - Illustration - Other
- 2014-11-13 - 2015-03-08
Harlem Postcards is an ongoing project that invites contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds to reflect on Harlem as a site of cultural activity, political vitality, visual stimuli, artistic contemplation...More »
“Speaking of People Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Installation
- 2014-11-13 - 2015-03-08
Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art explores the ways contemporary artists use Ebony and Jet as a resource and as inspiration in their practices. Published by Johnson Publishing Company...More »
Kianja Strobert “Of This Day in Time”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Other
- 2014-11-13 - 2015-03-08
Her dynamic explorations of acrylic, ink and other materials have established Kianja Strobert (b. 1980) as an innovative voice in contemporary abstraction. Kianja Strobert: Of This Day in Time, the artist’s...More »
Charles Gaines “Gridwork 1974–1989”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2014-07-17 - 2014-10-26
Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974–1989 is the first museum survey of Los Angeles–based conceptual artist Charles Gaines’s early work. The exhibition features seventy-five works from the beginning of a singular...More »
“Harlem Postcards Summer 2014” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2014-07-17 - 2014-10-26
Harlem Postcards is an ongoing project that invites contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds to reflect on Harlem as a site of cultural activity, political vitality, visual stimuli, artistic contemplation...More »
“Material Histories Artists in Residence 2013–14” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2014-07-17 - 2014-10-26
Material Histories is the most recent in a series of exhibitions featuring work of Kevin Beasley (b. 1985), Bethany Collins (b. 1984) and Abigail DeVille (b. 1981), three emerging artists who have been...More »
“Under Another Name” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Installation
- 2014-07-17 - 2015-03-08
Under Another Name borrows its title from a line that appears in Renée Green’s letterpress print William Morris. In it, she cites William Morris, a 19th century English artist, writer, textile designer...More »
“Vantage Point: Expanding the Walls 2014” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2014-07-17 - 2014-10-26
Expanding the Walls: Making Connections Between Photography, History and Community is an annual, eight-month residency in which New York–area high school students explore the history and techniques of...More »
“When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture
- 2014-05-27 - 2014-06-29
When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South queries the category of “outsider” art in relation to contemporary art and black life. Situating itself within current art historical and...More »
Glenn Kaino “19.83”
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2014-05-27 - 2014-06-29
On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony for the men’s 200-meter race at the Mexico City Olympic Games, American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised black-gloved fists as a symbolic act...More »
“Draped Down” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Fashion
- 2014-05-27 - 2014-06-29
Draped Down looks at both the implicit and explicit references to fashion in visual art. The title is adapted from a renaissance-era slang term meaning well-dressed; to be in the height of Harlem fashion....More »
“Harlem Postcards Spring 2014” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Graphics - Photography - Other
- 2014-05-27 - 2014-06-29
Harlem Postcards is an ongoing project that invites contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds to reflect on Harlem as a site of cultural activity, political vitality, visual stimuli, artistic contemplation...More »
“The Shadows Took Shape” Panel Discussion
[0] [0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2014-02-06 - 2014-02-06
Space may have been the place for jazz visionary Sun Ra, but there is another location that has often been excluded from discussions of Afrofuturism: the ocean. From the mythic, underwater world of Drexciya,...More »
Carrie Mae Weems “The Museum Series”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2014-01-30 - 2014-06-29
Carrie Mae Weems: The Museum Series presents an intimate look at an ongoing series that Weems began in 2006. The artist stands, with her back turned to the camera, in proximity to some of the world’s leading...More »
” Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2013-11-14 - 2014-03-09
Providing a critical history beginning with Fluxus and Conceptual art in the early 1960s through present-day practices, Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art chronicles the emergence...More »
“Harlem Postcards Fall/Winter 2013-14” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2013-11-14 - 2014-03-07
Harlem Postcards is an ongoing project that invites contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds to reflect on Harlem as a site of cultural activity, political vitality, visual stimuli, artistic contemplation...More »
