Museum  December 17, 2024  Megan D Robinson

The Must-See Pieces at the ICA Miami

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©Keiichi Tanaami. Courtesy of NANZUKA

Keiichi Tanaami, Ultra-man, 2018. Pigmented ink, acrylic silkscreen medium, crashed glass, glitter acrylic paint, acrylic paint on canvas, H146 x W200 x D4 cm (diptych)

A cultural anchor, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) promotes continuous experimentation in contemporary art, advances new scholarship, and fosters the exchange of art and ideas throughout the Miami region and internationally. Launched in 2014, ICA Miami opened its current home in Miami’s Design District in 2017. A critical component of Miami Art Week, the museum also provides an exhibition platform for Miami Art Basel, the major annual international art event. Museum admission is always free. 

As part of its tenth anniversary, the ICA Miami is presenting a diverse series of major exhibitions by boundary-pushing artistic innovators. Among these includes: the first U.S. solo museum presentations for rising abstract painter Lucy Bull and the late influential pop artist Keiichi Tanaami; an important showcasing of Afro-diasporic artist Rubem Valentim; a new immersive installation by interdisciplinary artist Marguerite Humeau; and emerging artist Ding Shilun. 

These exhibitions run through March 30th, 2025. Read on to view our top choices for works on display, and for more information, visit the ICA Miami website

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Courtesy of the Artist and David Kordansky Gallery
Image: Lucy Bull, Most Attractive, 2019, oil on linen, 50 x 60 1/8 x 1 ½ inches, (127 x 152.7 x 3.8 cm)
Lucy Bull: The Garden of Forking Paths

Lucy Bull: The Garden of Forking Paths showcases the dynamic abstractions of Los Angeles-based painter Lucy Bull (b. 1990). Swirling studies of exuberant colors that half-form into faint shapes like clouds in one’s imagination, Bull’s paintings are atmospheric experiences. 

In Most Attractive, 2019, feathery shapes, tubular coils, and triangular edges spiral out from a dark center into a hazy, glinting, textured field of turquoise, pink, and white.

Image: Lucy Bull, Most Attractive, 2019, oil on linen, 50 x 60 1/8 x 1 ½ inches, (127 x 152.7 x 3.8 cm)

About the Author

Megan D Robinson

Megan D Robinson writes for Art & Object and the Iowa Source.