Fictions at Studio Museum in Harlem

Karolina Sotomayor
13 oct 2017
1 Min. de lectura

Throughout the years, the Studio Museum in Harlem has become a hub for exhibitions that create narratives and dialogues around artists of African descent. The permanent collection of the museum has 2,220 works of art by more than 400 different artists as well as a program of Artists Residencies, which involves the exhibition of participant's works in their galleries in Harlem. With an ever-expanding and inclusive strategy, it presents Fictions, a exhibition that celebrates the works of nineteen artists of African descent working across the United States.

The works on display vary in medium and tackle issues of representation, gender, race and class. Fictions is part of a series of five exhibitions hosted at the Studio Museum since 2001 and it elevates the complexity behind these emerging artists' works in sometimes deeply personal and unconventional ways.

As always, it is refreshing to experience the works by the artists featured within an appropriate context. The Studio Museum in Harlem, from its conception in 1968, has been committed to creating a dialogue and forging academic discourses around the art of underrepresented communities in New York and the United States.

Today more than ever, exhibitions such as Fictions reinforce the notion of equality, of acceptance and understanding amongst cultures, races and nationalities. The concepts brought to light by the artists in this exhibition speak of their everyday realities, the realities we fail to challenge and notions we have failed to question.

Take a moment to scroll through the gallery of our favorite pieces below!