Miller ICA at Carnegie Mellon University

Miller ICA at Carnegie Mellon University Institute for Contemporary Art Pittsburgh, formerly Miller ICA, CMU’s contemporary art institute.

Miller ICA is Carnegie Mellon University’s contemporary art institute providing transformative experiences with contemporary art through exhibitions, conversation, and exchange in a free and open public space. General operating support for the Miller ICA is provided by Carnegie Mellon University. Exhibitions and programs are supported by Regina and Marlin Miller, as well as the CMU College of Fine

Arts, and in part by a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Additional support comes from gallery members, patrons, sponsors, and donations.

EXCITING NEWS: Starting in spring 2025, we will be launching The Generative Museum, a digital initiative that will open ...
10/02/2024

EXCITING NEWS: Starting in spring 2025, we will be launching The Generative Museum, a digital initiative that will open the doors of our galleries virtually as construction continues on our physical space designed by ZGF Architects. We’re excited to partner with the nonprofit arts organization KADIST on this project, and with the artist-run virtual exhibition space EPOCH, whose scenography will help bring our galleries to life in the digital realm. Read more online [link in bio]. Image credits L to R: Yto Barrada, Bus Logo, 2007. Felipe Romera Beltrán Dialect, 2022. Toby Ziegler, The Fifth Quarter, 2005. All images courtesy the artist and Kadist Collection.

Hey! Did you know the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair is coming up Sept 28-29 at the Carnegie Museum of Art? Miller ICA will of...
09/17/2024

Hey! Did you know the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair is coming up Sept 28-29 at the Carnegie Museum of Art? Miller ICA will offer free and discounted rare artist publications you won’t want to miss!

In May, the Miller ICA concluded programming in our former home in the Purnell Center for the Arts and now begins to prepare to open as ICA Pittsburgh in its stunning new space in the RK Mellon Hall of Sciences in 2027.

The PGH Art Book Fair is a great time to get a copy of Miller ICA publications before they’re gone! Come join us Sept. Sat 28 + Sun 29!

Go to and for more details and a full list of incredible participants!

As construction continues on our new home, the Miller ICA has concluded operations in our former space at the Purnell Ce...
09/12/2024

As construction continues on our new home, the Miller ICA has concluded operations in our former space at the Purnell Center for the Arts and is actively planning for our future as ICA Pittsburgh. In this interim period, we will be launching a series of in-person and online initiatives reflecting the innovative, cross-disciplinary spirit that has always guided the ICA.

Check here for more information in the coming weeks!

Have you visited Resonance  Senior exhibit? Visit now through Sat May 11! Gallery hours are Tues. - Sun. 12-6pm
05/03/2024

Have you visited Resonance Senior exhibit? Visit now through Sat May 11! Gallery hours are Tues. - Sun. 12-6pm

We’ll be closed today Thursday May 2 for an internal event. Plan your visit Fri-Sun 12-6pm. Visit Resonance Senior Art e...
05/02/2024

We’ll be closed today Thursday May 2 for an internal event. Plan your visit Fri-Sun 12-6pm. Visit Resonance Senior Art exhibit!

Many thanks to those who took part in last night’s reception for  Senior Art Exhibition “Resonance.” Congratulations to ...
04/27/2024

Many thanks to those who took part in last night’s reception for Senior Art Exhibition “Resonance.” Congratulations to the graduating artists!

The exhibition is on view through May 11. Visit us Tuesday-Sunday, 12-6pm, and use the link in our bio for more information.

Up next: CMU Senior Art Exhibit 2024 Artists: Allina Ai, Minjin Batzorig, Jude Bissonette, Jasmin Cha, Rui Chang, Jean C...
04/11/2024

Up next: CMU Senior Art Exhibit 2024

Artists: Allina Ai, Minjin Batzorig, Jude Bissonette, Jasmin Cha, Rui Chang, Jean Cho, Sarah Cho, Stacey Cho, Ji Hyun Chung, Stella Davis, Mila Fejzo, Laurence Gao, Peiran Ge, Anabelle Kang, Ella Keegan, Ashley Kim, Rebecca Kim, Yeongje Kim, Soomin Kong, Nandini Kuppa-Apte, Janey Lee, Emmanuel Lugo, Takumi Natsume, Erin Park, Eujin Ra, Angela Ren, Chansocphentra Salcido, Peggy Shen, Jennifer Shin, Heejin Son, Grayson Ticer, Zoe Yang, Shelly Zhang

Our final exhibition of the season, the School of Art BFA and Interdisciplinary Art Degree senior show, fills all three floors of the gallery. Students present final artworks and research as the culmination of their undergraduate experience.

Visit the link in our bio for more info!

