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A video still of a green skyline with the silhouettes of flying birds and a telephone line projected onto the floor.

Paul Chan, 1st Light, 2005. Projected digital animation (color, silent; 14:00 minutes). Gift of Kimberly and James Pallotta. Courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali. Photo by Jean Vong. © Paul Chan

ICA Collection

Established in 2006, the ICAʼs permanent collection offers a diverse overview of national and international artworks in a range of media. Here you can find in-depth information about each object.

Included in the collection is The Barbara Lee Collection of Art by Women, encompassing 68 major works of 20th- and 21st-century art.

The Barbara Lee Collection of Art by Women

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A reddish watercolor drawing of a nude woman pictured from the side reaching upwards and looking over her shoulder.

German Witch

Marlene Dumas
A black-and-white print of rubber band loops organized to form a matrix.

Untitled (Rubber Bands)

Tara Donovan
A sculpture of a low white form composed of looped Scotch tape extending across a cement floor.

Nebulous

Tara Donovan
A color photograph of a tanned and dirty young boy with blond hair wearing only shorts and  clutching two unclothed dolls against his bare chest.

Odessa, Ukraine, August 11, 1993

Rineke Dijkstra
A color photograph of a young, light-skinned man sitting in front of a sign that reads "DEL TACO DRIVE THRU."

Ralph Smith; 21 years old; Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; $25

Philip-Lorca diCorcia
A color photograph of a light-skinned man in a suit walking along an urban street.

London

Philip-Lorca diCorcia
A color photograph of a middle-aged with pale skin, dark hair, and glasses holding a plastic bag containing a goldfish in water on the New York City subway.

Igor

Philip-Lorca diCorcia
A rectilinear wooden sculpture composed of horizontal and vertical planks.

Untitled

Taylor Davis
A color photograph of two light-skinned hands holding a book open to an ocean view.

Open Book #3 (Island Wilderness), from the series Open Book

Anne Collier
A video still of a green skyline with the silhouettes of flying birds and a telephone line projected onto the floor.

1st Light

Paul Chan
A watercolor of a medium-skinned, juggling woman in a long red dress balancing a potted tree overlaying a matrix of dotted lines.

Untitled, from the series Bed of My Own Making

Ambreen Butt
A watercolor of a five-headed hydra eating avatars of the artist surrounded by other avatars.

Multiplicité (AB95), from the series Cirque du Monde

Ambreen Butt
A watercolor of a medium-skinned woman tethered to a small shrub with her hair overlaying a dotted grid.

Untitled, from the series Bed of My Own Making

Ambreen Butt
A porcelain sculpture of a symmetrical, drooping form resembling a pelvis or two opposing phalluses suspended from a wire at the center.

Janus

Louise Bourgeois
A print of a moonlit landscape of pink, orange, and red hills on lined music paper.

Beautiful Night

Louise Bourgeois
A sculpture of two marble arms resting on a marble block surrounded by six connected metal door panels with openings and small mirrors.

Cell (Hands and Mirror)

Louise Bourgeois
A video still of a stack of sugar cubes covered in dark oil on a silver plate.

Oil and Sugar #2

Kader Attia
A painting on striped fabric of a skateboarder in midair against a red-orange field.

Untitled

Kai Althoff
A color photograph shows a soapy back with black hair swirled to resemble the Impressionist style brushwork in Vincent Van Gogh's paintings.

Van Gogh’s Back

Mona Hatoum
A sculpture of two glazed white teacups on matching saucers. The cups are fused together to appear conjoined, as are the saucers.

T42

Mona Hatoum
A rectangular floor sculpture of white silicone rubber twisted to appear like intestines and presented on a shiny silver mat.

Rubber Mat

Mona Hatoum
A sculpture of upright stainless-steel pins packed tightly onto a rectangular canvas on the floor, resembling a black rug.

Pin Rug

Mona Hatoum
A sculpture comprising an Edwardian wooden cabinet filled with colorful Murano glass grenades that resemble decorative fruit.

Natura Morta (Edwardian Vitrine)

Mona Hatoum
A sculpture made of a black steel tread plate shaped to form a long chaise.

Dormeuse

Mona Hatoum

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