The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
The Institute of Contemporary Art strives to share the pleasures of reflection, inspiration, provocation, and imagination that contemporary art offers through public access to art, artists, and the creative process.
The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is an art museum and exhibition space located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. The museum was founded as the Boston Museum of Modern Art in 1936 with a mission to exhibit contemporary art. Since then it has gone through multiple name changes as well as moving its galleries and support spaces over 13 times. Its current home was built in 2006 in the South Boston Seaport District and designed by architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
The ICA's exhibition program has included the Momentum series, focusing on the work of emerging artists, the Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall, an annual, site-specific commission in the museum lobby, the James and Audrey Foster Prize, a biennial exhibition and award for Boston-area artists, and selections from the permanent collection. The West Gallery (known today as Bridgitt and Bruce Evans Family and Karen and Brian Conway Galleries), the largest exhibition space, has featured solo and group exhibitions including Super Vision (2006), Philip-Lorca diCorcia (2007), Street Level (2008), Anish Kapoor (2008), Tara Donovan (2008), Shepard Fairey (2009), and Mark Bradford (2011).The most recent shows include Liz Deschenes (2016), Mark Dion: Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist (2017), William Forsythe: Choreographic Objects (2018-2019).