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Director of Development
The Director of Development is responsible for planning, developing, directing, and executing a comprehensive and successful fundraising program for the museum, consistent with ICA LA’s mission, vision, and goals. This position reports directly to the Executive Director.
As a key member of the senior staff, the Director of Development will provide active, collaborative leadership in conceiving and articulating fundraising strategies, programs, and goals to raise the museum’s annual operating budget, as well as supporting fundraising aspects of ICA LA’s capital campaign to advance the museum’s long-term strategic priorities. The Director of Development will integrate advancement efforts with all museum functions, including exhibition and education programming, financial administration, membership programs, and communications. Key priorities are expanding ICA LA’s donor base—with a particular focus on direct cultivation and solicitation of individual donors, identifying and cultivating the next generation of major donors; expanding support through institutional and corporate giving; and increasing brand recognition and revenue goals for the museum’s benefit events.
The Director of Development also oversees ICA LA’s giving councils— Fieldwork Council and Curator’s Council—and its membership program. The Director of Development manages and motivates a team of development staff who are responsible for individual giving, institutional giving, corporate sponsorship, fundraising events, membership, and database management. The ideal candidate for this job will be an accomplished fundraiser and leader who is passionate about contemporary art; deeply knowledgeable about the philanthropic communities in Los Angeles, and beyond, and major foundations that support art and culture; and skilled at making a strong case for both restricted and unrestricted support.
Teresa Baker (b. 1985, Watford City, North Dakota) is an artist living and working in Montana, and an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes in the Great Plains. Through a mixed media practice combining artificial and natural materials together, Baker creates abstracted landscapes that explore vast space, and how we move, see, and explore within them. The materials, texture, shapes, and color relationships are guided by Baker’s Mandan/Hidatsa culture. In her practice, Baker imbues innate objects with culture and identity.
Baker has had recent solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis; American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; de boer, Los Angeles; Broadway Gallery, New York; The Arts Club of Chicago; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art; Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton; Pied-à-terre, San Francisco; and The Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont. She was one of the featured artists in the Prospect. 6 Triennial, New Orleans, LA, and has participated in group exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The Wattis Institute, San Francisco; Ballroom Marfa; and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City.
Baker was a 2025 Guggenheim fellow, a 2022 Joan Mitchell Fellow, and the recipient of the 2020 Native American Fellowship for Visual Artists at the Ucross Foundation. Baker was a Tournesol Artist-in-Residence at The Headlands Center for the Arts, and participated in artist residencies at FOGO Island Arts in Newfoundland, and MacDowell in New Hampshire. The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Portland Museum of Art, Maine have recently acquired the artist’s work. Baker received her MFA from California College of the Arts and her BA from Fordham University.
Alberto Keossian is an interdisciplinary artist and arts practitioner based in Los Angeles, with over a decade of combined experience in arts administration, program development, and community engagement. Rooted in a fascination with the dynamics of human interaction and meaning-making, his artistic practice explores the intimate complexities of interconnectivity and what emerges through collective experience. These inquiries extend into his work as a practitioner, where he curates and develops collaborative, engagement-driven initiatives that foster meaningful connections between art, cultural institutions, and the communities they serve. He currently serves as the Learning and Engagement Coordinator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Founding Co-Director of MOTOR, and Membership Engagement Board Member of Museum Educators of Southern California. Alberto holds a BA from UCLA and has exhibited, curated, and programmed throughout the greater Los Angeles area.
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Getting here
By Car: The ICA LA is accessible by the 5 and 101 freeways at Seventh Street, and 10 freeway at Santa Fe Ave.
Parking: Free onsite parking is available at ICA LA (during normal operating hours). Usage of our parking lot is permitted only for the duration of your visit.
Street and lot parking near the ICA LA is limited. Additional paid parking is available across the street, and behind the museum at the AVA Arts District apartments. View the ICA LA Parking Map for parking options.
Transit and Cycling: We strongly encourage the use of ride-sharing services, public transit, or cycling. To plan your trip by public transit, use Metro Trip Planner.
