ICA Miami's 2024 Fall Season

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) tenth anniversary year culminates in a series of major solo presentations of artists recognized for their innovative and exploratory practices. Opening in advance of Miami Art Week, exhibitions include the first U.S. solo museum presentations for rising abstract painter Lucy Bull and influential pop artist Keiichi Tanaami, a showcase of two critical series by Rubem Valentim, a key figure in Afro-diasporic art, and a new immersive installation by interdisciplinary artist Marguerite Humeau. The museum’s project space for emerging artists features new works by Ding Shilun. The program reflects ICA Miami’s dedication to representing a diverse set of global perspectives and spotlighting artists who are pushing the boundaries of contemporary art through their practices.

Lucy Bull, 4_28. Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery

“As we mark ICA Miam’s tenth anniversary, our fall season reflects the significant evolution of our exhibitions program since our founding and our steadfast commitment to platforming both rising and established artists influencing contemporary art making,” said Alex Gartenfeld, ICA Miami Irma and Norman Braman Artistic Director. “From bringing renewed attention to the influential artists Ruben Valentim and Keiichi Tanaami to providing a critical institutional platform for rising artists Lucy Bull and Marguerite Humeau, these truly encapsulate ICA Miami’s wide-ranging exhibitions program.”

Keiichi Tanaami – (November 21, 2024 – March 30, 2025)

The first U.S. museum exhibition of Japanese pop artist Keiichi Tanaami (b. 1936, Japan) surveys Tanaami’s pioneering career, from the artist’s seminal drawings of the 1960s, to collages extending into the very early 1970s, and his works of the 1980s which reflect an increasing interest in architecture and science fiction. Together, the works demonstrate the artist's uses of pop to explore violence, emerging commercialism, and sexuality, in addition to his explorations of mainstream cinema, punk, independent filmmaking, commercial forms, psychedelia, anti-war protests, and the historical consequence of the atomic bomb.

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Lucy Bull: The Garden of Forking Paths – (December 3, 2024 – March 30, 2025)

Marking the first U.S. museum exhibition for abstract painter Lucy Bull (b. 1990, New York), this ICA Miami exhibition brings together 20 of Bull’s recent paintings created between 2019-2024, many of which are on view for the first time, and a new monumental lightbox work for the museum’s staircase. Among the works featured are two large-scale horizontal works that stretch over ten feet across, signaling a new space of exploration for the artist into different sizes and scales. In her work, the macroscopic and the microscopic constantly swap places, as often as landscapes become internal psychic spaces and vice versa. Worlds take shape as momentary coagulations, only to settle back into a plasticity that easily folds back into a space of constant metamorphosis. ICA Miami was the first museum to acquire work by Bull in 2020.

Lucy Bull, 1_24. Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery

Lucy Bull, 3_13. Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery

Marguerite Humeau – (December 3, 2024 – March 30, 2025)

A group of large-scale, newly commissioned sculptures and a video work come together in this immersive installation by Marguerite Humeau (b.1986, France), reflecting her practice at the intersection of speculative exploration and cultural analysis. Influenced by the looming shadow of the climate crisis, the works draw upon deep research and the artist’s interest in existential philosophies and mythologies to speculate on the future of humanity and our ecosystems.

Marguerite Humeau. The artist generated this image in part with DALL-E, OpenAI’s image-generation model.

Ding Shilun – (December 3, 2024 – March 30, 2025)

ICA Miami presents the first solo US museum exhibition by Ding Shilun (b. 1988, Guangzhou, China). Shilun, who is based between London and Guangzhou, will be debuting a series of newly commissioned works that continue the theme of his “personal fable.” Culling inspiration from art history, Chinese folklore, Japanese Manga, and historical events, Shilun creates ethereal and unexpectedly ominous narrative paintings. With their idiosyncratic mythologies, the works broadly reflect the artist’s own experience, while deftly speaking to our shared reality. ICA Miami recently acquired Shilun’s The Weight of The Oath and is the first museum to acquire a work by the artist.

Ding Shilun, The Weight of The Oath, (2022)

Crossroads: Rubem Valentim's 1960s – (November 21, 2024 – March 30, 2025)

This exhibition features two series of paintings by Afro-Brazilian artist Rubem Valentim (b. 1922, Brazil; d. 1991) from the 1960s, highlighting a key period in the artist's career and showcasing his singular voice in modernist painting. Valentin's merging of European geometric abstraction and African influences and sign-systems opened a new field of exploration in painting and shaped the trajectory of Brazilian art for generations of artists. Valentim began the decade working on his Compositions, which drew from the tradition of European geometric abstraction that informed the most progressive lines of postwar Brazilian and South American art. By 1967, when he began creating the Emblems, Valentim increasingly incorporated influences of deities in Afro-Brazilian religions, resulting in a new vocabulary and approach to form. These paintings evolved from traditional oil on canvas works to austere bas-reliefs and free-standing objects that incorporated signs made out of wood.

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Exhibition Support

Exhibitions at ICA Miami are supported by the Knight Foundation. The 2024 exhibitions are supported by the Nicoll Family Fund, the Kathy & Steven Guttman Family Foundation, Monica & Blake Grossman, among others.

Sustainability Commitment

ICA Miami is committed to reducing its climate footprint by adopting best practices for sustainability and partnering with organizations that focus on conservation. As part of this effort, ICA Miami has adopted sustainable shipping methods for all exhibitions and implements carbon offsets for select major exhibitions. ICA Miami is also the first museum in Florida to support the use of renewable energy and the growth of the sector. The museum matches 100% of its electricity consumption through the procurement of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). In 2020, the museum was among the original grantees for the first Frankenthaler Foundation funding for sustainability efforts in the arts.

About the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) is dedicated to promoting continuous experimentation in contemporary art, advancing new scholarship, and fostering the exchange of art and ideas throughout the Miami region and internationally. Through an energetic calendar of exhibitions and programs, and its collection, ICA Miami provides an important international platform for the work of local, emerging, and under-recognized artists, and advances the public appreciation and understanding of the most innovative art of our time. Launched in 2014, ICA Miami opened its new permanent home in Miami’s Design District in December 2017. The museum’s central location positions it as a cultural anchor within the community and enhances its role in developing cultural literacy throughout the Miami region. The museum offers free admission, providing audiences with open, public access to artistic excellence year-round.

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami is located at 61 NE 41st Street, Miami, Florida, 33137. For more information, visit www.icamiami.org or follow the museum on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook and explore the ICA Channel for inside looks at ICA Miami exhibitions and the practices of the most exciting artists working today.