Additional Past Presentations

Crystalline sugar cubes stacked like bricks on a silver platter melt sensuously, absorbing thick black liquid and crumbling into a glistening, viscous mass. Kader Attia’s video Oil and Sugar #2 marries simple materials—motor oil and sugar cubes—evoking… more

This interactive installation, presented alongside Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon, invites visitors to explore two of Whitney’s creative influences: music and architecture. Featuring a playlist of jazz songs that have inspired Whitney, as well as models… more

These lens-based works, created by women artists in the 1980s, reveal the personal and political potential of transforming oneself into an alternate self. In New York in the summer of 1980, Howardena Pindell donned a wig and… more

This interactive installation created in collaboration with the Boston Ballet Costume Shop provides a behind-the-scenes look into how costumes are constructed for Boston Ballet. This installation will be open to visitors during Charles Atlas: About Time and… more

Zoe Pettijohn Schade creates painstaking paintings on paper, often working for years on works that take a unique approach to pattern and repetition. The recent work Attempts at Self Organization: Prevailing Bonds, on view in the third floor… more

Chronicles from Castle Square is an exhibition of artwork by teens from the Change Creators program at Castle Square Tenants Organization (CSTO). These artists focus in on stories that are of significance to them. The photography is arranged… more

As You Are explores the unique and evolving expressions of beauty in the human form through art made by ICA teen artists. While the concept of the ideal human form is often warped by societal expectations, the… more

Nan Goldin and Jack Pierson were part of the “Boston School”—a group of loosely affiliated artists who met in Boston in the late 1970s and 80s and focused much of their work on the queer underground scene… more

From the Ground Up explores relationships between people and their environments, as well as interactions between the natural and the man-made. ICA teen artists express ideas about the ways in which they experience nature, the most unusual places… more

In conjunction with Guadalupe Maravilla: Mariposa Relámpago, the ICA collaborated with organizations and individuals in East Boston who support community healing and well-being. Many are members of the thriving East Boston Community Healing Center Project, a group… more

The Stories that Make Us is an exhibition of artwork by high school students that explores personal stories about migration, belonging, and overcoming adversity. This exhibit embodies how different stories intersect and finds the commonalities we all… more

Xaviera Simmons pursues a research-based practice that spans photography, performance, video, sound, sculpture, and installation, and explores the experiences, memories, and histories of African diasporas. In the series Sundown (2018–present), referencing “sundown towns” where many Black Americans… more

The ICA is committed to sharing artists’ perspectives on the world. These two photographs are in the museum’s permanent collection and were made in Ukraine by photographer Boris Mikhailov, who was featured in a solo exhibition at… more

As part of a larger photography project for Virgil Abloh’s “Church & State,” Boston-based artist OJ Slaughter (born 1993 in Richmond, Virginia) collaborated with ICA teens on an editorial fashion shoot inspired by Abloh’s work and his… more

On display in the ICA Watershed Harbor Room is a project by Boston-based artist Stephen Hamilton highlighting the generations-long tradition of indigo dyeing in West Africa too often ignored in the accounting of early American history. Included is Hamilton’s painting… more

In conjunction with the exhibition Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech” the ICA will host “Church & State,” a pop-up retail experience featuring a variety of products designed by Abloh. Offerings include a line of exhibition-specific apparel, as well as… more

This installation features new works made by Boston-area teens in the ICA’s nationally recognized Teen Programs. Throughout the school year, participants in the museum’s rigorous digital photography courses learned to use museum-issued cameras, and established positive relationships… more

Best known for his large-scale sculptures and installations, Ugo Rondinone (born 1964, Brunnen, Switzerland) works in a diverse range of media, including drawing, painting, photography, and video. Rondinone’s series Moonrise—his first figurative sculptures—are eight-foot-high busts derived from masks. Modeled… more