Institute of Contemporary Art San Jose

Institute of Contemporary Art San Jose The ICA San José is an energetic art space located in downtown San Jose dedicated to making contemp Today, we remain dedicated to that vision. Admission is free.
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The ICA was founded in 1980 by a group of local artists who wanted to present cutting-edge, innovative art and experimental work in a curated space. Their goal was to get out in front of traditional museum programming and to present the newest work being created in the region. The mission of the ICA is to encourage creativity by presenting and interpreting thought-provoking contemporary art to a d

iverse audience. We are uniquely positioned between the area’s large museums and smaller galleries, which allows us to present the work of established regional artists, while also offering exhibition opportunities for emerging and under-recognized mid-career artists. Donations welcomed. Each year the ICA presents 10 – 12 visual art exhibitions in our three galleries that feature drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, and digital works addressing a range of subjects and themes. The ICA Lounge is a contemporary art library located at the entrance of the gallery that provides access to materials that directly complement our exhibitions and programs, including international art journals, exhibition catalogs, artists’ monographs, and multimedia education resources. The Lounge also features video interviews with exhibiting artists, as well as recorded footage of ICA workshops and discussions. Our educational programming includes Talking Art panel discussions, outstanding printed and web-based exhibition didactics, publications, free exhibition tours and excursions, as well as artist studio and gallery visits and field trips offered as exclusive membership benefits.

Have you met Tachiya Bryant our current Social Media Manager? Tachiya is responsible for all media-related marketing and...
12/27/2023

Have you met Tachiya Bryant our current Social Media Manager?

Tachiya is responsible for all media-related marketing and content on all of our social platforms. She has dedicated her 2023 to finding new and exciting ways to engage with our community.

Have you met our Membership and Development Assistant Haley Kerrigan? If you are signed up for our mailing list, you hav...
12/27/2023

Have you met our Membership and Development Assistant Haley Kerrigan?

If you are signed up for our mailing list, you have probably received an email or two from Haley. Aside from newsletters, Haley is in charge of all of our membership related tasks. ICA thanks Haley for her hard work and dedication to elevating our institution this year.

Thanks for joining us for the curator-led tour last night. Zoë Latzer carefully curates all of the exhibitions for ICA. ...
12/15/2023

Thanks for joining us for the curator-led tour last night. Zoë Latzer carefully curates all of the exhibitions for ICA. We hope you feel the same way every time you come in. As we celebrate the year coming to an end, we would also like to celebrate our wonderful staff!

Stay tuned for upcoming holiday hours and end of year recaps.

Since our halls are already decked with Adia and Heesoo, we’re doing Christmas Cards! Stop by ICA and spread some holida...
11/29/2023

Since our halls are already decked with Adia and Heesoo, we’re doing Christmas Cards! Stop by ICA and spread some holiday spirit at our workshop with music provided by .

Members Only: Curator-Led Tour of Fall ExhibitionsPlease join us Thursday, December 14th, 6-7pm, for a tour of Adia Mill...
11/27/2023

Members Only: Curator-Led Tour of Fall Exhibitions

Please join us Thursday, December 14th, 6-7pm, for a tour of Adia Millett, Wisdom Keepers, and Heesoo Kwon, Leymusoom Garden: Following Naked Dancing and Long Dreaming. This tour will be led by Zoë Latzer, Curator and Director of Public Programs at ICA San Jose.

RSVP through Paperless Post. For any questions, please contact Haley Kerrigan [email protected]

We’re wishing you a restful holiday season. See you next week for normal business hours.
11/21/2023

We’re wishing you a restful holiday season. See you next week for normal business hours.

Leymusoom Garden, explores the Korean shamanistic worldview: the Dokkaebi folk myth (Korean: 도깨비), the Mago creator myth...
11/15/2023

Leymusoom Garden, explores the Korean shamanistic worldview: the Dokkaebi folk myth (Korean: 도깨비), the Mago creator myth, Skywoman myth, Kwon’s female ancestors, and her community from the Leymusoom Collective and the D**g Ji Collective. The exhibition emulates the garden at her maternal grandparents' home in Gongju-si, South Korea and the land she currently lives on in the unceded Ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone people. The garden becomes a sanctuary for Kwon to confront generational trauma by collecting oral histories from elders, clearing out the weeds of past traumas, and sowing new seeds that will flourish.

