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The ICA is one of the country's leading museums dedicated to exhibiting the innovative art of our time. Since its founding in 1963, I.C.A. has established a reputation for identifying artists of promise who later emerge in the international spotlight.

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    Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)

    S. 36th Street and Sansom Street
    University of Pennsylvania
    Philadelphia, PA 19104

    Phone: 215-898-7108   |   Official Website

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    Access Information: Printed information is available in large print by request. Advance reservations are required at least two weeks in advance for special tours, accessible seating or interpreted events. Advance reservations are required at least three weeks for discounted admission.

    Wheelchair Access: Entrance is accessible, and an elevator is available—assistance may be needed.

  • • Current Events

      05/05/13- 06/16/13	Free Tour Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Free Tour Presented by Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) May 5-June 16, 2013 Visit ICA on select Sundays this spring for FREE TOURS by Penn graduate students. Both MFA and PhD candidates bring their insights and perspectives to the work on view. No need to schedule, just stop by ICA between 2-5PM on the following select Sundays: May 5: Iggy Cortez May 19: Iggy Cortez and Marijana Rayl June 2: Marijana Rayl June 16: Marijana Rayl
      04/24/13- 07/28/13	Karla Black Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Karla Black Presented by Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) April 24-July 28, 2013 Karla Black (b. 1972 Alexandria, Scotland; lives Glasgow) constructs large-scale, site-specific sculptures using amorphous yet everyday materials—from dirt, chalk, and dough to the powders, sprays, and gooey substances we use to coat our bodies. Her work reacts to the light and space of each site with a sense of play and indeterminacy. In forms that always seem on the brink of collapse, the unremarkable and commonplace are rendered transcendent through size and scale, grand...
      04/24/13- 07/28/13	Each One as She May; Ligon, Reich, and De Keersmaeker Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Each One as She May; Ligon, Reich, and De Keersmaeker Presented by Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) April 24-July 28, 2013 “Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding,” writes Gertrude Stein in The Making of Americans (1925). Works in this group exhibition, organized by Penn students in the Spiegel Contemporary Art Freshman Seminar, test this maxim through drawing, dance, film, and sound. In twenty-nine oil stick and coal dust works on paper by Glenn Ligon, the words “negro sunshine” (appropriated from Stein’s 1909 short story...
      02/06/13- 07/28/13	White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart Presented by Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) February 6-July 28, 2013 This group exhibition presents the work of artists engaged with clothing, adornment, and self-presentation to highlight the inventive design, tactical implementation, or sartorial sense, by which we multiply and complete our personalities. It takes inspiration from this definition by novelist JG Ballard—“Fashion: A recognition that nature has endowed us with one skin too few, and that a fully sentient being should wear its nervous system externally.” Image:...

  • • Upcoming Events

      05/22/13	Lecture: Hilton Als on "Diane Arbus in Manhattan" Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Lecture: Hilton Als on "Diane Arbus in Manhattan" Presented by Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) May 22, 2013 Explore Diane Arbus’s relationship to the city of her birth and death with writer and theater critic for The New Yorker, Hilton Als, whose work is featured in White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart.
      05/29/13	Lecture and Music: James Goggin and Lattimore/Zeigler Duo Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Lecture and Music: James Goggin and Lattimore/Zeigler Duo Presented by Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) May 29, 2013 Ruminate on the nuances of color with designer James Goggin. Following the lecture enjoy an improvisational performance by the harp and synthesizer duo of Mary Lattimore and Jeff Zeigler. ICA galleries will remain open until 9pm and refreshments will be served.
      06/26/13	Screening: I-House at ICA: Films by James Scott, Introduced by the Filmmaker Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Screening: I-House at ICA: Films by James Scott, Introduced by the Filmmaker Presented by Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) June 26, 2013 Sit under the stars on ICA’s terrace for a special evening of films about artists with our friends from International House. Filmmaker James Scott joins us in person to present his films on artists: Love’s Presentation (1966) (with David Hockney), Richard Hamilton (1969), and The Great Ice Cream Robbery (1971) (with Claes Oldenburg). Refreshments will be available.

