Lorraine O’Grady’s landmark series Art Is… (1983/2009) is featured in the forthcoming publication Meaning Matter Memory: Selections from the Studio Museum in Harlem Collection, by Thelma Golden, Connie H. Choi, Mary Schmidt Campbell, Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Lowery Stokes Sims, et al., and published by Phaidon.
This highly anticipated volume offers a sweeping survey of the Studio Museum’s extraordinary collection of art by artists of African descent. With more than 250 illustrations and contributions from over 100 voices in the art world, Meaning Matter Memory celebrates the depth, breadth, and ongoing legacy of Black artistic achievement over the past two centuries.
Meaning Matter Memory will be released on October 8, 2025, and is now available for pre-order in the link below.
August 19, 2025