“The Shadows Took Shape” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Media Arts
- 2013-11-14 - 2014-03-09
The Shadows Took Shape is a dynamic interdisciplinary exhibition exploring contemporary art through the lens of Afrofuturist aesthetics. Coined in 1994 by writer Mark Dery in his essay “Black to the Future,”...More »
“Body Language” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2013-07-18 - 2013-10-27
Body Language explores the body and written or verbal expression. Comprised mostly of works from the Studio Museum’s permanent collection, the exhibition shows how artists use language to evoke relationships...More »
Robert Pruitt “Women”
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Installation - Video installation
- 2013-07-18 - 2013-10-27
Robert Pruitt (b. 1975) is Houston-based artist well known for drawings, videos and installations dedicated to examination of the historical and contemporary experiences of African Americans. Robert Pruitt:...More »
“VideoStudio Long Takes” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation - Performance Art
- 2013-07-18 - 2013-10-27
Video Studio: Long Takes brings together work by two emerging artists: Simone Bailey (b. 1982; San Francisco, CA) and Janaye Brown (b. 1987; Austin, TX). VideoStudio is an ongoing series of exhibitions...More »
“Things in Themselves” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Installation
- 2013-07-18 - 2013-10-27
Things in Themselves presents the work of Steffani Jemison (b. 1981), Jennifer Packer (b. 1984) and Cullen Washington Jr. (b. 1972), the 2012–13 artists in residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Whether...More »
“No Filter Expanding the Walls 2013” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2013-07-18 - 2013-10-27
Expanding the Walls: Making Connections Between Photography, History and Community is an annual, eight-month program in which New York high school students explore the history and techniques of art and...More »
Fred Wilson “Local Color”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2013-03-28 - 2013-06-30
For the first time since its exhibition in 1993, the Studio Museum will be presenting conceptual artist Fred Wilson (b. 1954)’s installation Local Color, originally created for the Studio Museum exhibition...More »
Ayé A. Aton “Space-Time Continuum”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Installation
- 2013-03-28 - 2013-06-30
In the late 60s and early 70s Ayé A. Aton (b. 1940) painted murals in homes in both Chicago and his home state of Kentucky. A disciple of and frequent collaborator with composer, poet and Afrofuturist...More »
David Hartt “Stray Light”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Video installation
- 2013-03-28 - 2013-06-30
David Hartt: Stray Light presents color photographs, sculptures and a video installation by Chicago-based conceptual photographer David Hartt (b. 1967) reflecting on the iconic headquarters of the Johnson...More »
Mendi + Keith Obadike “American Cypher”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2013-03-28 - 2013-06-30
The Studio Museum presents a site-specific iteration of American Cypher, a suite of projects that respond to American stories about race and DNA by the intermedia artists Mendi and Keith Obadike (both...More »
“Assembly Required” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture
- 2013-03-28 - 2013-06-30
Assembly Required presents photographs, drawings, sculptures and paintings from the Studio Museum’s permanent collection that explore the ways in which certain works are dependent on site, and the viewer’s...More »
Gordon Parks “A Harlem Family 1967”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2012-11-11 - 2013-06-30
Gordon Parks: A Harlem Family 1967 honors the legacy and the work of late iconic artist and photojournalist Gordon Parks, who would have turned 100 on November 30, 2012. The exhibition, organized by Director...More »
"Illuminations: Expanding the Walls 2012" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2012-06-14 - 2012-10-21
Expanding the Walls: Making Connections Between Photography, History and Community is an annual, eight-month program in which New York high school students explore history and community through photography....More »
"Caribbean: Crossroads of the World" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2012-06-14 - 2012-10-21
The exhibition Caribbean: Crossroads of the World is the culmination of nearly a decade of collaborative research and scholarship organized by El Museo del Barrio in conjunction with the Queens Museum...More »
"Primary Sources: Artists in Residence 2011–12" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography
- 2012-06-14 - 2012-10-21
All three artists use appropriated source material and imagery, mediating and reinterpreting their initial contexts through painting and photography. A primary source is original documentation of a specific...More »
Ralph Lemon "1856 Cessna Road"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Video installation
- 2012-03-29 - 2012-05-27
Drawing from an eight-year project by New York-based movement artist Ralph Lemon (b. 1952, Cincinnati) in conjunction with Little Yazoo, Mississippi resident Walter Carter (1907–2010), 1856 Cessna Road...More »