Photo Credit: Heesoo Kwon, Leymusoom Garden: Following Naked Dancing and Long Dreaming, 2023, ICA San José.

Thanks for hanging out with us at our annual benefit. Keep an eye out for a link on the rest of the photos provided by  ...
11/14/2023

Thanks for hanging out with us at our annual benefit. Keep an eye out for a link on the rest of the photos provided by !

The auction was a success last night. Thank you to our community for showing up and generously invested in our mission. ...
11/05/2023

The auction was a success last night. Thank you to our community for showing up and generously invested in our mission. More photos to come!

Here’s the party schedule for the weekend. The celebration starts tonight with our artist mixer. We can’t wait to see yo...
11/03/2023

Here’s the party schedule for the weekend. The celebration starts tonight with our artist mixer. We can’t wait to see you

Title: Mago Leymusoom IIIArtist: Heesoo KwonDetails: Framed lenticular print, 24.5 x 14 in Edition 1 of 2 + 1AP Heesoo K...
11/03/2023

Title: Mago Leymusoom III
Artist: Heesoo Kwon

Details: Framed lenticular print, 24.5 x 14 in Edition 1 of 2 + 1AP

Heesoo Kwon is a multidisciplinary artist from South Korea currently based in the Bay Area, California. In 2017, Kwon initiated an autobiographical feminist religion Leymusoom as an ever-evolving framework to explore her family histories and communal feminist liberation. Kwon received a Business degree from Ewha Woman’s University (BA, 2015) and received the Female Inventor of the Year Award from the Korean Intellectual Property Office in 2012. After realizing herself as a product of Korean patriarchal society and the misogynist commercial field, she started to make art to shed the burden as a Korean woman and redesign her q***r feminist life.

Title: Buckeye ButterflyArtist: Kara MariaMedium: Acrylic on wood, 24”x18”Maria received her BA and MFA from the Univers...
11/02/2023

Title: Buckeye Butterfly
Artist: Kara Maria
Medium: Acrylic on wood, 24”x18”

Maria received her BA and MFA from the University of California, Berkeley. She has exhibited work in solo and group shows throughout the United States at venues including the de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, CA; the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA; the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; and the Katonah Museum of Art in New York.

Title: The FoolArtist: Gina M. Contreras Medium: Acrylic and gouache on canvas, 16”x20”Born in Fresno, California, Gina ...
11/01/2023

Title: The Fool
Artist: Gina M. Contreras
Medium: Acrylic and gouache on canvas, 16”x20”

Born in Fresno, California, Gina M. Contreras incorporates drawing and painting to examine the complexity of traditional and cultural standards. Contreras uses self-portraits to embrace the narrative between her conventional Chicana upbringing and her admiration for modern lowbrow culture of self-awareness and body acceptance. In 2008 she received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been exhibited throughout the US and internationally. She currently lives and works in San Francisco.

Click the link in our bio to place an order bid on The Fool or catch it on display November 4th.

Title: Hyakki Yagyō (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons), Plasterwall Ghost and Violet Prayer Beads (2023)Artist: Masako...
10/31/2023

Title: Hyakki Yagyō (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons), Plasterwall Ghost and Violet Prayer Beads (2023)
Artist: Masako Miki
Watercolor on paper, 14 x 11 inches

“These empowering and enigmatic characters are populated in the context of the traditional motif of Hyakki Yagyō (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons), in which demons, spirits, and monsters roam the streets of Japan by night. The night parade is essentially their protest march as these characters are societal neglect in folklore. They serve as metaphors for the struggle for individuality, equity, and respect in a world filled with systemic challenges and prejudices.”
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This piece is available for bidding now until this weekend.

