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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.
Amia Yokoyama is a multimedia Los Angeles-based artist whose process explores the negotiations between metamorphosis, hybridity, the collisions of the virtual and physical selves, and inevitable moments of transformation and breakdown. She received her MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2017. Amia has exhibited her work at the Armory Center for the Arts, Sebastian Gladstone Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); Jeffrey Deitch Gallery (New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA); The Craft Contemporary Museum (Los Angeles, CA); In Lieu Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); The Japanese American Cultural Center (Los Angeles, CA); The Brand Art Center (Los Angeles, CA); Deli Gallery (Mexico City, MX); The Drawing Center (New York, NY); Anthology Film Archive (New York, NY); and more.
Nizhóní Begay (she/her) is Diné and Quechua from Tucson, AZ with roots in San Antonio and now based in Los Angeles. She is the Programming + Communications Coordinator at The Chapter House. Nizhóní is also the Event and Grant Manager at the Lindy Waters III Foundation where she supports the Foundation’s work and leads the College Prep mentorship program for Native youth. She also does the communications for the Sage-Based Wisdom podcast with Indigenous comedians Jana Schmieding and Brian Bahe. Previously, she worked for four years at the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, where she graduated with a degree in Political Science and minors in Music and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. In 2020, she was awarded the Award of Excellence from the Stanford Alumni Association, recognizing the top 10% of her class for leadership, service, and extraordinary Stanford spirit. In her free time, Nizhóní loves to attend Star Wars conventions.
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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
This program is being held offsite at The Philosophical Research Society, located at 3910 Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027. Please note, capacity is limited to 50 people. RSVP is required.
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..
Shared Practices:
A Framework for Presenting Performance in Visual Art Contexts
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Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA) is proud to announce the next work in its Artist Edition series by renowned artist Andrea Fraser. Fraser is a groundbreaking artist, a passionate educator, and a respected member of ICA LA’s Board of Directors and Artist Advisory Council.
Fraser is widely regarded as one of the most influential and provocative artists of her generation, with a practice that has defined the art historical arena we know as institutional critique. With pathos and humor, poetry and incisive analysis, her works investigate and confront the systems and practices that structure our social, cultural, and political institutions. For over four decades, Fraser has moved fluidly across the mediums of performance, video, text, and a range of other forms, to analyze and intervene in the contexts in which art is produced, consumed, and distributed. Exploring the intimate entanglement of financial, reputational, and emotional motivations among artists, curators, collectors, gallerists, art audiences, and patrons, she challenges us to consider the conflicting investments that haunt our engagement with art.
In her performance and video works, Fraser has taken up a range of art world roles in order to embody and enact the motivations that often define them. Originally performed live at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and then adapted for film in 1989, Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk features Fraser as a museum docent delivering a script composed entirely of quotations from museum publications and other sources. Uprooting descriptions of art works and applying them randomly to other art and non-art objects, Fraser highlights the values imbedded in the often grandiose language of museums. Juxtaposing descriptions of art object to descriptions of people of different classes, including herself, Fraser performs the social and emotional stakes of the legitimacy offered by museums.
Based on a now-iconic photograph of a memorable stop on her Museum Highlights tour at a drinking foundation, Fraser’s ICA LA edition is a rendering of the artist’s silhouette captured in a dramatic gesture. At ICA LA, the edition is fittingly on view next to the water fountain, but collectors can install the silhouette in locations of their choosing—next to a favorite artwork in their home or to something as mundane as a kitchen appliance. Activated as such, the work can stage a dialogue with an array of objects, sites, or architectural details, complicating perceptions of value and challenging the boundaries between artist and audience, artwork and display.