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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 grainy black-and-white photograph of a pale nude figure lounging face-down on a couch, their left leg hanging down and resting on the floor.

101 Nudes

Jimmy DeSana
A stainless-steel sculpture of four backless, chairs connected together in the shape of an "L" in an empty gallery.

Untitled

Doris Salcedo
A color photograph portrait of a young woman with red hair, pale skin, red lipstick, and an orange sweater, shown in three-quarter profile.

Portrait (P. Fries)

Thomas Ruff
A color photograph depicts a single-story storage facility with a row of orange doors at a distance amid an overgrown, weedy field, rendered in soft purples, blues, and grays.

Upstate

Richard Prince
An illuminated film slide made up of vertically oriented strips of film showing silhouettes of insects, and letters spelling "END” among translucent pinks, blues, and blacks."

Number 9

Luther Price
A sculpture of a wall aluminum lightbox with the word "APPLAUSE" in white slanted lettering on a red background and a white cord hanging down from the right side, mounted on a white wall.

Applause

Jack Pierson
A color photograph of a gradient, ambient sky of pastel blues darkening into pastel oranges along the bottom frame.

Untitled (Reaper Drone)

Trevor Paglen
A black-and-white photograph of a man asleep under thick blankets in a home hospital bed, surrounded by an IV and other hospital equipment.

George Gannett, from the series People with AIDS

Nicholas Nixon
A bronze sculpture of a man in robes and a turban, looking at his hands, seated on the wooden floor of a gallery.

Portrait of a Turkish Man

Juan Muñoz
A color photograph depicts a scene of two Asian peasants, one played by the artist, posing with weapons in an open, devastated field as a red nuclear mushroom cloud blooms in the horizon.

Brothers (A Late Autumn Prayer)

Yasumasa Morimura
A sculptural installation of two identical pairs of chairs, one yellow and one blue chair. One pair is hung on the wall, one is on the floor.

Use/Used (two chairs I bought in New Bedford while visiting the Bloomberg/Farrell family)

Roy McMakin
Charles, LeDray Clothesline, 1994

Clothesline

Charles LeDray
A drawing of ink, gouache, and pastel on paper depicts an abstracted scene of pink flowers blooming against a dark landscape, with various colorful geometric shapes circling them.

A Flower (No. 14)

Yayoi Kusama
A video still shows the artist, a white man, in a bathtub, wearing headphones, and plays the guitar, and apparently nude.

The Visitors

Ragnar Kjartansson
A video still shows musician Pinetop Perkins, an older Black man, playing an upright piano in an open field before a wooden house.

The Man

Ragnar Kjartansson
A sculpture made of bundles of yellow-colored linen and wool thread piled on a large white platform.

Banisteriopsis II

Sheila Hicks
Leslie Hewitt "Untitled (Square)," from the "Blue Skies, Warm Sunlight" series, 2011

Untitled (Square), from the series Blue Skies, Warm Sunlight

Leslie Hewitt
A mixed- media collage of various abstracted geometric designs in black and white and in color.

Untitled

Eva Hesse
A video still shows a medium-dark-skinned young woman speaking into a microphone and looking at her interviewer, whose back is to the viewer.

Ricerche: three

Sharon Hayes
A sculpture made of very thick, beige rope or cordwoven together to resemble an abstracted inchworm on a concrete floor.

Inchworm

Françoise Grossen
A mosaic formed by concentric rectangles of postcards alternating among three different designs

Sky Blue World, from the series 25 Worlds

Gilbert and George
A black-and-white photograph shows the artist, a Black woman, looking directly at the viewer as she stands behind her mother, who is shown in profile and whose head obscures half of the artist's face. Both are wearing hair caps and a curtain is seen in the background.

Momme

LaToya Ruby Frazier
A textile sculpture composed of woven, sewn, and crocheted fibers stretched on a wooden garden trellis leaning against a wall.

Untitled

Josh Faught
A color photograph of an industrial yard covered in debris with a dilapidated building in the background.

Factory III

Willie Doherty

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