"Shift: Projects | Perspectives | Directions" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Installation
- 2012-03-29 - 2012-05-27
Organized as a group of autonomous installations, Shift presents work in thematic groupings, series of works by individual artists and focused looks at single works of art. Drawn from the Studio Museum’s...More »
Rodney McMillian and Robin Rhode "VideoStudio"
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2011-11-10 - 2012-01-15
Rodney McMillian: Untitled (futon) November 10, 2011–January 15, 2012 Rodney McMillian’s (b. 1969) Untitled (futon)—shot in one static take, using lo-fi equipment—depicts the artist repeatedly stabbing...More »
Betye Saar "Collected. Ritual"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2011-11-10 - 2012-03-11
Collected. Ritual explores the performative and process-oriented aspects of making art and examines ritual as an act of special and sometimes mythical significance. The works in this exhibition were chosen...More »
Romare Bearden "The Bearden Project"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2011-11-10 - 2012-03-11
September 2, 2011, marked the centennial of the birth of Romare Bearden, and the beginning of a year of international celebration of this significant and singular artist. In tribute to Bearden, who was...More »
"Who, What, Wear Selections from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Other
- 2011-11-10 - 2012-05-27
Who, What, Wear: Selections from the Permanent Collection looks at evolutions in style—self-expression, fashion, artistic technique and societal ideals of beauty—as seen through the Studio Museum’s permanent...More »
Kira Lynn Harris "The Block | Bellona"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2011-11-10 - 2012-05-27
Kira Lynn Harris reimagines The Block (1971), Romare Bearden’s iconic, six-panel, eighteen-foot-long collage depicting life in Harlem. Bearden’s “block” is occupied by a church, a grocery store, a barbershop,...More »
Lyle Ashton Harris "Self/Portrait"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2011-07-14 - 2011-10-23
Lyle Ashton Harris: Self/Portrait brings together a group of large-format Polaroid photographs of the artist’s friends, family and community; artists, art collectors and patrons; and the artist himself....More »
"As It Is, As It Could Be" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Other
- 2011-07-14 - 2011-10-23
as it is, as it could be is the annual exhibition featuring the work of high school participants in the Expanding the Walls: Making Connections to Photography, History and Community program. Student photographs...More »
"Spiral" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2011-07-14 - 2011-10-23
Spiral: Perspectives on an African-American Art Collective presents works by members of the historic Spiral group, taking as its starting point a recent exhibition of the same name at the Birmingham Museum...More »
"Evidence of Accumulation Artists in Residence 2010-11" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Other - Ceramics - Video installation
- 2011-07-14 - 2011-10-23
Evidence of Accumulation presents the work of The Studio Museum in Harlem’s 2010–11 artists in residence: Simone Leigh, Kamau Amu Patton and Paul Mpagi Sepuya. Although there are few visual similarities...More »
"Harlem Postcards Fall/Winter 2010-11" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2010-11-11 - 2011-03-13
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye "Any Number of Preoccupations"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2010-11-11 - 2011-03-13
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Any Number of Preoccupations, organized by Associate Curator Naomi Beckwith will be British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s very first solo museum exhibition. Yiadom-Boakye (b. 1977,...More »
In Dawoud Bey "In Dawoud Bey’s Harlem, USA"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2010-11-11 - 2011-01-02
In Dawoud Bey’s Harlem, USA, the artist takes viewers on a journey through this historic neighborhood. As a young man growing up in Queens, Bey (b. 1953) was intrigued by his family’s history in Harlem....More »
Matana Roberts "StudioSound"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Other
- 2010-11-11 - 2011-03-13
Matana Roberts is an alto saxophonist, conceptual sound artist, composer and performer who explores the powerful and mystical roots of American musical expression. For nearly five years Roberts has developed...More »
Mark Bradford "Alphabet"
[0] [1]- Media: Painting - Other
- 2010-11-11 - 2011-03-13
Alphabet is a major new body of work that includes twenty-six individual works on paper produced over the last year, each depicting a single letter. Alphabet relates to Bradford’s ongoing merchant posters...More »
Leslie Hewitt in collaboration with Bradford Young "Untitled (Level)"
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2010-11-11 - 2011-01-02
Untitled (Level) (2010) is a dual-channel film installation by Leslie Hewitt (b. 1977) in collaboration with cinematographer Bradford Young (b. 1977). The film takes Manchild in the Promised Land, Claude...More »
VideoStudio "Changing Same"
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2010-11-11 - 2011-03-13