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  Upcoming Events

  • Current Events

    05/05/13- 06/16/13	Free Tour Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Free Tour Presented by Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) May 5-June 16, 2013 Visit ICA on select Sundays this spring for FREE TOURS by Penn graduate students. Both MFA and PhD candidates bring their insights and perspectives to the work on view. No need to schedule, just stop by ICA between 2-5PM on the following select Sundays: May 5: Iggy Cortez May 19: Iggy Cortez and Marijana Rayl June 2: Marijana Rayl June 16: Marijana Rayl
    04/24/13- 07/28/13	Karla Black Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Karla Black Presented by Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) April 24-July 28, 2013 Karla Black (b. 1972 Alexandria, Scotland; lives Glasgow) constructs large-scale, site-specific sculptures using amorphous yet everyday materials—from dirt, chalk, and dough to the powders, sprays, and gooey substances we use to coat our bodies. Her work reacts to the light and space of each site with a sense of play and indeterminacy. In forms that always seem on the brink of collapse, the unremarkable and commonplace are rendered transcendent through size and scale, grand...
    04/24/13- 07/28/13	Each One as She May; Ligon, Reich, and De Keersmaeker Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Each One as She May; Ligon, Reich, and De Keersmaeker Presented by Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) April 24-July 28, 2013 “Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding,” writes Gertrude Stein in The Making of Americans (1925). Works in this group exhibition, organized by Penn students in the Spiegel Contemporary Art Freshman Seminar, test this maxim through drawing, dance, film, and sound. In twenty-nine oil stick and coal dust works on paper by Glenn Ligon, the words “negro sunshine” (appropriated from Stein’s 1909 short story...
    02/06/13- 07/28/13	White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart Presented by Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) February 6-July 28, 2013 This group exhibition presents the work of artists engaged with clothing, adornment, and self-presentation to highlight the inventive design, tactical implementation, or sartorial sense, by which we multiply and complete our personalities. It takes inspiration from this definition by novelist JG Ballard—“Fashion: A recognition that nature has endowed us with one skin too few, and that a fully sentient being should wear its nervous system externally.” Image:...

  • Upcoming Events

    05/22/13	Lecture: Hilton Als on "Diane Arbus in Manhattan" Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Lecture: Hilton Als on "Diane Arbus in Manhattan" Presented by Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) May 22, 2013 Explore Diane Arbus’s relationship to the city of her birth and death with writer and theater critic for The New Yorker, Hilton Als, whose work is featured in White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart.
    05/29/13	Lecture and Music: James Goggin and Lattimore/Zeigler Duo Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Lecture and Music: James Goggin and Lattimore/Zeigler Duo Presented by Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) May 29, 2013 Ruminate on the nuances of color with designer James Goggin. Following the lecture enjoy an improvisational performance by the harp and synthesizer duo of Mary Lattimore and Jeff Zeigler. ICA galleries will remain open until 9pm and refreshments will be served.
    06/26/13	Screening: I-House at ICA: Films by James Scott, Introduced by the Filmmaker Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Screening: I-House at ICA: Films by James Scott, Introduced by the Filmmaker Presented by Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) June 26, 2013 Sit under the stars on ICA’s terrace for a special evening of films about artists with our friends from International House. Filmmaker James Scott joins us in person to present his films on artists: Love’s Presentation (1966) (with David Hockney), Richard Hamilton (1969), and The Great Ice Cream Robbery (1971) (with Claes Oldenburg). Refreshments will be available.

