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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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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
A small ceramic sculpture comprises a rectangular slab with two protruding, crossed, leg-like forms, a shiny black puddle that oozes down the sides, and a red flower-like tuft.

Boston Scrambler

Ron Nagle
A grainy color photograph shows three light-skinned people in a hallway next to a wall of pinned-up images of nudes: a woman made up like a movie starlet and coyly posed, and two men in open collared shirts, one with a T-shirt underneath, holding theatrical masks and looking directly at the viewer.

“Nymph-O-Maniac” Promo Still Spectacular Studios

Mark Morrisroe
A black-and-white photograph of a bedroom with an inverted projection of two houses on the wall behind the bed.

Camera Obscura: Houses Across the Street in Our Bedroom, Quincy, Massachusetts

Abelardo Morell
A color photograph depicts a snapshot of a Black man standing in a yard lying, on top of a page from a textbook showing a photo of Walter Cronkite next to a map of South America, displayed flat on a wooden floor.

Riffs on Real Time (3 of 10), from the series Riffs on Real Time

Leslie Hewitt
A painting featuring two sheets of lined penmanship paper surrounded by clusters of small eyes.

Untitled

Ellen Gallagher
A black-and-white photograph shows the artist, a Black woman, standing shoulder to shoulder with her mother before floral-patterned wallpaper. They are wearing white tank tops and casual bottoms and gaze directly at the viewer.

Momme Portrait Series (Floral Comforter), from the series The Notion of Family

LaToya Ruby Frazier
A black-and-white photograph shows the artist, a Black woman, and her mother in lounge wear and hair caps reflected in a mirror resting on a gas radiator.

Mom Making an Image of Me, from the series The Notion of Family

LaToya Ruby Frazier
A black-and-white photograph shows the artist, a Black woman, gazing directly at the viewer with the reflection of her mother visible in a mirror behind her. She is wearing a T-shirt with the cast of the Cosby Show on it.

Huxtables, Mom and Me, from the series The Notion of Family

LaToya Ruby Frazier
A color photograph of a sandy dune with plants obscured by a cloudy, black form with the words "yes Tomorrow no Tomorrow" scratched into it.

Yes Tomorrow, No Tomorrow

Shannon Ebner
A grayscale photograph of the phrase "The Day-Sob-Dies" suspended between two thin poles in an overgrown field against the skyline of a city in the distance.

The Day-Sob-Dies

Shannon Ebner
A color photograph of a light-skinned young boy in grayish-green standing in a wooded park.

Tiergarten, Berlin, August 13, 2000

Rineke Dijkstra

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