CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/22/2026

‘Tom Lloyd’ closes at Studio Museum this week

Featured image, of Tom Lloyd on the opening night of his solo show Electronic Refractions II—the inaugural exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, 1968—is from Tom Lloyd, the exhibition catalog to the museum’s current exhibition, which closes March 22 to great critical acclaim. “An early pioneer of using electric light as an artistic medium, Tom Lloyd devel¬oped a highly experimental and technologically advanced art practice in the 1960s that set him apart from many of his fellow artists,” curator Connie H. Choi writes. “Employing a purposely limited but defined vocabulary of colors, forms, and shapes, Lloyd challenged not only understandings of art at the time but, perhaps more important, the definition of art made by Black artists. He thereby promoted a relationship between abstraction and blackness that was greatly debated during the 1960s, and one that continues to animate conversations around artistic practices.”