• Past
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  • Past Events

    05/11/13	Conversation: Richard Meyer and Judith Tannenbaum Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    04/17/13	Performance: Leig Elggren, That Little Idiot Telling the Truth Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    03/27/13	Free For All Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    03/21/13	PennDesign Fine Arts Lecture Series: Mary Reid Kelley Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    03/20/13	Opening Program: Excursus IV: Primary Information Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    03/13/13	With Tomorrow's Sun: A Night of Poetry and Performance Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    02/27/13	Brian Weil Gallery Talk with Jeanna Vaccaro Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    02/24/13	Curator Talk and Conversation: Brian Weil Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    02/21/13	PennDesign Fine Arts Lecture Series: Wael Shawky Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    02/16/13	Screening and Talk: Chris Kraus Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    02/07/13	PennDesign Fine Arts Lecture Series: Jules de Balincourt Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    02/06/13- 03/31/13	Brian Weil Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    02/06/13	Winter Opening Reception @ ICA Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    02/06/13- 03/31/13	Glitter and Folds Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    02/06/13- 03/31/13	Open Video Call Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    11/28/12	ICA Salon: Folk / Subculture Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    11/07/12	ICA Salon: Sound / Music Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    10/31/12	Open Video Call Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    10/28/12	My Barbarian Performance Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    10/24/12	ICA Salon: Staging / Restaging Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    09/21/12- 09/22/12	Enchanted Drawing II: Animation Across the Disciplines Symposium Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    07/28/12	Bachelor Party: Marcel Duchamp's Birthday Celebration with Will Holder Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    07/26/12	Is Your Leisure Time Private? Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    05/26/12	Machete Group: Discussion Series with Order of the Third Bird Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    05/23/12	Machete Group: Discussion Series with Daniel Snelson and Mashinka Firunts Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    05/16/12- 06/03/12	Marginal Utility Daniel Lefcourt: Active Surplus Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    05/13/12	Ian Svenonius: Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock 'n' Roll Group Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    04/04/12- 08/12/12	Stefan Sagmeister - The Happy Show at ICA Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    12/08/11	Stefan Sagmeister at PennDesign Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    12/03/11	Performance Art Event Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    11/17/11	PennDesign Presents Diana Cooper Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    10/06/11	PennDesign Presents Hamza Walker Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    09/15/11	PennDesign presents Leslie Hewitt Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    04/23/11	Le Bateau Lavoir Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    04/20/11	Travelogue: Santiago, Chile- Camila Marambio Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    03/24/11	Exhibition Opening of Sheila Hicks: 50 Years Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    03/16/11	Lecture: On Sherry Boyle & Emily Duke: The Illuminatons Project Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    03/02/11	Conversation: On Anne Tyng Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    02/23/11	Travelogue: Paris, France--Pierre Leguillon Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    02/16/11	Weaving as Metaphor Lecture Series Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    02/09/11	ICA Free for All Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    02/09/11	Lecture: Artist as Curator Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    01/13/11	Winter Opening Reception Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    01/13/11- 03/20/11	Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    12/08/10	Travelogue: Singapore Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    12/01/10	Conversation with Erin Shirreff Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    11/10/10	Open Video Call Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    11/03/10	Conversation: On Conservation Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    10/20/10	Travelogue: Vilnius, Lithuania Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    10/13/10	ICA Book Celebration and Lecture Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    09/29/10	ICA Free for All Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    09/22/10	Art School Double Feature Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    09/15/10- 08/10/10	Fall Opening Reception Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    07/17/10	Women's Body Image Workshop Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    07/01/10- 07/31/10	Summer Studio with Anthony Campuzano Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    06/23/10	Screening/Salon/Cabaret/Disco Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    05/19/10	Screening: The Extraordinary Ordinary Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    05/05/10	ICA: Benefit 2010 Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    05/01/10- 05/31/10	Admission to Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    04/28/10	Conversation and Screening: Ryan Trecartin Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    04/22/10- 03/30/10	ICA Spring Opening Reception Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    04/21/10	Maira Kalman Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    04/14/10	Whenever Wednesday: Jewish Culture in Maira Kalman's Work Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    04/14/10- 03/30/10	Lecture: Jewish Culture in Maira Kalman's Work Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    04/08/10- 04/11/10	Milton Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    04/07/10	Whenever Wednesday: Cabaret, Curated by Sarah McEneaney Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    03/31/10	Whenever Wednesday: Michael Bierut and Chee Pearlman on M&Co Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    03/03/10	Lecture: Ingrid Schaffner on Maira Kalman Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    02/24/10	Whenever Wednesday: Screening: Kinetic Cinema Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    02/10/10	Whenever Wednesday: Lecture: Maira Kalman Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    02/04/10	Douglas Crimp on Warhol's Paul Swan Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    02/03/10	Lucy Gallun on Video Art: Replay Part II Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    01/30/10	Exaltations Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    01/15/10- 06/06/10	Philagrafika 2010: Independent Project - Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World) Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    01/14/10	Winter Opening Reception Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    01/13/10	Whenever Wednesday: Dance with Camera Cinema Program Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    12/02/09	On Dance with Camera Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    11/04/09	On Tim Rollins + K.O.S.: A History Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    10/28/09	Tim Rollins And Members of K.O.S. Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    10/21/09- 03/10/10	Kinetic Cinema Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    10/14/09	Under The Influence of Busby Berkeley Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    10/07/09	What is Contemporary Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    09/10/09	Fall Opening Reception Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    09/10/09- 03/21/10	Dance with Camera Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    09/10/09- 12/06/09	Video Art: Replay, Part 1, Asking Not Telling Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    07/22/09	Whenever Wednesday Performance: Saturn Never Sleeps Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    07/15/09	Whenever Wednesday: Double Feature Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    07/11/09	Philadelphia Record Fair 2009 Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    07/08/09	Whenever Wednesday Lecture: John Szwed Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    06/10/09	Whenever Wednesday: Get Your Dirt On: Clay Workshop and Film Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    05/30/09	Moravian Pottery and Tile Works Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    05/27/09	Whenever Wednesday: Eugene Hecht on George Ohr Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    05/07/09	Conversation with Beverly Semmes and Glenn Adamson Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    04/27/09- 05/03/09	Museum Week at the Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    04/24/09- 08/02/09	Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn and Chicago's Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-68 Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    04/24/09- 08/02/09	Tavares Strachan: You Can Do Whatever You Like (The Orthostatic Tolerance Project) Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    04/23/09	ICA Spring Opening Reception Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    03/25/09	Conversation: Kathy Butterly and Garth Clark Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    03/18/09	Conversation: Joshua Mosley and Elisabeth Camp Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
    01/15/09- 06/21/09	Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)