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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 of an abandoned, red car on the side of a dark road at night.

Suspicious Vehicle

Willie Doherty
A video still of crudely-rendered clay figures caught mid-action in a dark, ambiguous space.

Bang your little drums

Nathalie Djurberg ,Hans Berg
A blurry black-and-white photograph of people on a boat with small, white annotations.

The Russian Ending

Tacita Dean
A sculpture of an overturned mop and woolen strings on a concrete base.

BUST XXXV

Alexandre da Cunha
A sculpture composed of a colorful costume covering the body of a mannequin a chandelier-like headpiece decorated with ceramic birds and strings of beads.

Soundsuit

Nick Cave
A black-and-white photograph of the artist lying on a messy floor with text under the picture.

The Doctor’s Daughter (La fille du docteur)

Sophie Calle
A painting of two abstracted figures lying down against a light blue background.

Untitled

Laylah Ali
A colored drawing of two cartoon-like figures of differing heights interacting with each other.

Untitled

Laylah Ali
Dozens of white T-shirts hang from hangers attached to three wooden beams suspended from the gallery ceiling.

Untitled

Andrew Witkin
A black video monitor with attached speakers on either side shows a still of a pale-skinned woman in a white t-shirt in mid-speech as she faces the viewer.

Karaoke Wrong Number

Rachel Perry
A narrow vertical painting composed of collaged magazine pages overlaid with patterns of painted white bricks.

Lee Radziwill Interview March 1975

Kelley Walker
A relief painting composed of thin strips of black and white printed paper.

Untitled III

Philip Taaffe
A mixed media work on a black wall with drawn, overlapping, peopled scenes of amusement rides at Coney Island.

Coney Island Installation

Swoon
A black-and-white photograph of the artist posing in a small, cramped kitchen, looking over her shoulder. She wears a sleeveless top and dramatic eye makeup and the image is cropped to include dishes and dish detergent but cut off the top of her head.

Untitled Film Still #3

Cindy Sherman
A color photograph shows a light-skinned adolescent boy wearing blue jeans and no shirt seated on a low, leaning tree in an open field.

A Possible Mutation

Collier Schorr
A color photograph of a light-skinned, adolescent boy wearing blue jeans and no shirt leaning upright against a green tree in an open field.

Lovely to Feel and to Touch

Collier Schorr
A color photograph of two light-skinned adolescents posed in an embrace in an open field, shirtless except for a bra and a binding bra and facing the viewer directly.

South of No North

Collier Schorr
A collage of 24 black-and-white newspaper images, depicting various people and scenes in history.

Zeitungsphotos

Thomas Ruff
A color photograph portrait resembling an ID photo of a young man with light skin, dark hair, and a black button-up shirt, shown in close-up and staring directly at the viewer.

Martin Vossing

Thomas Ruff
An oil painting on linen depicts an abstract landscape of dynamic brown lines and circles and a constellation of black abstracted lines and shapes on a white background.

The Salt Pit

Matthew Ritchie
A color photograph reproduces two figures running in close-up over a brightly sunlit beach, the image abstracted by colorful solar flare.

Remake of the Weekend (Stills)

Pipilotti Rist
A mixed media work featuring thin, subtly tinted stripes on a white background.

Exhibition Guide, Chapter 15 [white diamond dust arrow pattern]

R. H. Quaytman
An installation comprised of two display cases containing the suspended components of a dissected 35mm Olympus camera.

Olympus

Damián Ortega
A still of a black-and-white simplified figure in a black dress walking to the left on a white background in a vertically-oriented black frame.

Suzanne Walking in Leather Skirt

Julian Opie

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