VideoStudio: Changing Same presents the work of four artists—Dineo Seshee Bopape, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Akosua Adoma Owusu and Cauleen Smith—in a series of onemonth programs, each focused on a single artist....More »
"Collected. Black & White" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography
- 2010-11-11 - 2011-01-02
Collected. Black & White brings together a selection of black-and-white photographs, paintings and works on paper from the Studio Museum’s permanent collection. Organized by Assistant Curator Lauren...More »
"The Production of Space" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Other - Sculpture
- 2010-11-11 - 2011-03-13
The Production of Space brings together works from the permanent collection that address the relationship between bodies and public spaces. Consisting primarily of conceptual photographs, The Production...More »
"Usable Pasts: 2009-10 Artists-in-Residence" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Installation - Video installation
- 2010-07-15 - 2010-10-24
In this year’s installment of the much anticipated "Artist-in-Residence" exhibition, Mequitta Ahuja (b. 1976), Lauren D. Kelley (b. 1975) and Valerie Piraino (b. 1981) display diverse projects in a range...More »
"Inside the Collection: Interiors from the Studio Museum" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2010-07-15 - 2010-10-24
Inside the Collection: Interiors from the Studio Museum features an intimate selection of photographs in the Museum’s holdings that focus on indoor scenes and spaces. Organized as a complement to "Zwelethu...More »
"Harlem Postcards" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2010-07-15 - 2010-10-24
Throughout the twentieth century, Harlem has been regarded as a beacon of African-American history and culture. Sites such as the Apollo Theater, Abyssinian Baptist Church, and Malcolm X Corner at 125th...More »
"Hi-Res: Expanding the Walls: Making Connections to Photography, History and Community" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2010-07-15 - 2010-10-24
"Hi-Res" is the annual exhibition featuring the work of high school participants in the "Expanding the Walls: Making Connections to Photography, History and Community" program. Student photographs will...More »
Zwelethu Mthethwa "Inner Views"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2010-07-15 - 2010-10-24
"Zwelethu Mthethwa: Inner Views" brings together three series by South African photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa (b. 1960). “Interiors” and “Empty Beds” document the domestic lives of migrant workers around...More »
"VidéoStudio: New Work from France" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Film - Video installation
- 2010-04-01 - 2010-06-27
In a trio of month-long programs, the Studio Museum presents the work of three North African artists—Yto Barrada, Bouchra Khalili and Djamel Kokene—who were born or currently live in France. While these...More »
"Harlem Postcards" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Other
- 2010-04-01 - 2010-06-27
Represented, revered, and recognized by people around the world, Harlem is a continually expanding nexus of black culture, history and iconography. Venerable landmarks, such as the Abyssinian Baptist Church,...More »
"Collected. Reflections on the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2010-04-01 - 2010-06-27
Collected. Reflections on the Permanent Collection offers a series of meditations on artworks entrusted to The Studio Museum in Harlem. Envisioned as eight exhibitions within an exhibition and featuring...More »
"No Place: A Ritual of the Empathics (2009)" Performance
[0] [0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2009-11-14 - 2009-11-14
No Place: A Ritual of the Empathics (2009), is a continuation of artist Saya Woolfalk’s investigation into a fictional future called No Place. Last summer, Woolfalk introduced us to the part plant part...More »
"Collected. Propositions on the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2009-11-12 - 2010-03-14
During our spring 2009 exhibition season, The Studio Museum in Harlem presented Collected. Propositions on the Permanent Collection. Collected offered multiple takes on the Museum’s collection and included...More »
Wardell Milan "Drawings of Harlem"
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing
- 2009-11-12 - 2010-03-14
A city within a city, Harlem is in a constant state of flux. It is hardedged. It is immediate. It is fantastical. It is real, hyper-real and hyperrealized. In counterbalance to this reality, Wardell Milan:...More »
"30 Seconds off an Inch" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture
- 2009-11-12 - 2010-03-14
The Studio Museum in Harlem will open the fall/winter season with a major exhibition entitled 30 Seconds off an Inch. This survey will bring together contemporary artworks by a group of artists who, having...More »
Daniel Bernard Roumain " StudioSound: DBR@SMH Volume II: Portraiture"
[0] [0]- Media: Media Arts
- 2009-11-12 - 2010-03-14
As the inaugural StudioSound artist in 2004, Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) created DBR@SMH Volume I: Black Man Singing, a classically inspired original composition based on the exhibition Chris Ofili: Afro-Muses...More »
