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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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there is no one left to blame

Steve Locke
A life-size, hyper realistic bronze sculpture of a nude with long, thick hair in twists, lying on their side, propped up on one elbow with the other hand extended. The finish is a metallic green, except for blue fingernails and purple lipstick.

Juliana

Frank Benson
LOCKE_DYLANN (profile) Emanuel Nine Summer 2017

From the series #Killers

Steve Locke
A sculpture of a glass cube covered in a black metallic coating.

CUBE 27

Larry Bell
An installation of a polka-dotted neon colored tentacle-shaped arms that extend from the ceiling and floor of an enclosed mirrored room.

LOVE IS CALLING

Yayoi Kusama
A color photograph shows two Black women posing together in cluttered living space. One raises her zebra-print dress to expose a prosthetic leg. The other is in a floral swimsuit. Both have their hair pulled back and smile toward the viewer.

Barbara and Mother

Deana Lawson
A tinted photograph of the artist Mark Morrisroe, a light-skinned man with dark hair, lying in bed, taken from near the foot of the bed, with just his face peering over thick blankets that obscure his body.

Mark Morrisroe in Bed

Gail Thacker
A sculptural installation consisting of four pairs of black and brown pantyhose suspended from a pole spanning the corner of a room. The feet of the pantyhose are filled with sand.

R.S.V.P. Reverie–“B” Suite

Senga Nengudi
An oil painting of a slender, elegant, dark-skinned dancer standing in bright stage lights against with a yellow stage curtain behind them and a dark shadow at their right waiting to move.

The Much-Vaunted Air

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
A video still of a medium-skinned person with glasses and short hair, shown from the torso up, facing the viewer against a green background.

Profile

Candice Breitz
A sculpture mounted on the wall and composed of a cluster of colorful housedresses.

Phasing (Ebb)

Kevin Beasley
Two side-by-side video stills show artist Nari Ward from behind as he pushes a large, towering sculpture on wheels down a crowded street wearing a suit and hat.

Pushing Savior

Nari Ward
A sculpture made of various objects piled on top of a metal shopping cart, tightly wrapped and bound with twisted red and black plastic, culminating in a simple folding chair at the very top.

Savior

Nari Ward
A small ceramic sculpture comprises a shiny black base partially covered by a curling thin green layer and, to the far right, a vertical light purple leaf-like structure.

Faberge Leg

Ron Nagle
A sculpture of a large, wooden cabinet  with open glass doors displaying a variety of found objects including bottles and buoys.

New Bedford Cabinet

Mark Dion
A sculpture of several dozen identical green plaster casts of a woman’s head and torso arranged in rows in a rectangular, vertically-oriented architectural frieze.

Dr. Melissa Doft, Plastic Surgeon 1

Lucy Kim
A color photograph shows a pale older woman holding a dog and a plastic bag of various materials, standing next to a pale school-age boy in a red jacket and black patterned knit hat who smiles directly at the viewer.

Untitled, from the series Case History

Boris Mikhailov
A color photograph depicts a full portrait of a light-skinned man in dirty, ragged clothing standing in the open doors of a school bus as he looks directly at the viewer.

Discarded #5, Near Brawley, California

Anthony Hernandez
An elaborate mixed media installation occupying the corner of a white room and consisting of peeling white material, various yellow and orange materials, and a yellow metal tripod.

Hidden Relief

Sarah Sze
A black-and-white photograph of a person wearing a full-body costume of an antique press camera on a photo set with only their pale exposed legs visible.

Walking Camera (Jimmy the Camera / Gift to Jimmy from Laurie), from The Walking Series

Laurie Simmons
An oil painting depicts an abstracted scene of two children in colorful clothing playing on a sandy beach as an enormous dark wave filled with drowning figures approaches the shore.

Big Wave

Dana Schutz
A drawing in Conte crayon on butcher paper depicts a Black woman in a patterned dress and black sneakers with white stripes standing in profile, facing left. She holds a box cutter behind her back.

Woman with X-Patterned Dress (After Bill Traylor)

Robert Pruitt
A depicts a pixelated, colorful pink, blue, and brown collage of a framed painting overlaid with pink pixel-like geometric shapes and a Garfield cartoon panel.

Untitled

Laura Owens
A long narrow, horizontal painting with white clouds, blue and purple birds, and brushstrokes evenly distributed across the canvas.

Untitled

Laura Owens

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