Studio Museum in Harlem Appoints Ade Omotosho as Associate Curator

The Studio Museum in Harlem has appointed Ade Omotosho as Associate Curator. He will take up the role on 16 November 2026, reporting to Chief Program Officer Natasha Logan.

Omotosho will lead the long-term planning and oversight of the Museum’s permanent collection, which comprises approximately 9,000 objects by more than 800 artists, spanning the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries. His work will support the preservation, presentation and interpretation of works by artists of African descent.

A curator, writer and art historian from Dallas, Omotosho joins from the Dallas Museum of Art, where he served as Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art. He previously held curatorial positions at Pérez Art Museum Miami and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and participated in the Studio Museum’s Arts Leadership Praxis programme in 2025.

The appointment comes as the Museum approaches the first anniversary of its new purpose-built home, which opened on 15 November 2025. By the end of 2026, nearly 500 works from its permanent collection will have been displayed.

“From its inception, the Museum has championed the range of practices of artists of African descent, supplying a way of seeing that remains vital and necessary in our cultural landscape,” Omotosho said.

Omotosho holds degrees in art history from the University of Texas at Austin and the Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art. His writing has appeared in exhibition catalogues for the Studio Museum, the 2024 Venice Biennale, Made in LA 2023 and Prospect.5.

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