Today is the last chance to see and experience Second Degree Vision: CMU MFA Thesis Exhibition. Visit the gallery today ...
04/07/2024

Today is the last chance to see and experience Second Degree Vision: CMU MFA Thesis Exhibition. Visit the gallery today from 12-6pm, and join us this evening from 6:30-8pm for our final event as part of work by .ahmad.art

.saxelby

Happy Saturday! Enjoy these lovely words and details captured by  “so that nothing of what you have said may come upon m...
04/06/2024

Happy Saturday! Enjoy these lovely words and details captured by

“so that nothing of what you have said may come upon me”

This space was created in the face of an early midlife crisis. With a perceived lack of direction in life and an abrupt dissolvement of identity, I found myself reflecting on my relationships with religion, spiritualism, agnosticism and artmaking as frameworks to find footing in a reality that feels inconceivable. Recently, I’ve found myself drawn to using different forms of wood in my practice. As a material and entity, wood strangely embodies an aura of lively vigor as much as it feels like a life form that is indeed dead. The thought of feeling like I’m working with corpses has been in the back of my mind for a few years now. Other materials speak to a mental image of an interior, domestic space in which one’s identity is held. My work process has always been intuitive in terms of form, scale and color. What remains constant and identifiable across these works is the form of the cross that continuously asserts itself throughout the space. Overlapping, obscuring and coming in and out of view.

There are allusions to reverence, blasphemy, terror, and confusion. Above it is a search for answers that aren’t necessarily correct but that are at least comforting

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It is the final weekend to experience CMU MFA Exhibition “Second Degree Vision.” Use the link in bio to plan your visit today/tomorrow, 12-6pm!

04/04/2024
Join us THIS EVENING from 5-6:30pm, Miller ICA FL2 for an artist talk with .saxelby and The artist will present her late...
03/28/2024

Join us THIS EVENING from 5-6:30pm, Miller ICA FL2 for an artist talk with .saxelby and

The artist will present her latest installation in Second Degree Vision, entitled Magic Hour, which she developed as an Artist in Residence at the Pittsburgh Glass Center, working in both the kiln shop and hot shop. Georgia’s work combines glass sculptures and video projections to produce liquid, unstable, spellbinding images as light forms that explore dreamworld logics and feminist imaginaries. The artist will discuss the making of this body of work and her research into the role of glass objects in magical fiction, like the crystal ball and magic mirror, that orient their viewer towards non-rational and magical ways of seeing.

About the artist:
Georgia Saxelby is an installation artist whose work explores architectural imaginaries within dreams, fiction, and fairytales. Her thesis installation, Magic Hour, is a series of glass sculptures with video projections that together produce liquid, unstable, spellbinding images as light forms. Leveraging glass’s transparency and optical distortions, the sculptures act simultaneously as image, lens and frame, becoming portal-like devices dispersing shimmering refractions and projected images in an immersive installation. For this body of work, Saxelby has been researching the role of glass objects in magical fiction, like the crystal ball and magic mirror, that orient their viewer towards non-rational ways of seeing and magical modes of consciousness.

First photo: “The House Opposite,” Second photo: “Poikilos (Plume),” and “Poikilos (Shell),” all 2024. Headshot photo credit: Madelyne Cummings

We have several more exciting events coming up as part of our MFA Thesis Exhibition: Second Degree Vision!Join us THIS F...
03/25/2024

We have several more exciting events coming up as part of our MFA Thesis Exhibition: Second Degree Vision!

Join us THIS Friday, March 29, 4:30-6pm [4:30-5pm at Fl.2 of the Miller ICA, walking around CMU Campus] for “Disorienting CMU: A Walking Tour,” as part of work by

Join local data justice advocate Bonnie Fan for a walking tour that activates sites of contention around tech gentrification and carceral violence like the Mon-Oakland autonomous shuttle or the Pittsburgh predictive policing project. Using auto ethnographic reflections and an interactive reworking of public meetings and private dirt, this tour reflects on the community affected locally and abroad by the university’s legacy of research and its labor.

Please come wearing comfortable walking shoes, dressed for outside weather and carry a water bottle if possible!

For additional details about this event and more, visit the link in our bio.

Immense thanks to those who took part in last night’s reception for our MFA Thesis Exhibition: Second Degree Vision!Visi...
03/23/2024

Immense thanks to those who took part in last night’s reception for our MFA Thesis Exhibition: Second Degree Vision!

Visit us Tuesday-Sunday, 12-6pm to encounter a diverse array of multimedia installation, photography, sculpture, and painting. “Second Degree Vision” will be on view at the Miller ICA through April 7.

We will close to the public for event set up 4-6pm. Join us for a reception + performances of Second Degree Vision 6-8pm...
03/22/2024

We will close to the public for event set up 4-6pm. Join us for a reception + performances of Second Degree Vision 6-8pm!

CAPTURED SHOWNEXT Monday, March 25, 5-6pmat the STUDIO, CFA 111This screening features a conversation between Inbar Haga...
03/20/2024

CAPTURED SHOW

NEXT Monday, March 25, 5-6pm
at the STUDIO, CFA 111

This screening features a conversation between Inbar Hagai and Marianne Hoffmeister Castro, moderated by Associate Professor Angela Washko. During the conversation, we’ll delve into the elusive motivations behind rabbit breeding and showing, exploring the human inclination to categorize and strive for perfection.

sally’s helperby Anisha BaidFriday, March 22, 6:15-6:30pmDuring the reception from 6:15-6:30pm, Anisha Baid will perform...
03/20/2024

sally’s helper
by Anisha Baid

Friday, March 22, 6:15-6:30pm

During the reception from 6:15-6:30pm, Anisha Baid will perform her project Sally’s Helper which explores footnotes from the long history of typing as feminized labor.

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Wednesday 12pm - 6pm
Thursday 12pm - 6pm
Friday 12pm - 6pm
Saturday 12pm - 6pm
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