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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

Filter
An oil painting of nude, buxom, light-skinned blonde woman standing against a pastel background.

Motherfucking Rock

Lisa Yuskavage
A black-and-white photograph of a woman leaning her head against a wall, holding a fish spine in front of her own exposed back.

Untitled, New York

Francesca Woodman
A color photograph of the corner of an empty room with a gold mirror, pink curtains, and decorative pink wallpaper.

Aunt Anna’s House—Stripped: The Pink Study

Shellburne Thurber
A drawing in brown, blue, red, and black gouache and ink depicts a two-headed, two-legged female figure, blurry as if in movement, with blood spewing from the foreheads, mouths, breasts, and genital areas.

Female Bomb

Nancy Spero
A brown watercolor depicting a dark, shaded scene of a small nude figure holding an infant above their head.

Birth

Nancy Spero
A dark red wall sculpture of a lumpy ball form connected by a coiled and looped string to a disembodied forearm and hand.

From Heart to Hand

Kiki Smith
Two black-and-white photographs with black backgrounds, one of a section of dark, curly hair with a placard reading “identify” and one a portrait of a  Black woman in a scoop-neck black top shown from the back with a placard reading “identity” affixed to the bare skin of her upper back.

ID

Lorna Simpson
An oil painting of abstracted views of two landscapes stacked on top of one another and separated by a sky-blue band.

Unearth

Amy Sillman
A color photograph of artist Cindy Sherman, a white woman, posed as Marilyn Monroe with blond hair and parted red lips, seated on the floor in jeans, boots, and a pale blouse.

Untitled

Cindy Sherman
A black-and-white photograph of the artist in a dress, dark coat, dark ankle boots, and hair in a 1960s hairstyle, posed on an empty stairwell lined with tall concrete pillars and glass.

Untitled Film Still #63

Cindy Sherman
A black-and-white photograph of the artist on a very dark urban street, with blond hair and a dress skirt and blouse under a trench coat that she pulls closed around her neck.

Untitled Film Still #54

Cindy Sherman
A black-and-white photograph of the artist with blond hair, a white blouse, and a calf-length plaid skirt standing on the side of an open road in a hilly evening landscape, her back turned to the viewer and a suitcase by her side on the ground.

Untitled Film Still #48

Cindy Sherman
A black-and-white photograph of the artist, a white woman, posed on the empty outdoor platform of the Flagstaff train station and captured from across the tracks under a partly cloudy sky.

Untitled Film Still #44

Cindy Sherman
An oil painting of two figures embraced in an erotic, intimate position, shown from above. The figure on top is painted bright green with blue hair; the figure on the bottom is painted pink, tan, and dark grey.

Green Heart

Joan Semmel
An oil painting of a young blonde figure against a lime green background sneezing into their open hands with visible expulsion and expressive brushstrokes illustrating the forcefulness of the sneeze.

Sneeze

Dana Schutz
A sculpture consisting of a wooden armoire filled with smoothly finished grey-white concrete.

Untitled

Doris Salcedo
A sculpture consisting of a wooden chair almost completely within an unfinished block of cement and rebar.

Untitled

Doris Salcedo
An installation of women's shoes embedded in five narrow cavities in a white wall covered by a translucent, tinted skins.

Atrabiliarios

Doris Salcedo
A sculpture of thin, wispy gold wire loosely shaped into two wedding ring shapes.

Wedding Ring Drawing (Circumference of a Living Room)

Cornelia Parker
A suspended sculpture of charred, broken pieces of charcoal arranged densely at the bottom and sparsely at the top, as though rising from ashes.

Hanging Fire (Suspected Arson)

Cornelia Parker
Two long horizontal oil paintings on wood hang one below the other. The top depicts a sunset over water, the bottom an underwater scene of an orange fish. Each scene is disrupted by a solid red rectangle, and each painting is draped with green fabric along the top edge.

Regional Piece

Ree Morton
Six color photographs in two rows of three show a figure rendered in various ways including as a line drawing in dirt, in blood or red pigment on cloth and in sand, and in sticks in an architectural hollow.

Silueta Works in Mexico

Ana Mendieta
A color photograph depicts two labels tacked to the wall alongside a sheet of Andy Warhol's "70 S & H Green Stamps." The text “Mo Tu We Th Fr” spans the bottom margin.

Untitled

Louise Lawler
A sculpture depicts a rectangular white pole leaning against a white wall with black text reading, "I'm nobody! Who are you?" vertically down one side.

Key and Cue, No. 288

Roni Horn

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