Some suggested routes: MTA bus lines 60, 62, and 720 at 7th/Decatur, or 16, 18, 53, 62, or 720 bus lines at 6th/Central. MTA Gold line at Little Tokyo/Arts District (followed by a 1.2 mile walk south on Alameda or 4 min. car ride)
Cyclists, plan your visit to ICA LA using LADOT or Metro bike maps. Metro Bike Share is also a great way to get around downtown.
Language Access
Please visit the front desk to access our large-print English and Spanish exhibition guides during any part of your visit. Additional exhibition support in ASL is available on our Youtube Channel.
All exhibition introductory texts are shows in English and Spanish.
What to expect
Check out our Exhibitions to learn about what is currently on view in the galleries, and our Calendar to learn about upcoming free public programs.
Code of conduct
Visitors and staff are encouraged to stay home if they are feeling sick with a fever, cough, or respiratory illness. Hand sanitizer is available at the entrance and front desk. We encourage you to leave large bags at home. Children must be supervised by an adult at all times.
We condemn violence, bullying, or hate speech based on race, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or ability. Any inappropriate behavior will not be tolerated at ICA LA and we reserve the right to ask patrons to leave the premises.
We look forward to welcoming you to ICA LA and ensuring a safe, enjoyable visit for our patrons. Our staff is here to help and respond to any questions or concerns you may have. Enjoy your visit!
Accessibility
ICA LA’s building has one ADA parking space available directly in front of the museum, please call (213) 928-0833 to reserve if needed. Our entrance, restrooms, lobby, and exhibition spaces are all wheelchair accessible.
For accommodations for any public program, call (213) 928-0833 to speak with our front desk.
Please note that some works on view may contain loud noise, flashing lights, low lighting, or other elements.
Contact us
Address: 1717 E 7th St Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: (213) 928-0833 Email: info@theicala.org
Curatorial: exhibition@theicala.org Education: learning@theicala.org
Hwa Records is a collective of Korean diasporic artists and healers—Roger Kim, Saewon Oh, C. Ryu, and Kayla Tange—exploring Hwa 화 - which translates and mistranslates to fire, anger, repressed emotions, flower, and vase.
Since 2021, the mission of Hwa Records is to create community space for diasporic Koreans to gather and process stresses from generational displacement through workshops and performances. Developed in response to the lack of cultural frameworks for addressing emotional needs, Hwa Records creates a safe space for participants to process and release ancestral hwa through communal, cathartic, somatic and creative practices. This task is vital to rupturing the cycle of history, to exorcising ghosts, and building a livable future.
Hwa Records has performed at the Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, Blue Ribbon Garden at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and has received funding from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Studio for Creative Inquiry and more.
Public Programs
Public programs at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles support our mission in sparking the pleasure the discovery and challenging the way we see and experience the world, ourselves, and each other.
You can also watch and listen to past lectures, discussions, and performances in the archive of public programs below..
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Installation view, Zoe Walsh: Gathering, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, September 26, 2026–February 28, 2026. Photo: Jeff McLane/ICA LA
Installation view, Zoe Walsh: Gathering (detail), Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, September 26, 2026–February 28, 2026. Photo: Jeff McLane/ICA LA
Installation view, Zoe Walsh: Gathering (detail), Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, September 26, 2026–February 28, 2026. Photo: Jeff McLane/ICA LA
Installation view, Zoe Walsh: Gathering (detail), Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, September 26, 2026–February 28, 2026. Photo: Jeff McLane/ICA LA
Installation view, Zoe Walsh: Gathering, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, September 26, 2026–February 28, 2026. Photo: Jeff McLane/ICA LA
Hwa Records is a collective of Korean diasporic artists and healers—Roger Kim, Kayla Tange, Saewon Oh, and C. Ryu—exploring Hwa 화 - which translates and mistranslates to fire, anger, repressed emotions, flower, and vase.
The mission of Hwa Records is to create community space for diasporic Koreans to gather and process stresses from generational displacement. Developed in response to the rise of anti-Asian violence and the lack of cultural frameworks for addressing specific emotional needs, Hwa Records creates a safe space for participants to process and release ancestral Hwa through communal, cathartic, and creative practices.
Hwa Records has performed at the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, Blue Ribbon Garden at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and has received funding from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Studio for Creative Inquiry and more.