Letterlocked (2022) Artist: Sarah Hotchkiss 16”x16” flashe on panelSarah Hotchkiss is a San Francisco artist and arts wr...
10/30/2023

Letterlocked (2022)
Artist: Sarah Hotchkiss
16”x16” flashe on panel

Sarah Hotchkiss is a San Francisco artist and arts writer. Recent exhibitions include ‘Altered Perception,’ a three-person show at the ICA San José; a two-person show at Marrow Gallery, San Francisco; a solo show at Friends Indeed, San Francisco; and group shows at OCHI Projects, Los Angeles; Best Practice, San Diego; Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco; and Guerrero Gallery, Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in the San Francisco Arts Commission’s public art program and she has attended residencies at Skowhegan, ACRE, KHN Center for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. In 2023, she published ‘High Contrast,’ an artist book of high-contrast paintings with Colpa Press, San Francisco. From 2020 to 2023, she co-ran an exhibition space on a 6-by-12-foot billboard in the Inner Sunset called Premiere Jr. She is a senior associate editor for KQED Arts & Culture.

Letterlocked is available for purchase now through our Clickbid link.

“While matters of aesthetics are often thought to be apolitical, the act of a Black artist making non-representational a...
10/29/2023

“While matters of aesthetics are often thought to be apolitical, the act of a Black artist making non-representational art during times of crisis has historically been viewed as anti-political, as when orthodoxies imposed by the Black Arts Movement during the Civil Rights era ultimately triggered a backlash against the notion that art should serve only political purposes.” - .roth

Thank you for a powerful and thorough review of the Wisdom Keepers exhibition David. Congratulations the praise is well deserved. Read the full write up in our bio or copy the link here: https://www.squarecylinder.com/2023/10/adia-millett-a-warrior-for-beauty-and-black-culture/

Title: Object of Intrigue: Wizen (2023)Artist: Stephanie Metz15x15” Wool on PaperStephanie Metz was raised in the Califo...
10/28/2023

Title: Object of Intrigue: Wizen (2023)
Artist: Stephanie Metz
15x15” Wool on Paper

Stephanie Metz was raised in the California Bay Area and received her BFA from the University of Oregon; she lives with her techie husband and two sons in San Jose. In January 2020 she debuted her first solo museum show Stephanie Metz: InTouch at the de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University. She has been featured in San Jose's Content Magazine, Adobe Inspire Magazine, American Craft and 500 Felt Objects. Her work has exhibited internationally in the Rijswijk Textile Biennial in the Netherlands, and Sculptural Felt International and Black Sheep, each touring the United Kingdom.

“Object of Intrigue: Wizen” is available for purchase at our annual benefit auction.

Title: The Butler’s in Love (2001) Artist: Mark Stock22”x 16 Print “Mark Stock's [1951-2014] paintings connect viewers t...
10/26/2023

Title: The Butler’s in Love (2001)
Artist: Mark Stock
22”x 16 Print

“Mark Stock's [1951-2014] paintings connect viewers to the euphoria, loneliness and sometimes fatal entanglements of romance. Often melodramatic and tinged with irony, Stock's images illustrate love's power to provoke our best, and most illicit, behavior. A well-dressed vo**ur peeks past the curtain of a mansion window, silent and intent on the object of his desire. Picnicking lovers look into each other's eyes. An attractive woman smokes a cigarette as she sits next to a man's co**se, which has been rolled neatly in a carpet, ready for disposal. A butler steals a moment to treasure lipstick left on a glass by the woman who employs him. Stock's paintings tell the story of each character with remarkable subtlety and, in many cases, with humor. Stock is, after all, a master of the realist style, and he uses color, shadow and line to amazing effect. Details in facial expression, body language and background tell you there's more going on here than rapture, scandal and dangerous liaisons. These paintings keep you coming back for another look, for clues to life's telling moments” -

This gorgeous print will be available for purchase at the 43rd annual ICA auction November 4th. For a fuller look at the selected works, make sure to keep an eye out for the Clickbid link coming later today.

Title: Goldfinch with TrillArtist: Diane Andrews Hall7.75”x7.75” Oil on canvas mounted on wood panel“Diane Andrews Hall ...
10/25/2023

Title: Goldfinch with Trill
Artist: Diane Andrews Hall
7.75”x7.75” Oil on canvas mounted on wood panel

“Diane Andrews Hall was born in Dallas, Texas in 1945 and lives in San Francisco, California. She studied art at Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans and received her M.F.A. from the Hoffberger School of Painting at The Maryland Institute of Art. For over two decades she has been featured in more than two dozen solo and group exhibitions, primarily in New York and California. During the 1970s, Hall was a part of T.R.Uthco, a multi-media performance art collective based in San Francisco.”-

“Goldfinch with Trill” will be available for purchase at our 43rd annual auction next Saturday.

