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Select galleries are currently closed for the installation of a new exhibition. Check out what's on view!

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
An oil painting of an abstracted geometric and semi-transparent window in the style of Piet Mondrianshadow silhouettes of two apparently female figures.

Untitled

Lucy McKenzie
An installation of a mirrored glass case holdings hand-blown mirrored glass geometric objects to create an infinitely repeating mirrored visual effect.

Czech Modernism Mirrored and Reflected Infinitely

Josiah McElheny
An installation of five ceramic plates displayed on five shelves and printed with the sayings"We Shall Overcome,", "Black is Beautiful,", "Burn Baby Burn,", "Black Power,", and "By Any Means Necessary."

Untitled

Kerry James Marshall
A white neon sculpture hung on a wall spells "AMERICA" in backwards capital letters.

Rückenfigur

Glenn Ligon
A mostly white painting composed of several layers of vertically oriented poster paper.

Untitled (Poster Painting)

Klara Lidén
An installation consists of an oil painting of a black flag with a grey star, a much smaller black-and-white photograph of a couple in military uniform, and a blue book jacket with a white star..

Homecoming

Annette Lemieux
A sculpture of stitched fabric squares in dark shades over a mound reminiscent of a crouched body on the floor of an empty gallery.

Untitled

Charles LeDray
A drawing of ink on paper depicts a close-up portrait of a man with light skin, dark hair, and several facial tattoos dressed in a suit, against a background of written text and spider webs.

Sin título / Untitled (X8 Controla)

Dr. Lakra
A video still shows the artist, a young white man in a white t-shirt, aiming a bow and arrow at a display of assorted vegetables in a grocery store.

The Hunt

Christian Jankowski
An installation of three videos projected onto three adjacent walls of a gallery. The central image shows a middle-aged white man in a suit seated in an office looking directly at the viewer, the others show a city storefront.

Point of Sale

Christian Jankowski
A sculpture made of carved wood and painted to appear like a miniature Tower of Pisa souvenir dangling from a chain necklace.

Wood-Chain VIII (Pisa Tower)

Thomas Hirschhorn
A collage comprised of variously sized and cut fragments of mixed- media sources, including colorful images, sketches, and drawings, creating the overall appearance of an abstract expressionist painting.

Hasen

Arturo Herrera
A color photograph of a Japanese, male-presenting young adult laying on their side on a leopard print sofa, smiling through smudged red lipstick, and wearing a black fishnet scarf over white underpants.

Takaho After Kissing, Tokyo

Nan Goldin
A color photograph of a Japanese adult with powdered makeup and red lipstick looking directly at the viewer in a cluttered room.

Tomoyuki in Front of T.V., Tokyo

Nan Goldin
A color photograph of two heavily made-up performers in red and green feathered evening gowns helping each other get ready in a dressing room.

Noa dressing for the Venus Show at Shogun

Nan Goldin
A collage of 23 color photographs depicting women in various stages of pregnancy or caring for children.

From Here to Maternity

Nan Goldin
A color photograph of a young light-skinned toddler with red cheeks wearing all white, raising one hand, and looking at the viewer.

Ulrike, Stockholm

Nan Goldin
A color photograph of an older light-skinned woman wearing a yellow blouse and black pants and laughing widely while seated on the edge of a bed.

Lil Laughing, Swampscott, MA

Nan Goldin
A color photograph shows the shadowy image of a figure crouching in a cloud of illuminated smoke in a hilly landscape.

Bruce in the Smoke, Pozzuoli, Italy

Nan Goldin
A square color photograph of two Asian youths standing on a street under a flurry of cherry blossoms.

Honda brothers in cherry blossom storm, Tokyo

Nan Goldin
A color photograph shows the artist, a light-skinned woman with curly reddish hair and red lipstick, close- up in profile as she gazes out of a train window.

Self-Portrait on the Train, Germany

Nan Goldin
A black-and-white photograph of a light-skinned young woman leaning over the railing of a hospital bed, holding the hand of a frail and pale elderly woman who lays in the bed and looks up at her.

Chrissy with her 100-year-old grandmother, Provincetown

Nan Goldin
A color photograph of a landscape, where the sky appears to merge with the terrain.

Untitled (Grey Dry Stream)

Noriko Furunishi
A red and black screenprint of two light-skinned men in suits, one holding an Obey sticker, with the sentence "GIANT CURED ALL MY OBEDIENCE PROBLEMS!" printed above them.

Obedience Problems

Shepard Fairey

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