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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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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
A red, black, and orange screenprint of Lenin's portrait in profile overlaying an intricate red and orange design and "OBEYGIANT" along the bottom edge.

Lenin Stamp

Shepard Fairey
A red, black, and orange screenprint of Marilyn Monroe's head with the face of André the Giant superimposed with "OBEY" along the bottom edge.

Marilyn Warhol

Shepard Fairey
A red, black, and orange screenprint of a fist against a red background with an orange star and "OBEY" along the bottom edge.

OBEY Fist

Shepard Fairey
A red, black, and orange screenprint of a graphically-rendered burning printing press with “OBEY” along the upper edge.

Print and Destroy (Printing Press)

Shepard Fairey
A red, black, and orange screenprint in red, orange, and black of a pole wrapped with an Obey sticker featuring a faces against a sky background.

Obey Pole

Shepard Fairey
A screenprint of Richard Nixon's portrait bust overlaying a monochromatic green design resembling U.S. paper currency.

Nixon Money

Shepard Fairey
A red and black screenprint of a cartoonish can of spray paint with a face and human limbs standing over the statement "Mr. SprayTM Says "MAKE ART NOT WAR."

Mr. Spray

Shepard Fairey
A red and black screenprint of a graphic landscape with a plume of dust from an explosion and the phrase "Greetings from IRAQ" along the bottom.

Greetings from Iraq

Shepard Fairey
A red and black screenprint of a faded composition featuring a bearded figure pasting up a poster of a face framed by an elaborate border design.

Vintage Paster

Shepard Fairey
A red and black screenprint of three arms holding up rifles that sprout roses with red and yellow lines radiating from the central rose.

Guns and Roses

Shepard Fairey
A screenprint of a woman wearing an elaborate head covering and an owl against an orange, yellow, and gold background.

Peace Goddess

Shepard Fairey
A red and black screenprint of a woman's face partly obscured by a mask and cap with a circular logo.

Mujer Fatal

Shepard Fairey
A black and red screenprint of a woman with an afro surrounded by a pattern of petals and peace signs and the phrases "POWER TO THE PEOPLE," and "POWER & EQUALITY."

Afrocentric (Power & Equality)

Shepard Fairey
A red and gold screenprint of two parents cradling a missile like a baby against an elaborate, red and yellow background reminiscent of a postage stamp.

Proud Parents

Shepard Fairey
A screenprint of an ornate red and pale yellow peace sign containing the silhouette of a bomber aircraft against a black background.

Peace Bomber

Shepard Fairey
A red and black screenprint of a Led Zeppelin album cover featuring an airship flying over an art deco building against a black and red background.

Mothership

Shepard Fairey
A black and red screenprint of a Jane's Addiction concert poster featuring winged skulls and brass knuckles embedded in an elaborate composition with concert details.

Jane’s Addiction

Shepard Fairey
A color photograph of a young woman with light skin and dark hair in a black-and-white striped turtleneck standing behind a cafe counter.

Holly at Marlow and Sons

Roe Ethridge
A color photograph of a piebald brown and white pigeon in midflight against a field of pale blue.

Untitled

Roe Ethridge
A color photograph of a waterway with many boats and a bridge connecting two shores dotted with houses and trees.

County Line Meadowmere Park

Roe Ethridge

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