Title: "Do you like to look at the puddle?'Artist: Natalya Burd 13”x13” acrylic on plexiglassBurd has camped and hikedin...
10/24/2023

Title: "Do you like to look at the puddle?'
Artist: Natalya Burd
13”x13” acrylic on plexiglass

Burd has camped and hiked
in national parks, forests, preserves and wilderness areas throughout the United States, sites that inspired her recent immersive installations. Featuring hand-painted imagery on colored plexiglass mounted to reflective mirrors, her constructions envelop her viewers in a shimmering atmosphere, evoking the transience of human experience against the enduring natural world.

Born in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Burd emigrated to the United States in 1996. She holds Master of Fine Arts degrees from the University of Washington, Seattle (1999) and the Moscow Academy of Art and Industrial Design in Moscow, Russia (1996). Burd has lived and worked in the Bay Area for the past twenty years while exhibiting nationally and internationally.

“Do you like to look at the puddle?” will be available November 4th for purchase.

Title: The Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, December 23, 2013Artist: Binh Danh11”x12.5” Dag...
10/23/2023

Title: The Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, December 23, 2013
Artist: Binh Danh
11”x12.5” Daguerreotype, Unique

Binh Danh reconfigures traditional photographic techniques and processes in unconventional ways to delve into the connection between history, identity, and place. Danh is noted for his contemporary daguerreotypes of national parks. Their reflective surfaces enable people of all backgrounds to see themselves as a part of the beauty of the American landscape. His work has been collected by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the San Jose Museum of Art, among others. He is an associate professor of art at San José State University.

Thank you everyone for attending the Wisdom Keepers Exhibition Tour and Sound Healing. Activating that space was an incr...
10/22/2023

Thank you everyone for attending the Wisdom Keepers Exhibition Tour and Sound Healing. Activating that space was an incredible experience, and we were happy to share it with you.

What did you think? If you would like to let us know, we encourage you to take the survey. The link is in our bio!

Title: Fragmented Saffron CrocusArtist: Pantea Karimi22”x17” Hand printed Marbling and gold paint on paperPantea Karimi ...
10/22/2023

Title: Fragmented Saffron Crocus
Artist: Pantea Karimi

22”x17” Hand printed Marbling and gold paint on paper

Pantea Karimi has lived, studied, and worked in Iran, the UK, and the US and presently resides in San Jose, California. Karimi’s works are held in private and public collections at Stanford University, the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of California, Davis, and have been featured in several publications and media in Iran, Italy, Croatia, the UK, and the United States including two interviews with the KQED (2020&2022). Her prints and digital works have been exhibited in diverse solo, group, and traveling exhibitions in Iran, Algeria, Germany, Croatia, Mexico, the UK, and the United States.

Fragmented Saffron Crocus will be available for purchase November 4th.

Title: SortArtist: Susie Taylor 29”x29” WeavingSusie Taylor (b.1967) combines her background in Art, Design and Craft to...
10/20/2023

Title: Sort
Artist: Susie Taylor
29”x29” Weaving

Susie Taylor (b.1967) combines her background in Art, Design and Craft to create abstract and dimensional textiles. She also collaborates with industry to produce modern, functional textiles that reflect the influence of the Bauhaus on her practice.
She received her BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and her MA from UCLA
She has exhibited her work in the US and in international fiberart and contemporary textile biennials in China and Ukraine. Recent exhibitions include Origin Stories at Johansson Projects, Pushing the Limits, A Virtual Shaft Weaving Art Exhibition, Stitch at Andrea Schwartz Gallery, Material Meaning: A Living Legacy of Anni Albers at Craft in America Center, Fiber Art-100 Years of Bauhaus at Art Ventures Gallery and The Fabric of Representation in San Francisco.

