The Studio Museum in Harlem named its three artists selected for its 2026–2027 Artist-in-Residence program. Turiya Adkins, Timothy Yanick Hunter, and Clifford Prince King will be the second cohort to be in residency in the museum’s new purpose-built home on 125th Street.
The residency runs from November 2026 through October 2027 and gives emerging artists of African and Afro-Latinx descent material support, workspace, and professional guidance to develop their practice. It culminates in a public exhibition at the museum and an exhibition publication. The program has fostered more than 150 artists, including Lauren Halsey, David Hammons, Wangechi Mutu, Julie Mehretu, Kerry James Marshall, and Jordan Casteel.
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“Our Artist-in-Residence program has served as the essence of this institution’s mission since our founding,” Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum, said in a press release. “It embodies our commitment to ensuring early-career artists of African descent are supported and nourished, and exemplifies our work to bring artists together with the Harlem community. I am thrilled that this cohort’s three outstanding artists, Turiya Adkins, Timothy Yanick Hunter, and Clifford Prince King, will be with us during this year.”
Adkins, a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist, uses drawing, painting, and printmaking to construct abstract visual worlds that investigate mythology within Black worldmaking. She has shown her work at Hannah Traore Gallery, New York; Frieze Cork Street, London; and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
The Toronto-based Hunter uses research, recording, and sampling methodologies to explore the experiential and aesthetic dimensions of the Black diaspora, referencing historical photographs, museum archives, and obscure internet ephemera alongside music and spoken recordings. He was included in the 2022 Toronto Biennial of Art and was longlisted for the 2024 Sobey Art Award. His work is in the permanent collections of the Studio Museum in Harlem and the National Gallery of Canada.
King is a photographer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. His images depict composed interiors and landscapes shaped by natural light, personal objects, and moments of vulnerability, emphasizing the social and historical realities of race, sexuality, and desire. The Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum in Long Beach, CA, mounted his first solo institutional exhibition in 2023; his second solo museum exhibition will open at MoCA Tucson in Arizona in October. In 2023, King was commissioned by Public Art Fund to produce a series of photographs that were displayed on bus shelters and newsstands across New York, Chicago, and Boston.