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Noviembre 18
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Noviembre 28
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Deciembre 03
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Deciembre 09

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Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses
On view through February 28
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Zoe Walsh: Gathering
On view through February 28
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Amia Yokoyama: Our Strange Hollows
On view through February 28
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AoA x Hwa Records: Grounding Bodies, Casting Dreams
Septiembre 26 - Noviembre 01
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Speaking in Tongues
Abril 04 - Augusto 23
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Raven Sanchez: Así Sea / So Be It
Abril 04 - Augusto 23
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Semiotext(e): Desert Islands
Abril 04 - Augusto 23
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Feminist Press: Timeline
Noviembre 22, 2025 - Marzo 01, 2025
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Fieldwork Council

Fieldwork Council is comprised of ambassadors and arts advocates who are curious to explore the city and learn from artists and individuals committed to art and social action. Dedicated to supporting the diverse audiences that ICA LA serves, Fieldwork Council members provide annual support for the museum’s Learning and Engagement program which specifically creates access points for exhibitions and also examines more broadly the intersections of art, culture, community, and justice. Inspired by this mission, the Fieldwork Council researches areas such as arts education, programs supporting unhoused communities, the environment, food systems, overlooked Los Angeles histories, transportation, civic engagement and voting rights, and more. Throughout the year, members enjoy a process of engaging with local communities – out in the field – with tours, workshops, and travel with artists, educators, and activists in order to gain insight into the cultural research and fieldwork pedagogy behind ICA LA programs. This one-of-a-kind patron group fosters engagement beyond the museum’s walls and members benefit from an enriched relationship to ICA LA staff, Board, and other patron groups.

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Betsy Greenberg
Tomi-Jean Yaghmai

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Adrienne Adar
Hard Boundaries
Amy Adler
Green Screen
Nick Aguayo
Untitled
Marcel Alcalá
Red Girlie for ICA LA
Alex Anderson
Mirror vessel
Kathryn Andrews
Brain Womb
Carmen Argote
Surrender
Drew Ariana
When the Party's Over
Marlena Arthur
The Color Eyes in Diamonds of Rainbow
Lisa Anne Auerbach
What arises from ashes
Lindsay August-Salazar
Untitled (study for floor slowly turning to sky)
Mario Ayala
Award
Bill Barminski
Man Vs Man
Lyndon Barrois Jr.
A Tale as Old as Time
Gary Baseman
I Can Only Imagine
Math Bass/Eve Fowler
April 2022
Kristin Bauer
Half Truth (pink- a study)
Sula Bermudez-Silverman
Becoming the Mask
Anna Betbeze
Untitled (Puppets)
Chase Biado
Eclipse
Zoe Blue M.
Mirror
Henderson Blumer
Labyrinth (Red)
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One Hundred Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct, 2013. Josh White Photograph. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, we walked with one hundred mules the 240 miles of ditches, pipes and channels that move water from the snow melt of the Eastern Sierra to the city of Los Angeles. The mules were the essential labor force in building this aqueduct. This performative action aimed to reconnect the city of Los Angeles with the source of its water and pay homage to the quiet dignity of the mule and the patient pace of its progress across this epic landscape.
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About the Artist

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.

Jia Yi Gu is an architectural scholar, curator, and designer whose projects explore the materiality of buildings and the history of cultural techniques in architecture. She develops research and curatorial projects, publications, and programs about architecture and its wide-ranging practices. As an architectural historian, her research examines the history of material experimentation by architects with a focus on testing protocols, mock-ups, and experimental infrastructures through which architects explored material processes such as weathering. With Kate Chiu, she co-curated the Getty PST ART project Material Acts, an interdisciplinary exhibition and material library exploring experimentation in design and architecture at the intersections of architecture, craft, and science, presented at Craft Contemporary. For over a decade, she served as director and curator of two small and unusual architecture institutions, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House and Materia ...

