MIAMI, FLA.- ICA Miami announced its spring 2024 season of exhibitions, demonstrating the museum’s commitment to expanding the artistic canon by highlighting important emerging and under-recognized practices. Solo exhibitions for artists Zilia Sánchez and Huguette Caland, whose influence span traditions, and decades, are presented alongside the first solo museum exhibition for Miami-based artist Rose Marie Cromwell.
On the occasion of the museum’s 10th anniversary, ICA Miami also features major presentations of works from ICA Miami’s permanent collection. Comprising seminal works alongside new commissions, this exhibition underscores ICA Miami’s role as one of the most compelling collecting institutions for contemporary art in the United States and globally.
Denzil Hurley: In Praise of Use:
April 5-September 29, 2024
This exhibition brings together seven paintings from Hurley’s “Glyph” series (2012–20), one of the artist’s last body of works. A glyph is a nonverbal graphic representation, like a hieroglyph or a pictograph that employs the mark’s shape as part of its meaning. For Hurley, the glyph served as a metaphor to think of his paintings as integral forms whose meaning comes together only from their internal relations. Refusing throughout his career to rely on spatial illusion and figuration, Hurley’s paintings are stoic and matter-of-fact objects that highlight the very elements out of which they are made—color, shape, surface, and the way in which the time of their production is registered.
Rose Marie Cromwell: A Geological Survey
April 5 - October 27, 2024
The first solo museum exhibition for the Miami-based photo and video artist Rose Marie Cromwell (b. 1980), this ICA Miami survey brings together her most recent body of work in which she applies her own interpretation to the tradition of landscape photography. Reflecting on identity, coming-of-age, and familial relationships, the series of photographs showcased in the exhibition follows the artist, her mother, and young daughter on a journey through the American West. Visually compelling photographs contend with the complex history of the region and the legacy of artistic depictions of landscape, juxtaposing the artist’s deeply personal endeavor with broader social and ecological concerns.
Zilia Sánchez: Topologías / Topologies
April 20 - October 13, 2024
This comprehensive survey spans more than four decades of output from Zilia Sánchez (b. 1926), a singular voice in postwar Latin American modernism and geometric abstraction. Born in Havana, Cuba, Sánchez was part of a group of painters that sought to leave behind figurative painting and mobilize abstraction during a turbulent time for the country. An underrated artist of her generation, Sánchez has developed a painterly practice over seven decades, which encompasses a broad range of styles and themes, from testing new abstract languages to complex formal investigations.
The exhibition features the artist’s best known shaped canvas paintings, through which she has explored formal concerns while also subtly dealing with social issues, including gender and feminism. Her ICA Miami exhibition also includes a significant number of her earlier works, including her abstract paintings in bright hues and geometric shapes created in the 1950s while living in Cuba. The exhibition additionally gathers for the first time a robust collection of her Afrocubanos series, depicting abstracted stylized figures and alluding to ritual practices and religious effigies.
Huguette Caland: Outside the Line (1970-84)
May 3 - October 6, 2024
Marking the debut solo presentation in an American museum for Lebanese artist Huguette Caland (1931-2019), this ICA Miami exhibition brings together paintings from Caland’s Bribes de Corps series and associated works. The exhibition explores the artist’s preoccupation with the body and formal experimentation in drawing and abstract painting. Often using her own body as a subject, Caland transforms the body’s curves and orifices into abstractions – sometimes rendering it indistinguishable – therefore subverting idealized portrayals of the female form. Bribes de Corps reflects the balance between Caland’s celebration of the female form as well as her awareness of the ways in which the body is subjected to political and violent forces.
Toward the Celestial: ICA Miami's Collection at 10 Years
May 3 - October 6, 2024
To mark ICA Miami’s 10th anniversary, the museum presents a major exhibition that reflects upon the growth of its exhibitions and collection, serving as both a record of the museum’s program and an index of current and contemporary art. The exhibition is a thematic presentation featuring pairings of seminal works from the museum’s collection—by artists including Dan Flavin, Ed & Nancy Kienholz, Albert Oehlen, and Betye Saar—with new commissions and recent acquisitions of works by Mercedes Azpilicueta, Loriel Beltran, George Condo, Daniel Lind Ramos, Nicolas Party, and Meghan Rooney, among many others.