“Sort” will be available for purchase in our 2023 ICA Benefit Auction

Title: Colonizer's TeardropAdia Millett18”x24” Acrylic and Paper on WoodAdia Millett (b. 1975, lives and works in Oaklan...
10/19/2023

Title: Colonizer's Teardrop
Adia Millett
18”x24” Acrylic and Paper on Wood

Adia Millett (b. 1975, lives and works in Oakland, CA) received her BFA from the University of California, Berkeley, and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, and is an alumnus of the prestigious Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program. She has completed residencies at the Studio Museum of Harlem (2002); Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (2007); School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s ThreeWalls Residency (2010); Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL (2015); and the Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA (2018). In 2021, Millett was awarded the Anonymous Was A Woman Award.

Colonizer’s Tears will be available for purchase at our annual benefit auction.

“In Leymusoom Garden, dreamscapes that the women move through bend the rules of gravity even as their bodies hold onto t...
10/18/2023

“In Leymusoom Garden, dreamscapes that the women move through bend the rules of gravity even as their bodies hold onto the sculptural weight and heft of actual flesh and bone.” -


Congratulations and on the Metro write up! Thank you for the detailed article. We are honored!

Click the link in the bio or paste the link to read more: https://www.metrosiliconvalley.com/leymusoom-garden-and-the-goddess/

Recap of our member's tour last Saturday in SF!
10/12/2023

Recap of our member's tour last Saturday in SF!

Title: The Judgement of Paris, 2nd EditionArtist: Kiana Honarmand29”x21” Mixed Media: Inkjet Print, Acrylic, Wood, Spray...
10/12/2023

Title: The Judgement of Paris, 2nd Edition
Artist: Kiana Honarmand
29”x21” Mixed Media: Inkjet Print, Acrylic, Wood, Spray Paint

Kiana Honarmand is an Iranian-born artist whose work delves into the complexities of her cultural identity, the violation of women's rights in Iran, censorship, surveillance, and the Western perception of the SWANA identity. In 2012, she relocated to the United States to pursue a Master of Fine Arts degree at Penn State University. Currently residing and working in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, Kiana's art has been exhibited in numerous renowned venues both nationally and internationally.

The Judgement of Paris will be available for purchase at our 43rd annual auction.

Moving Fast (Study)(2021) Photo Collage on Panel21 x 14.75”Kathryn Dunlevie has always been intrigued by spatial and tem...
10/12/2023

Moving Fast (Study)
(2021) Photo Collage on Panel
21 x 14.75”

Kathryn Dunlevie has always been intrigued by spatial and temporal inconsistencies, and by every individual’s particular and shifting sense of what is real. Fragmenting, reassembling and layering images, she suggests the fluidity of space and time and the complex psychologies of the entities she portrays.

Born in Atlanta, Dunlevie lived in six different states by the time she was 12, and in Paraguay when she was 16. She has a B.A. in fine arts from Rice University and studied art history and film at the University of Paris, painting at California College of the Arts, and photography in Madrid.

Moving Fast will be available for purchase at ICA’s 43rd annual auction.

Gale Antokal, Cascade 11.11.21 (2021)Acrylic Ink on Synthetic Paper29 x 23"Courtesy of Artist and Dolby Chadwick Gallery...
10/10/2023

Gale Antokal, Cascade 11.11.21 (2021)
Acrylic Ink on Synthetic Paper
29 x 23"
Courtesy of Artist and Dolby Chadwick Gallery

Gale Antokal was born in New York, New York, and received her BFA (1980) and MFA from the California College of the Arts in 1984. She is a Professor Emeritus at San Jose State University in the Department of Art and Art History. Antokal held several visiting artist positions and teaching positions including the San Francisco Art Institute, Instructor of Art History at the Lehrhaus Institute, and the American College in Jerusalem. She was an affiliate faculty member in the JSSItaly program in Civita Castellana, Italy in 2015. In 1992 Antokal received a Visual Arts Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is represented by Seager-Gray Gallery in Mill Valley, CA, the Tayloe Piggott Gallery in Jackson, WY, and Amy Simon Fine Arts in Westport Connecticut. Her work is included in public, private and international collections.

Now in its 43rd year, the highly anticipated 2023 Annual Benefit Art Auction at the Institute of Contemporary Art San José offers unique opportunities for art enthusiasts and collectors to view and acquire contemporary artwork by rising stars and celebrated artists whose work reflects vibrant, eclectic styles and interests. All proceeds fund the ICA’s innovative exhibitions and educational programming, making sure that admission is always free for all, and expanding the ICA’s reach and impact.

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