News
The Studio Museum in Harlem Announces 2020-21 Artists in Residence
Posted September 10, 2020 · Amanda Thomas, TSM Press
WIDLINE CADET, GENESIS JEREZ, TEXAS ISAIAH, AND JACOLBY SATTERWHITE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE STUDIO MUSEUM’S SIGNATURE PROGRAM
Annual Exhibition for the 2019–20 Cohort to be Presented at MoMA PS1 in December 2020
NEW YORK, NY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2020— The Studio Museum in Harlem today announced the 2020–21 participants in its renowned Artist-in-Residence program, known for its catalytic role in advancing the work and launching the careers of more than two generations of outstanding artists of African and Afro-Latinx descent. From October 2020 through September 2021, Widline Cadet, Genesis Jerez, Texas Isaiah, and Jacolby Satterwhite will receive institutional and material support from the Studio Museum.
A departure from the standard form of the program, this year a mid-career artist, Jacolby Satterwhite, will participate in the residency, which, for the last decade, has focused on artists in the early stage of their professional lives. This new pilot—a mid-career mentorship component of the residency—is intended to support and recognize an artist with greater experience whose work demonstrates exceptional promise and merit.
Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of the Studio Museum, said, “We’re thrilled that Texas Isaiah, Genesis Jerez, Widline Cadet, and Jacolby Satterwhite are now joining the distinguished roster of our Artists in Residence. This is a defining program for us—the one that put ‘Studio’ in our institution’s name—and its remarkable impact has long been a source of deep pride for us. We welcome our new cohort at this critical moment for the program, the Museum, and the art world in general, as we expand our definition of studio work, rethink the ways in which we can support artists, and in these challenging times advance our mission as the nexus for artists of African descent.”
Legacy Russell, Associate Curator, Exhibitions, at the Studio Museum, said, “In the face of a challenging, historical, and most seismic period of global transition, Texas Isaiah, Genesis Jerez, Widline Cadet, and Jacolby Satterwhite set forward new and radical propositions of Afro-diasporic futures and world-building, advancing urgent explorations of visibility, figural representation, and refusal in new directions and to monumental heights in a moment that demands it."
This cycle of the program will be the first in which the Artists in Residence will participate digitally, ensuring the health and safety of all artists and staff. As in past years, the 2020–21 cycle of the Artist-in-Residence program will provide institutional guidance and professional development; facilitate studio visits with the Museum's curatorial team; and provide research support for the artists even as they work at a distance from one another.
FALL EXHIBITION FOR 2019–20 ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
This Longing Vessel: Studio Museum Artist in Residence 2019–20
Opening December 10, 2020
MoMA PS1
In the second year of a multi-part collaboration, The Studio Museum in Harlem will present its annual Artist-in-Residence exhibition at MoMA PS1. This Longing Vessel will feature new work by the 2019–20 cohort of the Studio Museum’s foundational residency program, artists E. Jane (b. 1990, Bethesda, MD), Naudline Pierre (b. 1989, Leominster, MA), and Elliot Reed (b. 1992, Milwaukee, WI). With practices spanning new media, performance, and painting, this collaborative exhibition enacts a radical intimacy: a “vessel” to hold and be held as we stand within the museum space. In “longing,” the works shown here find the intersection between queerness and blackness as a waypoint: one to yearn from, to reach toward, to leap beyond. This Longing Vessel troubles and excites ways of seeing, seeking new language for the building of extraordinary futures.
The exhibition is organized by Legacy Russell, Associate Curator, Exhibitions, Studio Museum, with Yelena Keller, Curatorial Assistant, Exhibitions, Studio Museum, and Josephine Graf, Curatorial Assistant, MoMA PS1. Exhibition research is provided by Makayla Bailey, Studio Museum, and MoMA Curatorial Fellow. The exhibition at MoMA PS1 is made possible by generous support from the Tom Slaughter Exhibition Fund and the MoMA PS1 Annual Exhibition Fund.
CURRENT AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Projects: Garrett Bradley
Opening November 21, 2020
The Museum of Modern Art
As part of the exciting multiyear partnership with The Museum of Modern Art, Projects: Garrett Bradley will open on November 21st, as the second installation of Studio Museum at MoMA, The Elaine Dannheisser Project Series. Organized by Thelma Golden with Legacy Russell and organized in collaboration with MoMA, Projects presents America (2019), by artist and filmmaker Garrett Bradley. This film imagines black figures from the early decades of the twentieth century whose lives have been lost to history. A multi-channel video installation, it is organized around twelve short black-and-white films shot by Bradley and set to a score by artist Trevor Mathison and composer Udit Duseja. Bradley intersperses her films with footage from Lime Kiln Club Field Day (1914), an unreleased film believed to be the oldest surviving feature-length film with an all-black cast.
Bradley’s evocative vignettes cite historical events, ranging from African American composer and singer Harry T. Burleigh’s publication of the spiritual “Deep River” in 1917, to the murder of popular jazz bandleader James Reese Europe in 1919, to the founding of baseball’s Negro National League in 1920. By including borrowed footage from Lime Kiln Club Field Day, she also shines a light on a film that was radically progressive for its time in its celebration of black intimacy, vernacular movement, and expression. “I see America as a model for how... the assembly of images can serve as an archive of the past as well as a document of the present,” Bradley has said.
Chloë Bass: Wayfinding
On view through September 27, 2020
St. Nicholas Park, Harlem
Chloë Bass: Wayfinding is the conceptual artist’s first institutional solo exhibition. The monumental commission, which opened in September 2019, is situated in Harlem’s St. Nicholas Park and features twenty-four site-specific sculptures that echo the structural and visual language of public wayfinding signage. The artist poses three central questions: How much of care is patience? How much of life is coping? How much of love is attention?
These questions, along with images and other texts by the artist, are positioned as wayfinding signage along various pathways throughout St. Nicholas Park. The artist seeks to encourage moments of private reflection in public space and invites visitors to explore the park spurred by these gentle sculptural interventions. In posing these questions, the artist seeks to build a bridge between internal thought and external social and political dialogue. Sited throughout the park at varying scales, Bass’s statements and images consider familial intimacy, desire, anxiety, and loss. This questioning is amplified by the artist’s audio guide, which carries listeners through sharply composed vignettes that grapple with notions of site, memory, belonging, joy, and risk.
The billboards that anchor Wayfinding mirror Harlem as it transforms over time, reflecting what Bass observes as “gentrification and the quiet force it enacts” on a city in constant flux. Across the landscape of St. Nicholas Park, the artist carries the viewer on a journey through the self and toward a collective consciousness. Wayfinding makes space to be lost and found, in a vulnerable interrogation of the known and unknown. In the artist’s words, “You’ll have to trust me when I say that many of the things I appear to know most deeply, I feel I know by accident.”
Chloë Bass: Wayfinding is organized by Legacy Russell, Associate Curator, Exhibitions, and is an inHarlem project, presented by The Studio Museum in Harlem in partnership with St. Nicholas Park and NYC Parks.
Copyright © 2006-2024, Harlem One Stop, Inc.
Website developed and made possible by a gift from