The Harlem Museum Built Around African Diaspora Artists
Work by artists of African descent fills this Harlem institution, founded on West 125th Street in 1968.
🖼️ On the walls
The Studio Museum in Harlem anchors West 125th Street with a program built around artists of African descent, a commitment it has held from its 1968 founding. Its long-running artist-in-residence program gives emerging painters and sculptors studio space, and those residencies feed directly into the rotating exhibitions on view. Galleries move between contemporary painting, photography, and sculpture rather than a fixed permanent hang. The collection reaches back to Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence while making room for names still early in their careers. Plan an hour, and pair the visit with the shops and cafes along the 125th Street corridor.
