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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
A color photograph shows a collage of a woman’s face with light projected on it and four white line drawings of an insect, flora, and airplanes in the four corners.

With My Hands I Give ECSTASY

Nalini Malani
A color photograph shows a collage of three figures: a standing human figure, the projected face of a woman in a headscarf gazing directly at the viewer, and a human skull.

When the Living Can No Longer Fight—the Dead Will

Nalini Malani
A color photograph shows a collage of three figures in white in various poses overlaying an enlarged image of a woman's face projected with light and directly facing the viewer.

The Two Americas—That Is I

Nalini Malani
A color photograph shows a collage of several children and embryonic shapes in white against an outline of a human brain and a projected image of a woman's mouth and nose in tight close up.

The Rebellion of the Dead Will Be the War of the Landscapes

Nalini Malani
A color photograph shows a collage of three standing figures in white to the right of a larger human face shrouded in a cloth printed with a blue and green world map.

My Speech Is Silence, My Song the Scream of the World

Nalini Malani
A color photograph shows a collage of two white figures crouching together holding long sticks in the bottom left of a horizontal image with the face of a woman overlaid with the projection of a world map in the center background.

My Hope Is the Last Breath. My Hope Is the First Battle

Nalini Malani
A color photograph shows a collage of three standing figures in white to the left of a larger human face shrouded in a cloth printed with a blue and green world map.

I—That Is Africa I—That Is Asia

Nalini Malani
A color photograph depicts a collaged scene of two x-rayed figures on either side of a white outline of a human brain, all is superimposed over a color image of the back of a woman.

I Am the Angel of Despair

Nalini Malani
A still from an animated drawing showing black outlines of assorted abstracted figures in an active, dynamic scene resembling a parade or circular gathering.

Penelope

Nalini Malani
An oil painting depicts a man seated in a subway car holding the subway pole in his left hand and embracing a white dog with a red cone around its head in his right hand.

Violet

Sanya Kantarovsky
A color photograph depicts two open books and one closed book with illusionistic square holes painted on their surfaces and laid on top of creased paper supports to appear as though a still life in a flat or two-dimensional plane.

Petals and Interleaves

John Houck
An entirely red oil painting depicts two documents side by side with typed text, hand-written notes, and censored notations.

Enclosure (Deep Red)

Jenny Holzer
A large-scale, colorful sculpture of bronze and steel resembling a tree or flower.

Trace

Nancy Graves
An embroidered square textile composed of a grid of bold, colorful letters.

Oggi il settimo giorno del settimo mese dell’anno millenovecento ottantotto…per Giampaolo Prearo editore (Today on the Seventh Day of the Seventh Month of the Year Nineteen Hundred Eighty-Eight…for Giampaolo Prearo Editor)

Alighiero e Boetti
An all-white painting of bust-length silhouettes that fills the entire space to form a crowd.

Crowd

Sadie Benning
An acrylic painting shows a Black man and two younger Black figures standing one behind the other against a bright pink background and looking directly at the viewer.

i’m yours

Henry Taylor
A spherical sculpture made of golden artificial straw and decorated with straw ornaments and artificial plants.

The Intermediate – Inceptive Sphere

Haegue Yang
A color photograph composed of 24 square images depicting various color and black-and-white scenes from film stills and fashion advertisements against a black background.

The Principle of Superimposition 2

Sara VanDerBeek
A color photograph of a square diamond composed of diagonally spliced colored strips against a white background.

Continuum Blue

Sara VanDerBeek
A sculpture of a scalloped form of speckled gold and green linoleum resembling a vest, draped over a dressmaker's work stand.

Vest (Scalloped)

Diane Simpson
A black-and-white photograph depicts an abstract composition of etched and torn surfaces and textures over a flat matte grey and speckled white background.

A Ground in the Air

Eileen Quinlan
A color photograph of a large, grey plasticine sphere on a dirty grate in the middle of a paved street. The sphere shows indentations from the grate.

Yielding Stone Image

Gabriel Orozco
A color photograph shows the choreographer Elizabeth Streb, a pale, middle-aged woman with spiky dark hair, dark-rimmed glasses, black clothing with a large embroidered floral design on the chest, and a serious expression, seated in a three-quarter profile against a black background.

Elizabeth

Catherine Opie
A sculpture made of an orthopedic walker and various salvaged metal works with a rolled up American flag wrapped in plastic laying across it.

Objectification Process

Cady Noland

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