# The Studio Museum in Harlem Museum in Harlem, New York City, one of On View's top museums there. - Address: 144 West 125th Street, New York, NY 10027 - Hours: Wed–Sun 11–6, Fri to 9 - Website: https://www.studiomuseum.org - Instagram: [@studiomuseum](https://www.instagram.com/studiomuseum/) - Directions: - On the map: https://onview.so/manhattan/map/the-studio-museum-in-harlem ## Exhibitions ### *Tone* Group exhibition · Sep 30, 2026 – Jan 3, 2027 · on view Roy DeCarava, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Lorna Simpson and others Drawings, paintings, photographs and sculpture by nineteen artists who build images through black-and-white tonal gradation rather than line. Drawn from the museum’s collection, the show gathers drawings, paintings, photographs and sculpture by nineteen artists, among them Roy DeCarava, Gordon Parks, Ming Smith, Lorna Simpson, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. What links them is a reliance on the scale of grays between black and white, rather than line, to give an image its form and rhythm, a principle the show traces back to the earliest surviving photograph, Nicéphore Niépce’s View from the Window Le Gras (1826–27). It is organized by Jayson Overby Jr. Full details: [studiomuseum.org](https://www.studiomuseum.org/exhibitions/tone) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-studio-museum-in-harlem/tone ### Mark Bradford: *Untitled (A–Z), 2010* Through Jan 3, 2027 · on view Twenty-six works on paper, each a single sanded-down letter cut from layered local advertising posters. The twenty-six sheets grow out of Bradford’s ongoing “merchant posters” project, in which he gathers local business flyers from his South Los Angeles neighborhood. Layering and sanding the posters—some bearing phrases like “Stop Evictions” and “Affordable Daycare”—he abstracts them down to fragments, isolating one letter of the alphabet in each work so the text becomes symbol rather than message, pointing to the economic pressures on the community the materials came from. The show is organized by associate curator Yelena Keller. Full details: [studiomuseum.org](https://www.studiomuseum.org/exhibitions/mark-brad) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-studio-museum-in-harlem/untitled-a-z-2010 ### *A sustained becoming: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2026* Group exhibition · Sep 30, 2026 – Jan 3, 2027 · on view Derriann Pharr, Simonette Quamina and Taylor Simmons Paintings, collages, prints, drawings and sculpture by the museum’s 2026 artists in residence, the first cohort to work in its new building. The museum’s 2026 artists in residence, Derriann Pharr, Simonette Quamina and Taylor Simmons, are the first cohort to work in its new building. Each takes a different route into figuration, across painting, collage, printmaking, drawing, sculpture and mixed media. Their pictures blend the everyday with the imagined, much like memory or dreams, and draw on shared cultural history. The show is organized by assistant curator Adria Gunter. Full details: [studiomuseum.org](https://www.studiomuseum.org/exhibitions/a-sustained-becoming-studio-museum-artists-in-residence-2026) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-studio-museum-in-harlem/a-sustained-becoming-studio-museum-artists-in-residence-2026 ### *Through Motion and Repose: Expanding the Walls 2026* Group exhibition · Jul 1, 2026 – Jan 31, 2027 · on view Agnes Baidoo, Angel Torres, Christopher Soriano and others Street scenes and intimate home photographs by seventeen teenagers from the museum’s Expanding the Walls program. The show gathers photographs by the seventeen teenage participants in this year’s cohort of Expanding the Walls, the museum’s long-running program connecting photography, history, and community. Working close to their subjects, the young photographers record familiar objects, places, and loved ones at home, while others use blur and soft focus to capture the motion of New York City streets and subways. An accompanying online exhibition adds further photographs and information about each artist. The show was organized by the museum’s curatorial fellows together with the program’s 2026 participants. Full details: [studiomuseum.org](https://www.studiomuseum.org/exhibitions/through-motion-and-repose-expanding-the-walls-2026) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-studio-museum-in-harlem/through-motion-and-repose-expanding-the-walls-2026 ### *Geometries* Group exhibition · Sep 10, 2026 – Feb 7, 2027 · on view Julie Mehretu, Jack Whitten, Alma Thomas and others Works from the museum’s collection by thirty artists who build abstract and figurative images from lines, shapes and grids. Organized by Thelma Golden and Simon Ghebreyesus, the show treats geometry as a shared visual language, drawing on Western abstraction, African textile and design traditions, and everyday patterns like city grids and flowerheads. Works range from rigorous geometric abstraction to figuration built from basic shapes, as artists work through questions of perception, identity and representation. Among the thirty artists are Norman Lewis, Al Loving, Alma Thomas, Jack Whitten, Julie Mehretu, Stanley Whitney, McArthur Binion and Torkwase Dyson. Full details: [studiomuseum.org](https://www.studiomuseum.org/exhibitions/geometries) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-studio-museum-in-harlem/geometries ### *Dreams of This Future: The Collection of Peggy Cooper Cafritz* Group exhibition · Aug 19, 2026 – Feb 28, 2027 · on view Kerry James Marshall, Simone Leigh, Wangechi Mutu and others Paintings, photographs, sculptures, textiles and works on paper by artists of African descent, drawn from Peggy Cooper Cafritz’s bequeathed collection. Peggy Cooper Cafritz (1947–2018), a patron, educator and civil rights activist, left most of her art to the Studio Museum and the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, which she cofounded. The first show about her as a collector draws on her gift of more than four hundred works by over two hundred artists. She built two collections, the first largely destroyed by fire in 2009, and backed artists of African descent early in their careers. Artists include Kerry James Marshall, Simone Leigh, Wangechi Mutu, Deana Lawson and Nick Cave. Full details: [studiomuseum.org](https://www.studiomuseum.org/exhibitions/dreams-of-this-future-the-collection-of-peggy-cooper-cafritz) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-studio-museum-in-harlem/dreams-of-this-future-the-collection-of-peggy-cooper-cafritz ### Kapwani Kiwanga: *BLEED* Mar 11, 2026 – Apr 1, 2027 · on view · Second-floor project gallery A site-specific work in naturally dyed fabric, reworking a quilt pattern said to have guided people north on the Underground Railroad. Kiwanga turns the “flying geese” quilt motif into black, blue and crimson waves using three natural dyes. Pigment oxidized with Atlantic seawater recalls the transatlantic trade; pokeberries recall Delphy, an enslaved woman accused in 1816 of poisoning her enslaver with them; and indigo, grown on Southern plantations through the forced labor of enslaved people, speaks to ancestral ties to the land. The dyes are fugitive, so the colors shift over the year-long installation in the museum’s second-floor project gallery. Full details: [studiomuseum.org](https://www.studiomuseum.org/exhibitions/kapwani-kiwanga-bleed) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-studio-museum-in-harlem/bleed --- On View's listing, as of Tuesday, October 13, 2026. Every gallery and museum in New York City: https://onview.so/manhattan.md. All of On View: https://onview.so/llms.txt