Studio Magazine

Studio magazine is a leading art publication with a focus on contemporary artists of African descent. In its second decade, Studio continues to celebrate artists and inform audiences through thought-provoking essays, insightful conversations,
and more.

New Additions: Tunji Adeniyi-Jones

New Additions is a series of interviews with artists whose work was newly acquired in the Studio Museum's permanent collection. This inaugural conversation features artist Tunji Adeniyi-Jones in discussion of his work A Flashy Encounter.

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Artist in Residence View All

Wherever my people is at, that’s where my studio is <3

2021–22 artist in residence Cameron Granger discusses community, architecture, and memory. 

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Ideal Selfie

2021–22 artist in residence Qualeasha Wood discusses textiles, the haven of the internet, and iconographies of the self. 

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See for Yourself

2021–22 artist in residence Jacob Mason-Macklin on Harlem light, looking closely, and "grace in existing as you are."

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Invisible to Whom? View All

Invisible to Whom?:
Poetic Responses to Invisible Man
Soldier in Crisis

In celebration of the seventieth anniversary of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and Cave Canem commissi

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Invisible to Whom?:
Poetic Responses to Invisible Man
Trans Study: Invisible Man (2003)

In celebration of the seventieth anniversary of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and Cave Canem commissi

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Invisible to Whom?:
Poetic Responses to Invisible Man

Black Bird


In celebration of the seventieth anniversary of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and Cave Canem commissioned

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Conversations & Interviews View All

New Additions: Tunji Adeniyi-Jones

New Additions is a series of interviews with artists whose work was newly acquired in the Studio Museum's permanent collection. This inaugural conversation features artist Tun

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In Conversation: William T. Williams, Melvin Edwards, Ashley James, and Guy Ciarcia

Read an exclusive excerpt from the publication Smokehouse Associates, in which the artist collective speaks with curator Ashley James.

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Can Jam Be Jam at MoMA?

Read an exclusive excerpt from the exhibition catalogue Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces about the desire to create a Black cultural "home."
 

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Echoes: A Collaborative Abolitionist Curriculum in Four Chapters View All

Echoes: A Collaborative Abolitionist Curriculum
Chapter One: Haunting

"Echoes" was a collaboration from 2021 to 2022 between the Studio Museum and The Fortune Society. It grew directly out of group conversations with Fortune community members and highlights their voices as well as the voices of formerly incarcerated individuals beyond Harlem. 

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Echoes: A Collaborative Abolitionist Curriculum
Chapter Two: Invitation

"Echoes" was a collaboration from 2021 to 2022 between the Studio Museum and The Fortune Society. It grew directly out of group conversations with Fortune community members and highlights their voices as well as the voices of formerly incarcerated individuals beyond Harlem. 

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Echoes: A Collaborative Abolitionist Curriculum in Four Chapters
Chapter Three: Wisdom

"Echoes" was a collaboration from 2021 to 2022 between the Studio Museum and The Fortune Society. It grew directly out of group conversations with Fortune community members and highlights their voices as well as the voices of formerly incarcerated individuals beyond Harlem. 

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