Jia Yi Gu is an architectural scholar, curator, and designer whose projects explore the materiality of buildings and the history of cultural techniques in architecture. She develops research and curatorial projects, publications, and programs about architecture and its wide-ranging practices. As an architectural historian, her research examines the history of material experimentation by architects with a focus on testing protocols, mock-ups, and experimental infrastructures through which architects explored material processes such as weathering. With Kate Chiu, she co-curated the Getty PST ART project Material Acts, an interdisciplinary exhibition and material library exploring experimentation in design and architecture at the intersections of architecture, craft, and science, presented at Craft Contemporary. For over a decade, she served as director and curator of two small and unusual architecture institutions, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House and Materials & Applications, a Los Angeles-based project space for experimental architecture. She is Assistant Professor of Architecture in the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts at Harvey Mudd College, co-director of the architecture studio Spinagu, and Board Vice President of the Feminist Center for Creative Work.

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My Barbarian
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Rebecca Morris: 2001-2022
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Barbara T. Smith: Proof
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Scratching at the Moon Exhibition Catalogue
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Scientia Sexualis
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No Wrong Holes - Nayland Blake
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Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses
$60,00
Speaking In Tongues
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Speaking In Tongues
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ICA LA artist @sadiebarnette and her father @rodneybarnette invite you to celebrate their shared birthday on Thursday, October 10 at 7pm @theicala. ‘The New Eagle Creek Saloon’ in the Project Room will open its bar to the public for a night of music and performance within Barnette’s dreamlike reimagining of her father’s family-run business, Eagle Creek Saloon (1990-93) which served a multiracial gay community marginalized by the racist profiling practices in San Francisco at the time. The artist will be in conversation with her father + special guests @djjihaari @gsdmasquerade @redwood_hill 👉 RSVP at theicala.org/calendar 👀Admission is always FREE 🎂🎈💛 #barnettebirthdays #sadiebarnette #rodneybarnette #icala
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Food issues are being explored through the lens of #contemporaryart all this month across our city. CURRENT:LA FOOD transforms 15 public parks with public artworks and events throughout #LosAngeles. Swipe 👉 for artist #MichaelQueenland who will share his efforts to promote the pollination of native plants in #ExpositionPark Rose Garden, a greenhouse in #WestHills presents an alternative model for an #urbanfarm harvesting algae by artist-food company @eat.non.food, join @torolab_org’s #Watts Cookbook Fire-Up & Barbecue workshop in Ted Watkins Memorial Park and Julio César Morales and Max La Rivière-Hedrick’s serves a late-summer party @barnsdallpark (pictured) that recognizes the immigrant cultures of #EastHollywood: Thailand is celebrated ‪on Sunday, October 13th‬ 👀 Please be aware some #CurrentLAFood events this weekend are cancelled due to air quality levels. Follow @current_la for the latest news📍CURRENT:LA FOOD is curated by @theicala’s @asukahisa and #JamillahJames with curatorial committee members Lauren Mackler, Diana Nawi, and Marco Rios | #currentla #icala
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Join us for a morning of coloring and storytime with artist and author Molly Allis on Thursday, October 17 at 11:30am @theicala. Free for families and school groups, @molly.allis will read from their new children’s coloring book, ‘Hooray, What A Day’ - the first bilingual story in the ‘All Together Now!’ series that illustrates a #queer and #inclusive world. It follows Frankie, a non-binary kid, in their intergenerational neighborhood and community of friends. Snacks and refreshments will be provided. RSVP for this week’s Art Babes at theicala.org/calendar 🌈📚💛 #icala
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#TBT to an electric evening of conversation, music and performance at the museum celebrating ICA LA artist @sadiebarnette and her father, @rodneybarnette’s shared birthday on October 10. Visitors joined family and friends of the Barnettes in ‘The New Eagle Creek Saloon’ in the Project Room @theicala with special guests @djjihaari @gsdmasquerade @redwood_hill. Swipe 👉 for highlights from the birthday party 👀 Start your weekend with an #ArtBuzz and join us for a free #happyhour tour of the installation on Friday, October 18 at 5:30pm led by Curatorial Assistant Alex Nicholls @_alexkatt_ and Director of Learning and Engagement @asukahisa - snacks and drinks will be provided 💛 #sadiebarnette #icala
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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

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.

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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

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Installation view, Zoe Walsh: Gathering (detail), Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, September 26, 2026–February 28, 2026. Photo: Jeff McLane/ICA LA

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Installation view, Zoe Walsh: Gathering (detail), Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, September 26, 2026–February 28, 2026. Photo: Jeff McLane/ICA LA

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Installation view, Zoe Walsh: Gathering (detail), Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, September 26, 2026–February 28, 2026. Photo: Jeff McLane/ICA LA

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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

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.

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