Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) opens major exhibitions for Jadé Fadojutimi, Hugh Hayden, and more.
Soho Beach House, 4385 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33140
61 NE 41st Street
Miami, FL 33137
United States
Special exhibitions
Jadé Fadojutimi: Yet, Another Pathetic Fallacy
November 30, 2021–April 17, 2022
The first solo museum presentation for this fresh voice in painting, Yet, Another Pathetic Fallacy by Jadé Fadojutimi features a suite of new, layered large-scale paintings created for the exhibition, alongside a range of existing works—providing a comprehensive snapshot of the artist’s trajectory to date. Representative of a new generation that is reinvigorating abstraction, Fadojutimi cites and updates the key art historical elements of the 20th century—grids, webs, transparency and layering, and the mixing of disparate kinds of mark-making—to suggest processes or elements that are in exalted search for their final forms, blossoming, or in movement. Her complex images, which use a surprising and electric color palette, can suggest plants and garlands, microscopic activity, marine landscapes, or stained-glass windows, lingering at the cusp of abstraction and figuration, landscape and object.
Hugh Hayden: Boogey Men
November 30, 2021–April 17, 2022
Hugh Hayden: Boogey Men features a suite of monumental new works created for the occasion and debuting at ICA Miami. In his innovative work across mediums, Hayden creates anthropomorphic forms that explore our relationship with the natural world. Formally trained as an architect, Hayden deploys laborious processes—selecting, carving, fabricating—resulting in dynamic, surreal, and critical responses to personal experience and social and cultural issues.
Ground floor exhibitions
Ellen Lesperance: Amazonknights
November 30, 2021–March 27, 2022
Ellen Lesperance’s exhibition Amazonknights presents a selection of new and existing paintings and two new sculptures that pay homage to feminist activism. Inspired by actions of protest that have shaped the twentieth century, the artist plumbs historical footage and photographs, sourcing images of protesters’ hand-knitted garments and translating them into paintings and sculptures.
Shuvinai Ashoona
November 30, 2021–May 1, 2022
ICA Miami presents Shuvinai Ashoona: Drawings, the artist’s first US museum presentation featuring a series of enigmatic drawings and prints observing the evolution of indigenous life. Using a series of dynamic formal resources, from a foreshortened perspective and uncanny aerial views to mismatching scales and mise-en-scène, her often large and strange drawings and meticulously worked prints focus on the people around her and Arctic life as it has shifted from living off the land to settled communities.
Harold Mendez: And, perhaps, here, between
November 30, 2021–May 1, 2022
ICA Miami is proud to present “And, perhaps, here, between” by artist and sculptor Harold Mendez. A first-generation American of Colombian and Mexican descent, Mendez’s work engages the long arc of hemispheric history, from ancestral cosmologies to the diasporic knowledges that form such an important part of New World cultures. Working in photography, sculpture, and installation, Mendez’s objects explore cultural memory, ritual, and transnational experiences.
Digital Commissions 2020–21: ...what endures...
November 30, 2021–March 27, 2022
In Spring 2020, in response to the global pandemic and the resulting shutdown of our physical galleries, ICA Miami initiated a series of digital commissions to stimulate and support artistic production in Miami and beyond. The resulting works were conceived independently by sixteen invited artists, yet this unprecedented moment provides a rich and urgent context in which to ask how we connect to the works and to one another. Collectively, these works engage with themes of identity, community, social justice, and a changing natural environment.
Stairwell
Anthea Hamilton
November 30, 2021–November 1, 2022
Anthea Hamilton presents a newly commissioned work for ICA Miami’s central stairwell. Working across installation, assemblage, sculpture, and performance, Hamilton reflects on the pleasures and politics of looking as they connect found imagery and narratives. Hamilton’s immersive installations often play with scale and proportion, while referencing architecture, fashion, and popular culture.
