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Please Note

A portion of our galleries are currently closed for the installation of an upcoming exhibition. Check out our current exhibitions!

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 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
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

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