"A Delicate Touch: Watercolors from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2009-11-12 - 2010-03-14
This season, the Studio Museum continues to explore and engage its permanent collection with the exhibition A Delicate Touch: Watercolors from the Permanent Collection. Presenting eighteen works on paper,...More »
"Harlem Postcards" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Other
- 2009-11-12 - 2010-03-14
Throughout the twentieth century, Harlem has been regarded as a beacon of African-American history and culture. Sites such as the Apollo Theater, Abyssinian Baptist Church, and Malcolm X Corner at 125th...More »
Hurvin Anderson "Peter's Series 2007-2009"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2009-07-16 - 2009-10-25
The Studio Museum in Harlem presents the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of the work of London-based artist Hurvin Anderson. Born in 1965 in Birmingham, United Kingdom to parents of Jamaican descent,...More »
"Studiosound: Dreaming in Sound" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2009-07-16 - 2009-10-25
The abstract ethereal beats from StudioSound artist Ramon Silva’s Dreaming in Sound are at once nostalgic and contemporary, evoking the languor and beauty of a remembered or imagined summertime. Electronically...More »
"Encodings" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography
- 2009-07-16 - 2009-10-29
The 2008–09 artists in residence, Khalif Kelly, Adam Pendleton and Dawit L. Petros, consider looking at an artwork akin to the act of reading. In his own way, each shows a deep concern with how images...More »
"Collection Imagined: Collected" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2009-07-16 - 2009-10-25
For Collection Imagined, inaugural artist Adam Pendleton (artist in residence 2008–09), used the titles of works in the permanent collection to create Collected (Flamingo George) (2009), installed on the...More »
"Expanding the Walls 2009: We Come with the Beautiful Things" Exhitbition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2009-07-16 - 2009-10-25
Expanding the Walls: Making Connections between Photography, History and Community is an annual, seven-month, photography-based program that uses the James VanDerZee (1886–1983) archive—housed at The Studio...More »
"Harlem Postcards" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2009-07-16 - 2009-10-25
Throughout the twentieth century, Harlem has been regarded as a beacon of African-American history and culture. Sites such as the Apollo Theater, Abyssinian Baptist Church, and Malcolm X Corner at 125th...More »
"Collected. Propositions on the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture
- 2009-04-02 - 2009-06-28
Collected. Propositions on the Permanent Collection presents fourteen takes on the permanent collection of The Studio Museum in Harlem. This set of exhibitions, which includes over two hundred works in...More »
Kalup Linzy "If it Don’t Fit"
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Video installation
- 2009-04-02 - 2009-06-28
Kalup Linzy: If it Don’t Fit is the first museum survey of the artist’s work, and includes approximately twenty videos made over the last seven years, a drawing suite and a one-night acoustic performance....More »
Shinique Smith "Like it Like that"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2009-04-02 - 2009-06-28
Multimedia artist, Shinique Smith, has activated the Studio Museum Project Space with Like it Like that, an installation designed specially for the gallery. A Frequency alum known for her practice spanning...More »
"Harlem Postcards: Spring 2009" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2009-04-02 - 2009-06-28
The Studio Museum’s ongoing series, Harlem Postcards, invites contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds to reflect on Harlem as a site for artistic contemplation and production. Represented, revered...More »
Barkley L. Hendricks "Birth of the Cool"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2008-11-12 - 2009-03-15
This fall, The Studio Museum in Harlem will be the second stop for the first career retrospective of renowned African-American painter Barkley L. Hendricks (b. 1945). Hendricks was born in Philadelphia,...More »
Kehinde Wiley "The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2008-07-16 - 2008-10-26
The exhibition, featuring paintings created during Wiley’s long-term travels in Nigeria and Senegal, is second in this series, for which Wiley temporarily relocates to different countries and opens satellite...More »
Charles Ethan Porter Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2008-04-02 - 2008-06-29
Charles Ethan Porter (c. 1847-1923) is under-recognized today but was revered in his own time by well-known contemporaries such as Henry Ossawa Tanner and Edmonia Lewis, who worked in a more popular, figurative...More »
"Flow" Exhibition
[0] [1]- Media: Painting
- 2008-04-02 - 2008-06-29
Flow is the first twenty-first century exhibition focusing on art by a new generation of international artists from Africa. These artists are uniquely conscious of, and responsive to, recent African history,...More »
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